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Ron Burkhardt
www.ronburkhardt.com
ARTIST@RONBURKHARDT.COM
Artist Ron Burkhardt has created the word "Notism," to define what he sees as the modern phenomenon of handwriting as relic. This unique genre of contemporary American art fuses abstract semiotics and organic writing to record symbols, words and cultural artifacts even as they fade from our sight.
The birth of “Notism” began when Burkhardt was recording on sheets of blank paper, a diary of notes of what he needed to do each day, people he needed to see, phone numbers, addresses and whether tasks were completed. Writing in whatever pen or pencil was handy; each page became an organized but free-spirited conglomeration of colors, scrawls and designs. In this way he realized he was developing a personal history of his days, his thoughts, and his individual spontaneous way of tackling the mundane and necessary activities...
Burkhardt's obsessive assaults on blank space, imbued with his compulsive detail, depict a city-dweller’s incessant drive to harness the information overload of modern society. His intuitive work confers an ordered power on the daily chaos and confusion of our multi-tasking, computer-driven world.
“Notism” exalts, even as it obscures, the power of private thoughts expressed in hand-written text--its style, texture, intensity, range, dynamism, estheticism, depth, and the primal exuberance of documented memories.
His paintings and concepts also connote the eventual non-existence ("not-ism") of life as it drifts slowly into the distant black hole of the past: even as our memories and achievements surround us with grace and aesthetic richness.
Ron Burkhardt’s work documents the last vestiges of human writing and its attendant beauty. Its mysterious, spiritual qualities reveal symbolic shapes and forms while exploring the common chord in us all--a bond Burkhardt manifests in mixed media, acrylics, oil, and pen and ink on paper, canvas, or installations using refrigerator doors and computers that form potent "anti-tech" statements.
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2010 Fisher Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, Urban Graffiti Show "From The Block to the Brush".
2009 "Against the Grain" Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, NY.
2009 “Project Ethos” Exhibition & Event at Avalon & BardotHollywood, CA.
2009 Notism Painting Exhibit at Water Mill Museum, Water Mill, Hamptons, NY.
2009 Art Auction at Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach, California to Benefit Beta Foster Care, Irvine, California.
2009 Burkhardt's Art Exhibit, St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach, California.
2009 "Wed. Abbreviated" Acquired for Permanent Collection - Museum of Coral Springs, FL.
2009 Featured in Artists To Watch in 2009 Section of ART and living Magazine Winter Issue.
2008 One Man Show at Land Rover U.S. Headquarters, New York.
2008 1-Man Show “Retrospective 2001-2008," Marion Meyer Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2008 One-Man Show, Paul Fisher Gallery, The Flamingo Building, West Palm Beach, Florida.
2008 Named One of "Two New Art Stars" by ART and living Magazine,.
2008 "The World Within" Auctioned byPhillips de PuryGallery New York, NY.
2008 Notism and Conceptual Art Exhibit, City Place Tower South, West Palm Beach, Florida.
2008 One-Man Show "Writing's On The Wall" Hampton Road Gallery,Southampton, New York.
2008--July. Encaustic Work Exhibit at Water Mill Museum, Hamptons, New York.
2008--July. Mixed Media Work on Exhibit, Art Gallery at Quogue Library, Quogue, New York
Ron Burkhardt has had 30 exhibitions in the last 8 years.
He has also had a successful career as an author and advertising/marketing executive.
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist