Jeremy Burleson

At NIAD since 2003
Jeremy Burleson

Break the lamp. Don't break the lamp.

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Jeremy Burleson (b. 1981) is a Bay Area Artist who joined NIAD Art Center in 2003. Working primarily with masking tape and paper, he creates lyrical lamp shade sculptures and ink drawings of stacked animals, balloons, food, and figures. Burleson has exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California, the Museum of Northern California Art, BAMP/FA, and Ruth's Table. His work is in the permanent collections of the OMCA, Clif Bar and Company, BAMP/FA, and MAD Musée. 

With masking tape and paper, Jeremy Burleson has built a flood of highly detailed medical instruments – hyper-realistic and quasi-workable versions of stethoscopes, ventilators and syringes. Burleson also works out his interest in all things medical on paper, often combining figures with rows of bottles, syringes and balloons. His focus on medically related subject matter walks a fine line between fascination and repulsion.

Also, using paper, but rolling it tightly to create a tube of sorts, Burleson crafts lyrical lamp shapes. Vaguely allegorical, the structures are designed to hang from the ceiling, but some are large enough to be placed on the floor. This interest in lamps may have originated during an accident while on a shopping trip to a local warehouse store.

Throughout all of Burleson’s work runs the thread of strange theatricality created by early pop artists like Claes Oldenburg and Red Grooms.

Jeremy Burleson
NIAD Art Center
2016
Talking Heads: Figuration From Northern California Ceramicists
organized by Susan Alexander and NIAD Art Center
Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA)
2018
Flying Like A Rock
Public Annex Portland Oregon
2017
Fonds Duvel-Moortgat
organized by MADmusée
Théâtre de Liège
2016
Celebrating A Vision: Art & Disability
SFO Terminal Three
2016
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Oakland, CA
Clif Bar and Company
Emeryville, CA
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, CA
MAD Musée
Belgium