page_title: Ray Burggraf
section_title: Papers and presentations
hierarchical_section_title: Ray Burggraf / Papers and presentations
caption_attribution_description: Ray L. Burggraf in the process of assembling a 12' color construction. Photo taken at the Ray Burggraf studio in 2012.
context_page_description: Ray L. Burggraf is an artist, color theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts at Florida State University. According to Roald Nasgaard, Burggraf's paintings exhibit "visual excitation...pulsating patterns, vibrating after-images, weird illusionistic spaces, multifocal opticality, executed with knife-edge precision...crisp and elegant and radiant with light." From a historical perspective, Burggraf's work is "nature evocative...reach[ing] back to the modernist landscape tradition of the Impressionists and of Neo-impressionists like Seurat, who, in the late-nineteenth century immersed themselves in the color theories of Chevreul and Rood".
  Using acrylic paint and wood—and sometimes Plexiglas and UV light—Burggraf frequently calls his paintings "color constructions", and they have been exhibited in the United States, Sweden, and Korea.
  In 1981, Burggraf became a founding member of the non-profit 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL, and served as its first President. In 2004, Burggraf collaborated with two other Florida State University faculty members in the creation of an exhibition called, A Mysterious Clarity.
context_section_description: Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC/MCAA), A Painter's Thoughts of Contemporary Color Theory:  The Useful, the Irrelevant and the Dangerous, Presented as a Panel Member, Session—Chromancing the Color Moshpit, Annual Meeting, Oct. 25-58, 2006, Nashville, TN
  Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), The Legacy of Bauhaus:  A Selective Memory Helps, Presented as a Panel Member, Session--Bauhaus:  An Idea or a History? Annual Meeting, Oct. 26-29, 2005, Little Rock, AR
  College Art Association (CAA), Bauhaus Color Theory in the Melting Pot, Panel Member, Session--Beyond Formalism:  Teaching Color as Culture, 91st Annual Meeting, Feb. 19-22, 2003, New York, NY
  College Art Association (CAA), Painting the Compelling Force of Nature, Panel Member, Session--Visual Commentary on Culture and Nature, 84th Annual Meeting, Feb. 21-24, 1996, Boston, MA
  College Art Association (CAA), Regional Artistic Thought, Panel Member, Session--Aesthetics, Cultural Diversity, and Art Issues Outside New York, 83rd Annual Meeting, Jan. 25-28, 1995, San Antonio, TX
caption: Ray L. Burggraf, assembling a recently completed color construction (2012).  Photo courtesy of George Clark.
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