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
| 1968 | born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| 1993 | Bachelor of Interior Design, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture |
| 1998 | Master of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture |
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Awards
| 2006 | IPA - 1st place Landscape Division |
| Photolucida Critical Mass Winner, Portland, Oregon |
| Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photo Annual |
| 2005 | IPA - 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 |
| 2004 | International 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 |
| 2003 | Honorable Mention, World In Focus, Seattle, USA |
| Grand Prize, PhotoLife Magazine, Image International, 2002 |
| 2002 | Honorable Mention, Fifteenth Annual Miniature Show, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Canada |
| 1998 | MAA Medal, Architectural Thesis Prize |
| 1993 | ASID Yale R. Burge Award, Best International Student Portfolio in Interior Design |
Exhibitions
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 |
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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 |
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