Need a lunch break? Head over to the UVa Art Museum today from 12:00-1:00pm for a free talk by contemporary artist Tom Burckhardt.
Burckhardt’s paintings, made of oil on fabricated cast plastic supports, blur divisions between abstract and representational art. Often, his works evoke the psychological phenomenon known as “pareidolia,” in which a person believes they randomly encounter the image of an object or a person, such as a face found in the clouds or a rock formation.
The museum is hosting this focused exhibition in conjunction with Burckhardt’s UVa Arts Board residency. The focus of the residency is working with studio art students to create an artistic interpretation of the Brooks Natural History Museum, which was located in UVa’s Brooks Hall from 1877 through the 1940s.
This event is FREE and open to the public. For information, please call 434-243-2050 or email museumoutreach@virginia.edu. The exhibit of his paintings will be on display through June 3.
