Read Rebecca Rafferty's review in Afterimage.
Enjoy a gallery of photographs from the Charles E. Burchfield Award!
These remarks were given by Burchfield Penney executive director Tony Bannon as part of the Charles E. Burchfield Award being given to United States Poet Laureate Charles Wright on May 27, 2015 at the Burchfield Penney.
Read what Buffalo State president Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner shared on Tumblr!
Two of my favorite landscape painters are Paul Cézanne and Charles Burchfield. I like Cézanne because of the way he painted – those hooks and dabs of color, everything almost individual until you step back and it all coalesces. And I like Burchfield because of what he painted.
To immerse yourself in reading the work of poet Charles Wright is to move from the fragmentary, keenly observed particulars of the natural world and the consciousness of everyday experience to a parallel, meditative track that seems not so much a derivation of that experience than an uncovering of the deep structure of language and human thought that lies embedded within it.
The Burchfield Penney Art Center presents its annual Charles E. Burchfield Award to Charles Wright, the current U.S. poet laureate, in recognition of his “outstanding achievements in the arts which express a commitment to environmental sustainability” at an awards event and dinner.
Dove-twirl in the tall grass.
End-of-summer glaze next door
On the gloves and split ends of the conked magnolia tree.
Work sounds: truck back-up beep, wood tin-hammer, cicada, fire horn.
Exhibition at DC Moore Gallery is a Critic's Pick.
Charles Burchfield at DC Moore Gallery is in The New Yorker.