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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Maternal Instincts (for BRee) by Kyla Hansen, Image 1.

    Kyla Hansen

    Maternal Instincts (for BRee), 2018

    Ceramic stoneware, lights

    24 x 22 x 6 in

  2. Fragments from Las Vegas (diptych) by Julieta Gil, Image 2.

    Julieta Gil

    Fragments from Las Vegas (diptych), 2017

    Archival pigment print on Moab Entrada Rag

    40 x 20 in

  3. Mermaid Parade in Joshua Tree (costume) by Aaron Sheppard, Image 1.

    Aaron Sheppard

    Mermaid Parade in Joshua Tree (costume), 2016

    Mixed media

    145.5 x 39 x 8.5 in

  4. Spring Handbag for Cobblestone by Branden Koch, Image 1.

    Branden Koch

    Spring Handbag for Cobblestone, 2011

    Oil on canvas

    50 x 40 x 1 in

  5. Channel by Chad Brown, Image 2.

    Chad Brown

    Channel, 2007

    Oil on canvas

    18.25 x 27 x 1.75 in

  6. Panoptic Liger I by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Panoptic Liger I, 2005

    Acrylic

    23.75 x 35.75 in

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

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XX, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    15 x 30 in

  8. To Mahan-Iran 3 by Edda Renouf, Image 2.

    Edda Renouf

    To Mahan-Iran 3, 1975

    Graphite and incised marks on paper

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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.