Ernest Burden III
A San Francisco, CA native, Ernest Burden is an internationally recognized artist specializing in architectural imagery. A leader in the New York City illustration market for more than forty years, he has worked with influential architects, engineers and civil authorities to provide visual works that advance the understanding of proposed structures in the public sphere. His rendering career and illustration work bridges traditional and digital media. Burden ushered in new imaging standards for the digital age by bringing aspects of the softness and nuance of hand applied media into precise digital images and animations. New works are again focusing on traditional methods, with multiple works in process depicting real and imagined spaces.
Ernest lives and works just north of NYC in New York's Hudson Valley, always scanning the skies for interesting planes and resident Bald Eagles. |
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Statement
Whether around the curving walls of terminals or across the stone of borough streets, a clear light passes through Ernest Burden’s drawings, not simply attributable to lightness of hand or paper. Light often acts as both an impasse and an invisible fellow passenger, clarifying immutable truths, yet transient and transitory as it wraps around the sleek wings of aircraft or skips under a bridge. Light not only illuminates places traversed or traversing itself, but it reveals the radical frankness of trajectories both biographical and borne by a 9B pencil. Light reveals not only distance, but how the ghostly distance of passing decades and the sharp, clear distances measured by footsteps or flight paths are often one and the same.
Featured in Fine art Connoisseur Magazine
I am extremely honored to have my picture The World Awaits included in a feature for the April 2021 issue of this great publication:
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Interview by 6sqft.com
on Architectural Illustration work
Group Exhibitions, 1980s and 1990s
Pen & Brush Society, NY
FIT Gallery, NY
ASAI shows AIP II, V, VI, XI in:
Dallas - LTV Pavillon
New York - The Urban Center of the Municipal Art Soc. +US tour
San Francisco - The Atrium Gallery at the Contract Design Center +US, Germany, Austria
Boston - The Boston Architectural Center +US tour
2018 - Ossining Arts Council, Ossining Library, Ossining, NY
Juror/Curator
1990 - Curated ASAP@AIA: Visualizing The Building Process San Diego, CA
2006 - CG-Awards Juror - international architectural visualisation and animation competition.
2005 - CGA Arch-Viz Competition - international, four-stage judging/crits progress architectural visualisation and animation competition.
Institutional, Corporate and Private Collections
Brooklyn Museum
Equitable Life Assurance Society
City of San Francisco
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Port Authority of NY and NJ
Roy Lichtenstein, NY, NY
Spike Lee, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Editorial Image Publications 1983 – 2022
The New York Times
Architectural Record
CADence
Progressive Architecture
Advertising Age Cover
Architectural Delineation, Third Ed., Ernest Burden Jr., McGraw Hill 1992
Brooklyn Bridge
Fine Art Connoisseur
Publication of Writings
2021- “As Built: Architectural Portraits”, The Disruptive Quarterly, Volume 1
2010- Author of chapter “Composition” in book 3D Max 2010: Architectural Visualization Advanced to Expert
2020- CGArchitect.com article “On Building an Importance Engine”
Invited Presentations
2008, presenter, VisMasters Annual Conference-DMVC 3, Boston, MA
2006, leadoff presenter, VisMasters Annual Conference-DMVC 1, Boston, MA
2004, presenter, ASAI Convention, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Clients of Note
Cathedral of St John the Divine, NY, NY
City of San Francisco, CA
Kohn, Pederson, Fox, Architects, NY, NY
Robert A. M. Stern, Architect, Yale University Dean of Architecture
I.M. Pei, Architect
Champalimaud Design, NY, NY
Metro North Commuter Railroad
Port Authority of NY and NJ
Triborough Bridge And Tunnel Authority
Pen & Brush Society, NY
FIT Gallery, NY
ASAI shows AIP II, V, VI, XI in:
Dallas - LTV Pavillon
New York - The Urban Center of the Municipal Art Soc. +US tour
San Francisco - The Atrium Gallery at the Contract Design Center +US, Germany, Austria
Boston - The Boston Architectural Center +US tour
2018 - Ossining Arts Council, Ossining Library, Ossining, NY
Juror/Curator
1990 - Curated ASAP@AIA: Visualizing The Building Process San Diego, CA
2006 - CG-Awards Juror - international architectural visualisation and animation competition.
2005 - CGA Arch-Viz Competition - international, four-stage judging/crits progress architectural visualisation and animation competition.
Institutional, Corporate and Private Collections
Brooklyn Museum
Equitable Life Assurance Society
City of San Francisco
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Port Authority of NY and NJ
Roy Lichtenstein, NY, NY
Spike Lee, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Editorial Image Publications 1983 – 2022
The New York Times
Architectural Record
CADence
Progressive Architecture
Advertising Age Cover
Architectural Delineation, Third Ed., Ernest Burden Jr., McGraw Hill 1992
Brooklyn Bridge
Fine Art Connoisseur
Publication of Writings
2021- “As Built: Architectural Portraits”, The Disruptive Quarterly, Volume 1
2010- Author of chapter “Composition” in book 3D Max 2010: Architectural Visualization Advanced to Expert
2020- CGArchitect.com article “On Building an Importance Engine”
Invited Presentations
2008, presenter, VisMasters Annual Conference-DMVC 3, Boston, MA
2006, leadoff presenter, VisMasters Annual Conference-DMVC 1, Boston, MA
2004, presenter, ASAI Convention, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Clients of Note
Cathedral of St John the Divine, NY, NY
City of San Francisco, CA
Kohn, Pederson, Fox, Architects, NY, NY
Robert A. M. Stern, Architect, Yale University Dean of Architecture
I.M. Pei, Architect
Champalimaud Design, NY, NY
Metro North Commuter Railroad
Port Authority of NY and NJ
Triborough Bridge And Tunnel Authority