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Bradley Burkhart
www.burkhart-sculptor.com
Artist Name: Bradley Burkhart
Artist Name: Bradley Burkhart (www.burkhart-sculptor.com)
Title of Piece # 1: The Mermaid & the Minotaur
Media: high-fired clay relief
Dimensions: 22”H x 14”W
Retail Price: $1,199 + tax
Title of Piece # 2: Enoch in the Slipstream of Time
Media: high-fired clay relief
Dimensions: 22”H x 14”W
Retail Price: $1,199 + tax
Title of Piece # 3: Khadgavisana Gatha
(Sanskrit for Rhinoceros Sutra, a series of verses which discuss both the perils of community life and the benefits of solitude, almost all of which end with the admonition that seekers should wander alone like rhinoceros.)
Media: high-fired clay relief
Dimensions: 22”H x 14”W
Retail Price: $1,199 + tax
Title of Piece # 4: Aufklaerung
(German for to clarify/enlighten = renaissance)
Media: high-fired clay relief
Dimensions: 22”H x 14”W
Retail Price: $1,199 + tax
Title of Piece #5: The Enlightened Tiger Story
Media: high-fired clay relief
Dimensions: 10”H x 12”W
Retail Price: $499 + tax
Title of Piece #6: The Crown Prince’s Folly on the Other Side of the Moon
Media: high-fired clay relief
Dimensions: 10”H x 12”W
Retail Price: $499 + tax
Artist’s Statement: I have chosen to develop a style of art with little precedent in modern aesthetic vernacular. I ignore our idea of the human as divided into mind and body, and of the human as separate from nature. My work goes through three phases. I start with intuitive sketching, which results in formal sketches, then translate the sketches to final clay relief panels. Finally the pieces are named in group discussions to reveal the unique message each has to tell us.
Artist’s Bio: Bradley Burkhart was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1949. He has lived in California for most of his adult life—first in San Francisco and most recently in San Diego. He attended Kalamazoo College where he graduated with a major in art and a minor in physics. He later received a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Michigan. As an undergraduate, the artist traveled extensively in Europe and was profoundly impressed by Renaissance and medieval artists. He was struck by the change of human consciousness from one of spiritual orientation to one of intellectual orientation. More recently, he has been influenced by the writings of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Leonard Schlain (Art and Physics, The Goddess and the Alphabet), and Riane Eisler (The Blade and the Chalice), which address the reintegration of intuition with rationality, as well as the writings of Suzi Gablick (Has Modernism Failed and The Reenchantment of Art) about the lack of meaning in modern art. The artist also has a persevering interest in the relationship of nature/ecology that has led him to become a leader in native habitat restoration in California. He formerly taught native plant landscaping classes at San Diego Botanic Garden (then Quail Botanical Gardens) and his students propagated and planted many of the plants now in the native section of the Garden. His art and restoration work both address the deep sense of alienation from self and nature that exists today.
Photos: Rachel Cobb |
