Jordan Burton / Jburt

Jordan Burton / Jburt b.2000 (Columbus, Ohio)

Jordan Burton is a self-taught artist from Columbus, Ohio, working across painting, digital illustration, and graphic design. Although he has created art since childhood, he began pursuing it seriously in 2018, just before graduating high school. When the pandemic hit, rather than slowing down, it became a turning point in his career. He dedicated more time to creating new work and began selling pieces and working on projects with other creatives, which helped establish his name. In 2023, he held his first solo exhibition at WIT Gallery. Jordan works primarily with oil paint and digital illustration in Procreate. His work is rooted in personal experiences, black identity living in the midwest, emotions, often reflecting on themes of mental health and the ways people process or struggle to express it. Sometimes simply documenting life without an overall message to it. Jordan makes a combination of cubism realism through figures, he makes a scale look to the skin tone with color blocking of the figures. Using layered shades, hues, and varying saturations, he creates shapes that bring depth to the figures. He blends his style with deep shadows and vibrant colors to compliment the skin tone shapes. Jordan’s current goal is to continue developing his artistic voice, creating until his ideas are fully realized, and collaborating with others to bring their visions to life. As well as to inspire everyone around him.

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