Guy Burchak - guyburchak@hotmail.com
Born: Massachusetts, 1955,
and traveling from then until now.
AWARDS
August 1999, Virgo-99, a Virtual Art Competition
View from the Rawshan, # 53
• FIRST PLACE WINNER
• BEST REPRESENTATIVE WORK
• ALSO "PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD"
LINK http://geminidom.com/GemArt/virgo-99/2ctgroom2.html
ART CALENDAR
Selected as a winner "Quarterly National Juried Centerfold Competion"
Art "Red Sea Relief IV", published,
December 1999 issue of ART CALENDAR.
AVAANTI-www.txarts.net/avaa
Selected to be featured in the AVAANTI, APRIL/MAY 2000
Newsletter for Austin Visual Arts Association, published by monthly.
Selected as the winner of a Scholarship with
"Art
Instruction Schools" Minneapolis Minnesota, 1973
EXHIBITIONS (Single Shows)
December 1998, THE THIRD JEDDAH EXHIBITION,
Rabya, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Under the Patronage of
HRH Princess Al Gohara Bint Khalid Bin
Massaad Bin Abdulaziz
January 1997, THE GREENHOUSE EXHIBITION,
Rabya, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Under the
Patronage of
HRH Princess Jawaher Bint Majed Bin Abdulaziz
May 1993, OLD JEDDAH,
Art Vision Gallery,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
EXHIBITIONS (Group)
October 1999
Austin Visual Arts Association
Jurried Exhibition "RED OCTOBER"
April 1999
Austin Visual Arts Association
"AVAA's Members Exhibit"
April 2000
Chisholm Trail Art Gallery
May 2000
"AVAA's Members Exhibit"
July 2000
"AVAANTI 6" Jurried Exhibition of AVAANTI winners
LINKS
GemArt
Art.Net
JOLAF
Electronic
Cottage Gallery
Eaglewing
Enterprises
Jo‘l Ochs
EDUCATION
Parsons School of Design - New York, New York. - 1975
Fleming College - Florence Italy - 1974
"Art Instruction Schools" Minneapolis Minnesota, 1973
STATEMENT
Art, for me, is an ongoing conceptual
endeavor.
I began painting while living in Spain at the age of eight,
influenced by the culture, antiquities, and sensory experiences of foreign
places.
Since that time, an expatriate lifestyle and a love of the road has taken
me to the
Middle and Far East, Europe, The British Isles, and throughout my native United
States. All of these places have touched me, and left their mark on my work.
Although I am often found behind
a solitary easel, I do not work in isolation;
I paint with Vermeer, Rembrant, Cezanne, and Johns every time I lift my
brush--my memory of the minutest detail of their works informing my own.
My study of artists, both my predecessors and my contemporaries, will never
end.
My technique reflects all of
these experiences and influences. Although my work is figurative, I find abstraction
in detail. Generally I use a muted palette, reserving livelier colors to focus
the composition. A fascination with texture and multilayered compositions
directs my work--I usually begin with a charcoal drawing as a base, and gradually
build up layers of pigment which
interact in complex ways. Each canvas becomes the expression of two contradictory
impulses: the freely gestural, typically expressed with a slurry of wet, random
gesture, and the highly controlled, typically expressed via figurative pictorial
representation. These impulses complement through opposition, creating an
exciting rhythmic tension. This use of acrylic, charcoal, and a variety of
textural fillers is constantly evolving in fresh, new ways, and the art does
not stop with the canvas. I also like to work on the frames, integrating them
with the piece.But my most ambitious
project to date is not to be found on canvas nor carved in stone--it is myself.
The strides I make personally are quickly translated to the canvas. After
all, today's epiphany is tomorrow's picture.
