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. It’s unclear where his obsession stems from, but it’s obvious that 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’s available work //
exhibition history
Roses are Red, or, See what Kitty can do without fighting the war? organized by Liam Golden // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2023
Lemon Art Work, organized by Seymour Polatin // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2023
Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD // Oakland Museum of California // May 2023
a clearing, organized by Mel Prest // NIAD Main Gallery Exhibition // April 2023
Waking, Breathing, Making! organized by Laura Kamian McDermott // NAID Online Exhibition // February 2023
I Dreamt the Sun Was in My Bed Organized By SF State University’s Fall 2022 Exhibition Design Class // NIAD Online Exhibition // December 2022
NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #1: NIAD is for Animal Lovers ,organized by Dorian Reid // Online Exhibition // November 2022
A Stick In The Snow organized by Joanna and Milo Moyer-Battick // NIAD Online Exhibition // October 2022
Blow Like Magic In Their Face And Vanish organized by James Sterling Pitt // October 2022
Feeling Language, organized by Kate Laster // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // October 2022
Told Through A Line, organized by Risa Lenore // NIAD Online Exhibition // September 2022
Question Mark, organized by Betsy Odom // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2022
I Wanna See All My Friends At Once, organized by Cone Shape Top // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2022
A New Geometry, organized by e bond // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2022
Color as Energy Field, organized by Chinzalée Sonami // NIAD Online Exhibition // June 2022
Auctionauts // NIAD Online Exhibition // March 2022
WIN WIN 10 Live Auction Sneak Preview // NIAD Online Exhibition // March 2022
The Art of Disability Culture // Ruth’s Table, San Francisco // February – May 2022
Eternal Idol, organized by Emily Harris // NIAD Online Exhibition // February 2022
WIN WIN 10 Silent Auction Preview Exhibition // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // February 2022
Murmuration, organized by Alisa Golden // NIAD Online Exhibition // January 2022
Innersense, ushered by Germán Herrera // NIAD Online Exhibition // January 2022
Relics for the Future, curated by Jessica Snow // NIAD Galleries // January 2022
Future History: The Katz Legacy // Christie’s Auction House, San Francisco // December 2021
Stories, organized by B. Wurtz // NIAD Online Exhibition // November 2021
Necesito Más Flores// curated by Maria Radilla NIAD Windows 2020
Through My Eyes// organized By Scott Hewicker and Cliff Hengst NIAD Art Center 2020
A Kind of Movement // organized by Jay Wehnert Portland Art And Learning Studios 2019
Butterfly, Sugar // organized by Bonanza NIAD Art Center 2019
Hailing From Parts Unknown // organized By Curtis Turner May 2019
Redefining Contemporary Art // organized by Courtney Eldridge Depot Steamboat Springs 2019
Talking Heads: Figuration From Northern California Ceramicists // Curated organized by Susan Alexander and NIAD Art Center Museum of Northern California Art (monca) Chico 2018
It’s Complicated // organized by Kathleen King NIAD Art Center November 2018
Guerneville // organized By Gerasimos Floratos and Ross Simonini NIAD Art Center 2018
The Genre Leaps // organized by Margaret Tedesco NIAD Art Center 2018
Cyrano // organized By Em Kettner NIAD Art Center 2018
Indeterminate Space // organized by Anthony Piñata NIAD Art Center 2018
Flying Like A Rock // Public Annex Portland Oregon 2017
Creature Feature // organized by John Casey NIAD Art Center 2017
Souls And Scenarios // organized by Gina Borg NIAD Art Center 2016
Overloaded: Contemporary Art, Folk Art And Unique Objects // organized By Phil Linhares NIAD Art Center 2016
Jeremy Burleson // NIAD Art Center 2016
Fonds Duvel-Moortgat // organized by MADmusée, Théâtre de Liège, Liège Belgium 2016
Cities In Mind // organized by Kathleen King NIAD Art Center 2016
Variations On a Theme // organized by Robert Wuilfe NIAD Art Center 2016
Celebrating A Vision: Art & Disability // SFO Terminal Three 2016
Abstract Preferences // organized by Anthony Pinata NIAD Art Center 2016
Adventure! // organized by Scott MacLeod NIAD Art Center 2015
Art Of The Lived Experiment // UICA Grand Rapids Michigan 2015
Absence of Deliberate Silence // organized by Lacey Haslam NIAD Art Center 2015
In Other Wor(l)ds // organized by Block Gallery Inspired Life Chiropractic Oakland 2014
Ebony + Ivory // organized by Katie Johnson NIAD Art Center 2014
Outsider Art // organized by Phil Linhares and OMCA Oakland Airport 2013-14
Where Have All The People Gone? // organized by Amy Miller Village Theatre Art Gallery Danville 2013
Holiday Pop Up Shop And Lounge // NIAD Art Center 2012
Create // Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley 2011; Canton Gallery, Worcester 2012; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton 2013; Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville 2013; and Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman 2014
corporate and public collections
Clif Bar And Company, Emeryville California
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley California
MADMusée, Belgium
press
Star 82 Review Issue 10.1, edited by Alisa Golden // March 2022
Nat. Brut: I, Too, Like Purple (May 2017)
Boca Raton Magazine: ‘Create’ Exhibition A Revelatory Experience (2013, July)
San Francisco Chronicle: NIAD Art Center’s Gifts Of Artistic Ability (2012, December)
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Holy Cross Exhibit Displays Works Of Artists With Disabilities(2012, November)
MetroWest Daily News: Utterly Honest Art At Holy Cross In Worcester (2012, October)
Berkeley Patch: Art Without Labels (2011, June)
East Bay Express: Inner-Directed at Berkeley Art Museum(2011, June)
San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Create’: Art By The ‘Differently Abled’ At BAM (2011, May)
San Francisco Examiner: Create at the Berkeley Art Museum (2011, May)