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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Untitled by Brent Holmes, Image 1.

    Brent Holmes

    Untitled, 2021

    Video

  2. Book by Alexa Hoyer, Image 2.

    Alexa Hoyer

    Book, 2015

    Archival pigmented print on Dibond

    43 x 54.75 x 1.75 in

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

    Candice Lin

    Portrait of MC as corpse, c. 2010

    Watercolor and ink on paper

  4. The Good Day by Carrie Jenkins, Image 2.

    Carrie Jenkins

    The Good Day, 2005

    Acrylic and Graphite on paper

    36.25 x 19 in

  5. Lazy Daze by Robert Acuña, Image 1.

    Robert Acuña

    Lazy Daze, 2005

    Acrylic and metal flake on wood panel

    60 x 60 x 1.75 in

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

    Michael Ogilvie

    Panoptic Liger X, 2005

    Acrylic

    24 x 30 in

  7. Panoptic Liger VII by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Panoptic Liger VII, 2005

    Acrylic

    24 x 30 in

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

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series X, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    20 x 30 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.