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​​Tom Burckhardt was born in New York City in 1964 and has spent his entire life living there. He graduated with a BFA in painting from SUNY Purchase in 1986 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture that same year. He has been exhibiting since 1992 at various NYC galleries such as High Noon Gallery, George Adams Gallery, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Pierogi and Caren Golden Fine Art, and the Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco CA. His most recent solo show of paintings was at High Noon Gallery NYC Sept 5- Oct 25, 2025. He participated in the 2016 Kochi Muziris Bienalle in Kerala, India and that installation piece,“Studio Flood” was shown at the Pierogi Gallery, NYC in September 2017 and CMCA in Maine during Summer 2018. He was an artist in residence at Yaddo Foundation in New York State in March 2024 and January 2019, at Pepper House, Kochi, India, in January 2020, and at MacDowell in December 2025. He was a resident faculty at Skowhegan in 2007 and currently teaches part time at SUNY Purchase.

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Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a double recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021, and received an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum. She was a resident artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, at BRIC/Project Room and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. In 2019 she exhibited in her first international show at Wild Palms in Dusseldorf, Germany. An encore international group show took place in Paris at the Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, summer 2024. Other selected group shows include: The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT; the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC and recently at Venus Over Manhattan, NYC. In summer 2024 her work was featured in two solo ventures at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, VA and at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton, NY. She has been selected by guest co-­‐curator, artist Jeffrey Gibson to participate in the 200th anniversary exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Fall/2024. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum. She is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and works in New York.