Ryan Burkhart teaches printmaking and foundations and directs Flying Horse Editions, the Fine Arts Press of UCF. Ryan Burkhart joined the department in 2001. He publishes his own books and prints as well as other books and prints by leading contemporary artists and authors. Ryan Burkhart got his MFA in 2000 from Texas Tech University where he was studying under Fellowship. He received his BFA with distinction from the Ohio State University.
Ryan Burkhart explores the landscape from an aerial point of view. The artist uses his imagination to survey abstract shapes and forms and relate it back to the landscape that can be seen below when we are flying in an airplane. The total variety of images in the paintings of Ryan Burkhart keeps a viewer enthralled. The studio practice of Ryan Burkhart circles around drawing and painting by appealing to a sense of impulsiveness and straightforwardness with the paint media that is appealing to him. The most recent works by Ryan Burkhart were made out of a sense of good humor and poetics. The project evolved in nature into an exploration of space through composition, color, balance and gesture into humorous and vibrant pieces of work. The images created by Ryan Burkhart stimulate the imagination.
Ryan Burkhart has exhibited his art work all over Europe and the United States since 1995. Many of the arts by Ryan Burkhart are available in public collections such as The Texas Tech Museum of Art, Lubbock, Texas, The University of Wisconsin, Madison., The Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea , The Frans Masereel Centrum for Printmaking, Kasterlee, Belgium, The Royal Academy of Art, Antwerp, Belgium, and Seacourt Press. Bangor, Northern Ireland. New American Paintings, Vol. 36 published his one of-a-kind prints. The images by Ryan Burkhart are in the collections of the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium and Seacourt Print Workshop, N. Ireland. Some important paintings of Him are Stalactite I, Stalactite II, From Friend to Sea and Soil.
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