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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Tamarisk and Clam Auto-Fossilization Memorial by Emily Budd, Image 1.

    Emily Budd

    Tamarisk and Clam Auto-Fossilization Memorial, 2024

    Found object, cast bronze

    26 x 20 x 11 in

  2. phone rang blocked call by Caralea Cole, Image 1.

    Caralea Cole

    phone rang blocked call, 2018

    Archival Inkjet Mural

    47.5 x 37 in

  3. Redlining by Elizabeth Blau, Image 1.

    Elizabeth Blau

    Redlining, 2012

    Acrylic on canvas

    36 x 72 x 2 in

  4. Portrait of MC as corpse by Candice Lin, Image 1.

    Candice Lin

    Portrait of MC as corpse, c. 2010

    Watercolor and ink on paper

  5. Hotpearlmag vs. Viciousingreen by Shawn Hummel, Image 1.

    Shawn Hummel

    Hotpearlmag vs. Viciousingreen, 2007

    Automotive paint on aluminum c-print on aluminum

    24 x 24 in

  6. Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XIII by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XIII, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    30 x 20 in

  7. Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XII by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XII, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    20 x 30 in

  8. Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series I by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series I, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    30 x 20 in

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About the artist

Thomas Burke

American

b. 1978

Burke was born in Buffalo, New York. In 2002 he graduated from UNLV with a BFA. Critics have described his style as a continuation of Op Art – “Burke treats Op as a springboard into something bigger and bolder and more muscular” (David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, Feb 27, 2015) – but the artist himself downplays that association. “I’d rather be taken for a formalist than a practitioner of Op-art,” he said in the commentary for the show that Pagel was reviewing. (Dutch Jailbreak). In 2011 he was quoted as saying, “In simplest terms, I think my contribution is an idea about what makes good design in painting ... Utopian and psychedelic … accidentally mesmerizing, spatially ambiguous, sexy plastic painting.”  Burke has used illusionary effects in his work throughout his career, making a flat image appear to curve out or in, or warp to one side. He generates the shapes in a computer before transferring them to the work surface.