David Burdeny - Pictures, Art, Photography

David Burdeny

Background Information about David Burdeny

Introduction

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.

Bio

1968born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1993Bachelor of Interior Design, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture
1998Master of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture

Awards

2006IPA - 1st place Landscape Division
Photolucida Critical Mass Winner, Portland, Oregon
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photo Annual
2005IPA - Non Professional Photographer of the Year: Nature
IPA-1st Place Nature Non Professional
IPA- 2nd Place- Nature Non Professional
IPA- 3rd Place- Landscape Fine Art Non Professional
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photo Annual
2004International B+W Spider Awards Outstanding Achievement: Amateur Photographer of the Year
International B+W Spider Awards Outstanding Achievement: Architectural (Amateur)
International B+W Spider Awards Outstanding Achievement: Nature (Amateur)
International B+W Spider Awards Outstanding Achievement: Fine Art (Amateur)
International B+W Spider Awards Honorable Mention: Fine Art (Amateur)
Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photo Annual
2003Honorable Mention, World In Focus, Seattle, USA
Grand Prize, PhotoLife Magazine, Image International, 2002
2002Honorable Mention, Fifteenth Annual Miniature Show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Canada
1998MAA Medal, Architectural Thesis Prize
1993ASID Yale R. Burge Award, Best International Student Portfolio in Interior Design

Exhibitions

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