Join artist Tom Burtonwood in conversation with arts writer and critic Susan Snodgrass, as they discuss Burtonwood’s current installation at 21c Chicago, Recurring. 

In Recurring, Tom Burtonwood presents three elements of his ongoing project “A Cube is a Rectangle”, featuring a large-gridded wall installation of over 200 of Burtonwood’s signature “Würfel” drawings. Adjacent to the gallery, two large “Würfels” crafted from mixed media materials, including hydrocal, paint, soil, and natural fibers, hang side by side. Accompanying these two-dimensional works is a new single-channel stop-frame animation of his unfolding cube motif. 

 

Tom Burtonwood (b. United Kingdom) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist, curator and educator. He/they are Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He/they holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University (USA) and a BA from Loughborough College of Art (UK). 

Recent venues presenting Burtonwood's work include 21c Museum Hotel Chicago, Chicago; Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; Taiteen Talo and Tramhall, both Turku, Finland; MOM Art Space, Hamburg, Germany; MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki, Finland; Material, Chicago; The Donut Shop, Chicago; DesignLab Gallery, Pasadena, CA; Dock 6, Chicago, IL; Monaco, St. Louis, MO; Platform, Evanston; Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL 

 

Susan Snodgrass is a Chicago-based critic and Senior Editor at ARTMargins Online, devoted to contemporary art in East-Central Europe. She writes about contemporary art, material art practices, and the built environment. She is the author of Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs (Half Letter Press, 2019); her articles have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Textile: Cloth and Culture, among others. She is a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her blog, In/Site: Reflections on the Art of Place, and a finalist for the 2019 Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Arts Journalist Award.