STEPHEN BURT

(207) 773-1691

email: stburt@gwi.net

 

Artist's Statement

The works I create are a result of a labor-intensive meditation exploring the evocative history of images and the passage of time. I am compelled by images that express and give form to the conflicts and desires of humanity; that suggest in their essence the possibility of transcendence from the present state. It is this insistent possibility that I wish to call upon by using the body and landscape as visual seduction, drawing the viewer into a psychologically complex reading beyond expected satisfactions

Education

1991 State University of New York at Purchase, M.F.A.
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A.
1983 - 84 Berklee School of Music

Exhibitions

2003 Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME ­ Desire and Conflict
2001 Janus - Russian-American Center for the Arts, Brookline, MA - Unsettling Myths
1999 Douglas Arts Common, Douglas, MA - Dreamtide
1995 Benson Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - Solo Exhibit of Prints
1992 Alexander Gallery, New York, NY - Three Young Future Majors
1986 Carr Haus, Providence, RI - (two person show)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 Hay Gallery, Portland, ME ­ Botanicals
Galeyrie
, Falmouth, ME - Expressions in Mark-Making
Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND ­ 33rd Annual Paper Works Exhibition
Maryland Federation of Art
, Annapolis, MD ­ Small Works 2004
2003 Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME ­ Gallery Artists
2002 South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA - Re-Figured
2001 Kaelin Gallery, Boston, MA - The RISD Alumni Exhibition
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL - Figurative Works Competition 2001
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA - 2001 National Competition
Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL - 28th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition
2000 Gallery 5 North, Boston, MA - RISD on Point
1999 New York Public Library, New York, NY - Sight/Insight- Visual Commentaries on the Physical World
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ - 43rd Annual National Juried Print Exhibition
1998 Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA - Out of the Studio
1997 Lenore Grey Gallery, Providence, RI - Summer Group Show
1996 Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Summer Faculty Show and Work on Extended Loan.
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA - Faculty Exhibit
1995 Lenore Grey Gallery, Providence, RI - Summer Group Show
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - Faculty Exhibit
1993 County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ - Faculty Exhibit
1992 County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ ­ Twenty-Three Teaching Artists
1991 SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY - Graduate Thesis Exhibit.
SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY - Graduate Exhibit
1990 SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY - Graduate Exhibit
1989 SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY - Graduate Exhibit
1987 Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - Thesis Exhibit
G. Sanders Fine Art, Daytona Beach, FL
1986 G. Sanders Fine Art, Daytona Beach, FL
Fleet National Bank, Providence, RI

Selected Collections

The New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Fogg - Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, SUNJ, New Brunswick, NJ
The Providence Public Library, Providence, RI
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Awards

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2003
Purchase Prize, 43rd Annual National Juried Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

Bibliography

Words and Images, 2003 Edition. Pub. by University of Southern Maine ­ Featured Artist
Josh Rogers "Apocalypse Wow", The Portland Phoenix, May 2, 2003
Staff "Painter Burt wins grant," Maine Sunday Telegram, Feb. 23, 2003
Nigrosh, Leon "Waterworld," The Worcester Phoenix, Jan. 15, 1999
Bischoff, Dan "Individual is Stronger than Group at Clinton Print Exhibition," The Sunday Star Ledger
June 20, 1999
Staff "Hunterdon Museum to Host National Print Exhibition," Hunterdon Marketplace, June 2, 1999
The Journal of New Jersey Poets Vol. XIV No. 2 Autumn 1992 Featured Artist.

 

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