Gregory Lind Gallery exhibits a series of paintings by Tom Burckhardt
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Gregory Lind Gallery is presenting Psychodiagnostik, a series of paintings by Tom Burckhardt. Burckhardt’s goal is to simultaneously infect and dismantle the purity expected from abstraction, while de-specifying the figural elements. He is interested in cultivating the tenuous relationship between “creative seeing” and the randomness of nature. His recent works explore the line between figuration and abstraction, with an emphasis on how our perceptual biases impact us. The psychological concept of pareidolia, in which figuration or faces are read in abstract visual phenomena (as in Rorschach blots) is key to these works, which encompass the nature of perception and empathetic reaction. Burckhardt works with oil paint on linen, but has developed a number of adaptations, such as cutting commercial stretched bars with