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Grandpa Is Watching
red chalk

After Andrea
ink on Cafe Peacock napkin

Blue
watercolor ink wax pastel

Through A Glass Darkly
ink pastel graphite

Beneath The Mask
watercolor ink graphite

The Priest
ink pastel graphite

The Thinker
ink

The Gatekeeper
ink graphite

Life Is But A Dream
ink graphite

Collateral Damage
ink

Bamboo Doodling
ink

Lydia
ink graphite

Never Ever Forget
ink graphite

Helga Lies Down
ink

Darkness
ink

Emily
red chalk

Gretchen Grunewald
graphite

Remembering September
ink

Grandma
ink graphite

Dear Ludwig
ink pastel graphite

Big Daddy
watercolor ink pastel graphite

Eye Candy
ink graphite

Listening To Too Much Mahler
ink

Helga Poses
watercolor ink graphite

Inside The Hood
watercolor ink graphite

Errant Anatomy
ink graphite

Ecce Homo
ink

Ivan The Grandmaster
graphite

PTSD
graphite

Rhythm
red chalk

Weight
red white chalk

Helga Sits
ink

Just Sketchin’
ink

Artist Statement

“I really have nothing new or special to say, nor any precious words to convey. The drawings should speak for themselves.”

Reviews

“Burchess’ figurative drawings combine both the fine artistry of a proficient master with the surreal quality unearthed in pursuit of the subconscious mind.” (Beth Miller, Gallery Director, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland)

“Burchess’ drawings are monumental and riveting… the kind of images that draw people closer, further inside… his faces unsparingly confront gnarled complexities… in line drawings and ultra-realistic portraits that convey both the body and mind’s wrack and ruin… but the paradoxical effect of great art is to create something of strength and possible hope.” (Ed Barna, veteran arts critic for the Rutland Herald)

Exhibitions / Studies

Burchess studied anatomy/drawing in New York at the Art Students League, National Academy School of Art & Design, School of Visual Arts (multiple exhibitions / red dot awards), exhibiting with New York University Galleries, Silvermine, Guild Hall (Easthampton), galleries in Southampton, Massachusetts, Maine, California and Oregon.

Locally, his artwork and black-and-white photography have exhibited at Rutland City Hall, Chandler Center for the Arts, AVA Gallery, Artistree, Castleton, Chaffee Art Center, Maclure Library, Night Owl, and his poetry readings featured at Book King, Bookstock, Killington Arts Guild, Wildwood, Norman Williams Public Library.