David Burdeny

SLAT ART

David Burdeny’s contemplative seascapes conquer the three dimensional realm in his Slat Art editions. This remarkable, two-layered technique presents the artist with a range of new opportunities to portray his subject. A second layer is split into strips and mounted above the initial photo to create a stunning visual effect that impresses and entices. In the tension between calmness and movement, the true power of the vast ocean is revealed, giving the viewer a completely new experience. We’ve never seen the sea like this before!

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, David Burdeny (1968) has degrees in both Interior design and a Masters in Architecture. At the age of 12, David started to photograph the prairie landscape and make his own black and white prints in a makeshift darkroom that also served as his bedroom closet. Primarily self taught, his architecture and design background greatly influences his penchant for simple exacting photographs of sky, horizon and the marks humankind leaves behind. David purposefully photographs in poor light and near darkness. He uses unusually long exposures to see that which our eyes can not. Moving beyond the literal, his images have been described as ominous, haunting, beautiful and meditative.

Statement

"Drift" is a series of moving and still images. Collected during travels through Canada, France, Japan, England, Belgium and the USA, these photographs catalogue the shifting light and color of the world's oceans and shorelines. Using a variety of analogue and digital mediums that closely parallel racetrack photo finish technology, the images invert conventional photographic motion/time relationships. Motion is rendered still and still is rendered in motion, graphically revealing the underlying rhythms and patterns of the physical world while tracing our navigation through it.

Solo Exhibitions

2008	Greenland/Antarctica, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2007	Shorelines, Young Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
	New Photographs, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
	Drift, Exposure 2007, Gallery; Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary Alberta, Canada
2006	Shorelines, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Gallery: Davis Waldron, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
	Photographs, 3x10 Seattle, Washington, USA
2005	Shorelines, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2004	Hollinger Collins Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
	Sur-Mer, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver Canada
	Gateway Theatre, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia
2003	Interval, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver Canada
1996	Kathmandu Urban Images, Gallery 111, Winnipeg, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2006	By the Sea, Mariners Museum, Newport News , Virginia
	2006 International Exhibition of fine Art Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado
	International Photography Gathering in Aleppo, Syria
	Art For Aids, Invited Group show with: Nick Brandt, Nadav Kandar, Jillian Edelstein
	Annie Leibowitz and others. Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
	IPA Best of Show, Farmani Gallery Los Angeles, California
	Here are Your Waters, Green Foundation, Seoul, Korea
	Photographs by Burdeny, McNair, Holownia, Hollinger Collins Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2005	Hollinger Collins Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
	Indian Hill Gallery of Fine Photography, Wells Vermont, USA
2004	Hollinger Collins Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
	Summer at the Gallery, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver
	Keep Expanding, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver Canada
2003	Terrain, Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	World In Focus, Juried by Carl Gronquist, Cathryn Buchanan, Seattle, USA
	Peripheries, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, Canada
	David Evans and David Burdeny
	Artropolis 2003: Curated by Pauline Conley, Vancouver Canada
	Juried Group Show, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
	Fifteenth Annual Juried Miniature Show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Canada