Posts Tagged ‘canvas’
Anxiety Room
Of course it’s my luck that Jon would make a rare appearance across the pond, and I’m still stuck across the country. On February 12th, 2009, Jon and pop artist Jim Avignon opened Anxiety Room at Brooklyn, NY’s Factory Fresh. The show continues to explore a theme familiar to Burgerman fans (as seen in sculptures like WorryKnott and the London installation, Anxiety Wall). In addition to many paintings, drawings and masks, the duo collaborated on a live painting called Anxiety Broom. I got the “Too Many Emails” drawing! The rest of what’s still available can be found here. Check out a few work-in-progress photos sent by Jon at ToyCyte and pics from the show on Flickr here. Videos below the photos, too.
Open Space Tote Bag
In 2008, New York’s OPEN SPACE asked 125 artists from around the world to donate their time and talent to reducing the amount of wasted plastic bags (1,000 per family every year) by creating custom-designed tote bags. The bags were displayed and sold through OPEN SPACE from April 12th through May 3rd. 100% of the profits from the sales of the show went to the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a New York-based organization committed to environmental education and advocacy. Jon’s tote bag is sold out.
OPEN SPACE was started by Kalene Rivers and Daniel Weise to combine their shared passions for art, culture and design. The space is home to thundercut, an art and design studio, SHERBERT Magazine, an independently published art and literature magazine, a gallery featuring the works of artists they find inspiring, and an event space where they can host events they find important and interesting.
Pinkcess Shopping Bag
In August of 2008, Singapore’s Dooperdoo ran a sale that offered a bonus artist tote bag with the purchase of three t-shirts. Jon has a handful of Dooperdoo designs. Now you can get the bag straight from Jon sans shirts for £10 UK and £15 non-UK including postage. The bag is made and printed in Singapore by Dooperdoo and is approximately 330×380x70mm. Reusable tote bags are (literally) the new canvas.
Beijing Exhibition
From July 12th through August 12th 2008, Jon showed new paintings and and sculptures at Litou Space in the Chaoyang District of Beijing.
Mini Canvases
These are four 2008 sold-out “high quality canvas prints, signed, dated and delivered with love.” They measured 130×170x10mm and featured Pinkcess, Zippy, Anton and Fluffer.
Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee
Under The Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee was a 2008 group show at Gallery 1988 in LA. Jon’s piece is available from the gallery as a numbered and signed edition of ten. G1988’s second Under The Influence paid tribute to The Beastie Boys.
Duhprishus
Duhphrishus was Jon’s solo exhibition that ran from March through April at ROJO Artspace in Milano, Italy.
Duhprishus will lick the whimwham flutterbyes straight out of your eyes and smear them right back on to the walls. Subject to impulsive, unpredictable lines and cascades of pop colour, come and bear witness to the latest victim of Jon Burgermans’ slight of hand and heavy of head; ROJO® artspace Milano. This will be a full force installation with un-twistable stomachs and detachable parts, which will be available as collector’s items, along with the new monographic book entitled “Gribba Grub” and published by ROJO®.
Blaugallery Canvas Prints
Jon has three high quality prints on canvas at Blaugallery in the BLAUGALLERY III Exclusive Limited Editions series. Each item is 160 x 112 cm and signed and numbered. The three prints are available in an edition of 10 for 800 Euros each.
- On The Corner
- Blue Train
- Pocketless
BlauGallery is a project that is driven by spirit and heart. The main spirit of the BlauGallery is to bring individual art to peoples’ homes in a perfect way. The task is to develop unconventional products that carry this art and make it available to the customer in the highest quality at an acceptable price. Therefore all products of the BlauGallery are sold directly from the producer to the customer via e-commerce. There is no reselling distribution. Jon’s work is available (while it lasts) at Blaugallery (from whence I’ve pilfered these pics…).
Donuts Party
In 2008, DELKOGRAPHIK put on an exhibition about the donut. The popular pastry was used to bring together around 30 artists from across the globe. Over two months, donuts were immortalized by photographers, video directors and designers. “The DONUTS PARTY comes from the real captivation that Delkographic have of the popular clichés from the USA such as, Coke, baseball, cookies and… the DONUT.” Here is Jon’s contribution to the Donuts Party. Jeremyville, Superdeux and many others were also involved.
Here Gallery Christmas Show 2007
Jon had a number of pieces in the 2007 Here Gallery Christmas Show, which also featured Peskimo. Jon’s work ranged from envelopes and paper to cardboard and canvases to digital prints and the hand-made resin sculpture, WorryKnott. You can view all of the work by the artists involved in the show on Here’s Flickr set for the event. I’ve snatched pics of Jon’s pieces from the set for this post to virtually mirror the show. (Hope that’s OK…) Some of the work may still be available from the gallery. Keep tabs on Here here at their blog.
Here is an award winning shop and gallery based in Bristol, UK. Established in 2003, they are a not-for-profit cooperative, with a sister shop in Falmouth. They stock a select range of art books, small press comics and zines, artist made cards, prints, jewelery and plush toys. Their gallery hosts regular exhibitions from local and international artist.
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