Brooklyn-based British artist Jon Burgerman encourages mistakes, experiments and improvisation within his practice to allow for new, fun ways of making. His mission is to inspire creativity in others and to never know exactly what he will create next. Jon Burgerman is an artist who likes to instigate improvisation and play through drawing and spectacle. We are delighted he is going to join us for our online edition of Blend!
Jon doesn’t need a canvas; mister Doodle draws on anything and everywhere, with remarkable speed. His monster-like characters are wonky, wibbly, odd, angry, happy, dumb and wrong. But all of them seem to come from the same place and all live in the same world: some are friends, others have never met, but they all breathe the same air and often snore in their sleep. A sense of British self-deprecation, dry humour and modern-day anxiety imbues his work along with an enthusiasm for salad.
Burgerman draws from a wide-range of sources, taking inspiration from cartoons, traditional animation, character design, pop-art, electronic music and abstract expressionism. Bouncing across different media, Burgerman’s instantly recognisable aesthetic often combines his signature elements of exaggerated expressions, vivid colour, gestural mark making and cartoony googly eyes.