Artist Bio

Jean  Burdick is a painter and printmaker and lives and maintains a studio in Bucks County, PA.  Her process involves successive layers of patterns, textures, shapes and colors, beginning with silkscreen printing and enhanced by drawing, painting, printing and experimental mark-making. Elements of the natural world are magnified, overlapped and obscured, reflecting the continual growth and change, which is the touchstone of the natural world.  Burdick received her MFA degree from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and her BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and has worked as a textile designer and an arts educator. Jean is represented by Cerulean Arts Gallery, Philadelphia. She is the recipient of awards and honors including a Visual Artist Residency to the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada in 2004; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Artist/Educator Fellowship Grant in 2007; Artist in Residence, Central Bucks School District in 2015 and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant as an Artist in Residence for the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA in 2017.  Jean has exhibited nationally and is included in numerous corporate, public and private collections. Her work is represented in the collections of Allergan Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ; AtlantiCare/Fox Chase Cancer Care Institute, Cape May, NJ; AtlantiCare Mainland Campus, Galloway, NJ; Yeshiva University, NY and many others.