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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Witness by Natalie Delgado, Image 1.

    Natalie Delgado

    Witness, 2022

    Charcoal, water, and desert wind

    30 x 22 in

  2. You don't know what you've got til it's gone, but I did. No. 3 (Kermit) by Dan45 Hernandez, Image 1.

    Dan45 Hernandez

    You don't know what you've got til it's gone, but I did. No. 3 (Kermit), 2020

    Vintage lunchbox with thermos, Posca acrylic pen, white shirt and tie, vintage Lufthansa junior pen.

    16 x 8 in

  3. Rake by Andreana Donahue, Image 1.

    Andreana Donahue

    Rake, 2015

    Paper, wild Alaskan blueberry residue

    4 x 10 x 6 in

  4. Red Beam (Winter-Summer 2014) by Chris Duncan, Image 3.

    Chris Duncan

    Red Beam (Winter-Summer 2014), 2015

    Direct sunlight and acrylic on fabric

    80 x 54 x 1 in

  5. Glass Pool Inn, 4613 S Las Vegas Blvd by Catherine Borg, Image 1.

    Catherine Borg

    Glass Pool Inn, 4613 S Las Vegas Blvd, 2013

    Chromogenic print between acrylic

    10 x 14 x 1.5 in

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

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XIX, c. 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    20 x 30 in

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

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XI, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    20 x 30 in

  8. Primm Valley Neon Museum One by Anthony Bondi, Image 1.

    Anthony Bondi

    Primm Valley Neon Museum One, 2004

    Collage on paper

    10 x 7.125 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.