Sigrid Burton

Place: Pasadena

Born: 1951

Biography:

Sigrid Burton is an American visual artist, known for semi-abstract paintings that combine atmospheric color fields and allusions to nature and culture. Her work bears a wide range of influences, including Buddhist cave and Indian miniature paintings, Jain cosmological diagrams, and artists from the Renaissance to modernists such as Kandinsky, Klee and the Color field painters to the California Light and Space movement. Critics have noted the predominance of color over form in her work, sometimes describing her approach as 'chromatic expressionism.' Burton has had exhibitions at venues including Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, and the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center. Her work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller Foundation and Palm Springs Desert Museum, among others. After being based in New York City, Burton has lived and worked in Pasadena, California since 2013.