Sigrid Burton

Sigrid Burton
Born1951
Pasadena, California, US
EducationColumbia University, Bennington College and University of California, Berkeley
Known forPainting
AwardsFulbright Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Arts Residency
WebsiteSigrid Burton
Sigrid Burton, Asterisms, oil on canvas, 48" x 60", 2019.

Sigrid Burton is an American visual artist, known for semi-abstract paintings that combine atmospheric color fields and allusions to nature and culture.[1][2][3] Her work bears a wide range of influences, including Buddhist cave and Indian miniature paintings, Jain cosmological diagrams, and artists from the Renaissance to modernists such as Kandinsky, Klee and the Color field painters to the California Light and Space movement.[4] Critics have noted the predominance of color over form in her work, sometimes describing her approach as "chromatic expressionism."[5][6]

Burton has had exhibitions at venues including Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, and the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center.[7][8][9] Her work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] Rockefeller Foundation and Palm Springs Desert Museum, among others.[2][11] After being based in New York City, Burton has lived and worked in Pasadena, California since 2013.[4]

  1. ^ Towle, Tony. "Sigrid Burton," Arts Magazine, Summer 1986, p. 111.
  2. ^ a b Frank, Peter. "Sigrid Burton," LA Weekly, April 29, 2005, p. 84.
  3. ^ O'Brien, John David. "Tufenkian Fine Arts, Sigrid Burton," Artillery, March 18, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Olivetti, Katherine. “Pots of Color: The Art of Sigrid Burton,” Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Spring 2014, p. 95. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  5. ^ Kaufman, Jason. "Lyrical Color," Arts & Antiques, February 2003.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Frank99 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Artists Space. "Sigrid Burton, Bruce Colvin, Ellen Phelan," Exhibitions. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  8. ^ Rockefeller Arts Center. Sigrid Burton: New Paintings, Catalogue, Fredonia, NY: Rockefeller Arts Center, State University of New York, 2001.
  9. ^ Carnegie Art Museum. "California Artists from the Mullin Automotive Museum Collection," Press. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  10. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prairie, 1982, Sigrid Burton” Collection. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference CA03 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).