Abraham Burickson (born 1975

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) is an American

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and conceptual artist.

Life

Son of

Sherwin Burickson Sherwin Burickson (1934–2004) psychologist, writer, and student of the ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff, was the first Jewish editor of the New Catholic Encyclopedia, and the author of ''A Concise Dictionary of Contemporary History'', published in 195 ...

, Abraham Burickson attended

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, receiving a BA in architecture. In 2002 he moved to San Francisco where with actor Matthew Purdon he founded the conceptual art and performance group

Odyssey Works Odyssey Works is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by Abraham Burickson and Matthew Purdon in San Francisco in 2001. The group, composed of artists practicing in various disciplines (writers, composers, designers, actors, perform ...

. In 2008 Burickson received an MFA from The University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. His book, co-authored by Ayden LeRoux and published by

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in 2016
Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One
outlines an approach to art-making as experience design. He was the Risley Artist-in-Residence at

in 2010, and has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art and Academy of Art University.

Awards

* 2010: Artist-In-Residence at

's Risley Residential College * 2005-2008: James Michener Fellow in Poetry at The University of Texas Michener Center for Writers * 2005: Fellowship,

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Chapbooks

*Charlie. Codhill Press, 2010.

Anthologies

* Best New Poets 2008. Ed. Mark Strand. University of Virginia Press, 2008.

References

External links

New York Times Review of Odyssey Works 2012
Blackbird, 2008
Another poemAnother poem
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