Through observational practice, I reinterpret the natural and man made environment, referencing my landscape photographs recording light, shadow and memory. My work transforms feelings and memories into something tangible, focusing on segments of vistas that reflect what I experienced.
In the studio process, beginning with printing my photo silkscreens, I build each successive layer of pattern, texture and color. I enhance the image by drawing, painting, printing and experimental mark-making. Merging the images from several perspectives gives a closer interpretation of my experiences. Memories of thoughts from particular locations evoke impressions accumulated in the layered images. Each layer magnifies, overlaps, obscures or otherwise enhances the layers that came before.
Reimagining what I have observed, I reference the natural world with its organic and man made structures. The resulting images suggest narratives of unfolding life cycles: birth, growth, death and renewal. These vistas, both rural and urban, are composites of landscapes producing a memoir of places in transition.
Jean Burdick is a painter and printmaker and lives and maintains a studio in Bucks County, PA. Her process involves successive layers of patterns, textures, shapes and colors, beginning with silkscreen printing and enhanced by drawing, painting, printing and experimental mark-making. Elements of the natural world are magnified, overlapped and obscured, reflecting the continual growth and change, which is the touchstone of the natural world.
Burdick received her MFA degree from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and has worked as a textile designer and an arts educator.
She is the recipient of awards and honors including a Visual Artist Residency to the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship Grant; Artist in Residence, Central Bucks School District and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant as an Artist in Residence for the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.
Jean has exhibited nationally and is included in numerous corporate, public and private collections. Her work is represented in the collections of Allergan Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ; AtlantiCare/Fox Chase Cancer Care Institute, Cape May,NJ; AtlantiCare Mainland Campus, Galloway, NJ; Capital Health Medical Center, Hopewell, NJ; Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; Medical Arts Pavillion, University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro, NJ; Mercer Co. Cultural/ Historical Society, NJ; Mercy Health System, Norristown, PA; Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, FL; Philadelphia Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, PA; Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center, Florham Park, NJ; University Medical Center of Princeton, Plainsboro, NJ; and Yeshiva University, New York City, NY.
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MFA, Painting
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
MEd, Art Education
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BFA, Painting
2019
Dottie Sloan Memorial Award for Painting, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2018
Best in Show: Fiber Arts, Ellarslie, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
2017
Artist in Residence, National Endowment for the Arts Grant Art for All, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
First Place, Artworks Annual Print Exhibition, Trenton, NJ
2015
Artist in Residence, Holicong Middle School, Central Bucks School District, PA
2013
Best in Show, Celebration of Art and Life, Hospital of the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Juror’s Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2007
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Award, Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship
2006
Juror’s Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2004
Johnson & Johnson Purchase Prize, 48th Annual National Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Juror’s Award, Mercer County Artists Exhibit, Mercer Co Community College, West Windsor, NJ
2003
Residency in Visual Arts, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
Purchase Award, Mercer County Artists Exhibit, Mercer Co Community College, West Windsor, NJ
2001-2003
MFA Merit Scholarship, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1996
New Jersey Network Grant, awarded for Interdisciplinary Art and Music Program, Newark, NJ
2018
Purcell, Janet, “Transcendence” The Times of Trenton, April 2018
2014
Dube, Ilene,“Artist Jean Burdick With Work to Heal” US 1 News, September 2014
“Bucks County Artist Shows in Princeton” Bucks County Herald, September 2014
“Chapin Gallery Features Jean Burdick” Town Topics, August 2014
2013
Otterbein, Holly, “First Friday Focus” Citypaper, December 2013
2011
Dube, Ilene, “Needed: Lasers, Scalpels-and 600 Pieces of Art” US 1 News, November 2011
Purcell,Janet, “Quintet of Artists Share Work in ‘5 x ‘5," The Times, October 2011
2010
Miller, Lynn, “The Flux of the Natural World” West Windsor & Plainsboro News, January 2010
2008
"'Artists are in their Elements' at Trenton’s Gallery 125," The Times, March 2008
2007
Dube, Ilene, “Layers of Meaning” The Princeton Packet, November 2007
“Navigating Terrains Finds Way to Lawrence” The Times, November 2007
"Embarrassment of Riches" The Princeton Packet, November 2007
2006
Purcell, Janet,“Traces Pairs Two Artists With a Connection” The Times, December 2006
2005
“Trenton City Museum: “TAWA Invitational II” The Bucks County Courier Times, August 2005
“TAWA Exhibit Brings Cutting Edge to Ellarslie” The Times, June 2005
2004
Bischoff, Dan, “Printmakers Chart a Land of New Myths” The Newark Star Ledger, June 2004
Rivera, F.R, “At Mercer, an Artful Shell Game” U.S.1, April 2004
Purcell, Janet “TAWA Works are Diverse and Smartly Displayed” The Times, July 2004
Penn State Health Medical Center Hamden, Hamden, PA
Gan and Lee, Somerville, NJ
Penn Medicine, Radnor, PA
Allergan, Inc, Bridgewater, NJ
AtlantiCare Fox Chase Cancer Care Institute, Cape May, NJ
AtlantiCare Mainland Campus, Galloway, NJ
Capital Health Medical Center, Hopewell, NJ
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Mercer County Cultural and Historical Society, Trenton, NJ
Mercy Health System, Norristown, PA
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Penn Medicine at Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill, NJ
Philadelphia Energy Solutions, Philadelphia, PA
Summit Medical Group MD Anderson Cancer Center, Florham Park, NJ
ShadowTrader Technologies, Haverford, PA
Temple Israel, Croton on Hudson, NY
Penn Medicine at Plainsboro, Plainsboro, NJ
Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Penn State Health Lancaster, Lancaster, PA
Scripps La Jolla II, La Jolla, CA
Represented in Private Collections
Artwrkd Gallery, Newtown, PA
Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County, Doylestown, PA
Frontline Arts, Somerville, NJ
James A. Michener Art Museum, Bucks County Database, Doylestown, PA
National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Starwheel Printers, Philadelphia, PA
2022
Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021
Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Woodloch Lodge, Hawley, PA
2015
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
Pennswood Gallery, Newtown, PA
Rittenhouse 1715 Boutique Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Princeton Medical Arts Pavillion, Plainsboro, NJ
The Chapin School, Princeton, NJ
2013, 2012, 2010
3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011
St Asaph Gallery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
2010
The Silva Gallery of Art, The Pennington School, Pennington, NJ
2007
Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery, The Lawrenceville School Lawrenceville, NJ
2006
Janssen Pharmaceutical/Division of Johnson & Johnson, Titusville, NJ
Life Gallery, E. Williamsburg, NY
2005
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ
2025
Tikkun Olam: An Exhibition on Healing Our World, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, PA
Art and Nature, Trenton Free Public Library, Trenton, NJ
New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA
Winter Impressions, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
2024
Art Endures at Home in Philadelphia, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Arise and Away, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Botanica: An Unlikely Garden, David Scott Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Winter Show, National Association of Women Artists, NYC, NY
TAWA at 45, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Past and Present, Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2022
Raking Light, The Yard, Philadelphia, PA
Out of the Whirlwind; Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Montgomery Community College, Ambler, PA
2021
Homecoming, Frontline Arts, Somerville, NJ
2020
Summer Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
2019
76th Annual Painting Show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
Catalyze, Cambridge Innovation Center, Philadelphia, PA
Art of the State, State Museum of PA, Harrisburg, PA
Beyond Mark-Making, ArtWorks, Trenton, NJ
New Now II, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019-2016
A Celebration of Art and Life, Perelman Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Winter Juried Show, Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Luella Tripp, Juror
Annual Print Exhibition, Artworks, Trenton, NJ
2017
Ellarslie Open, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Starwheel Printers, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
11th Annual Exhibition, Goggleworks, Reading, PA
(catalogue)
Annual Print Exhibit, Print Center of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
Tapestry, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Hope for the Holidays, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2016
Inspired by Nature, Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ
Different Paths, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
215/610 Contemporary Juried Exhibition, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
2015
Impressions: The Art of the Print, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Invitational Exhibition
Intersection, 3rd Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
5 Expressions, Abstract Expressions Gallery, Mt. Holly, NJ
2014
Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
5, Five Artists, Five Visions, Silva Gallery of Art, Pennington, NJ
2013
Art Connections 9, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
PaperWorks, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Invitational
2012
Fresh Impressions, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Snowflake Salon Invitational, Bridge Club, Phlladelphia, PA
Trenton Makes, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Square Foot Art Basel Miami, Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
Water, Water Anywhere, Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
5 x 5, West Windsor Art Council, Princeton Junction , NJ
2010
Reality and Artifice, New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
(catalogue)
Art on Paper, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
2009
New Jersey Green, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ
A Reference for Water, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
2008
Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Inside and Out: Selections from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist Fellows, Maloney Art Gallery, The College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
(catalogue)
2007
Pink at Perkins, The Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Invitational
Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Works on Paper, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
National Printmaking, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2006
National Print Exhibition, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
Phillips’ Mill 77th Annual Exhibition, New Hope, PA
2005
Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
Faculty Show: Mercer County Community College, Artworks Gallery Trenton, NJ
2004
Critical Mass: A Mid Atlantic Exhibition, The 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
American Impressions, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
(catalogue)
Annual Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
TAWA at 25 Exhibition, The Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
(catalogue)
2003
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rosenwald-Wolf Galleries, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Juried Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2002
NorthEast Prints 2002, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
(catalogue)
Annual Print Exhibit, Print Center of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
60th Annual Juried Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
2001
Eyes on Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Works in Progress, Hamilton Hall Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2000
Preserving the Garden: Saving New Jersey Landscape, The Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ and the Nabisco Corporate Gallery, East Hanover, NJ
