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 Maureen Burdock  Education

Maureen Burdock is a Cultural Studies PhD candidate ate the University of California Davis. She has received a MFA from the California College of the Arts and a MA in visual and Critical studies. Additionally, she received her BFA in studio Arts from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. While attending these colleges, she also facilitated a comic forum weighted towards women creators.

Personal Life

Maureen Burdock was born in Germany and lived in Europe during the Cold War. Her original last name was Koch-Von Reitzenstein, Burdock adopted the name of this root as an adult interested in folk medicine. Maureen Burdock is currently pursuing many different aspects of her life. She lives in San Francisco, California where she is a college instructor at the University of California Davis. She also co-owns THEMA, a Santa Fe, NM business specializing in publication development and design, where she immerses herself in graphics and illustration. She is also an artist and an author. Burdock has done multiple lectures for different colleges and events related to her work and purpose. Additionally, she has attended many conferences where she has been either a moderator, presenter, or presented her own work.

Exhibitions

Maureen Burdock has had a handful of meaningful exhibitions throughout her career as an artist that primarily contains themes of traumatic events, like war, and the effects that they have on society. One of her most famous exhibitions, Marta & the Missing, was made up of several different ink drawings and photographs that portrayed the horrible attacks and murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad by numerous perpetrators that are unknown. The bodies, which have been raped and mutilated, have been found dumped in fields, deserts, even along the roadside. It appears that the police are involved with the violence or covering up the issue. This exhibit contains two parts: one consisting of photographs of the victims in order to honor the women’s lives; and another consists of ink drawings that tells a story of a girl (symbolized as a superhero) and her dog that are visited by ghosts that take them to the scenes of the crimes. The moral of this story is that the girl pictured in these images realizes they can get through this horror by standing with the victims and their families.

Major Projects and Publications

Maureen Burdock’s more recognized works are The Baroness of Have-Nothing and ''The F Project. The Baroness of Have-Nothing'' is an autobiographical graphic dissertation of Burdock’s life. This graphic novel involves trans-generational consequences of war and displacement and how culture and political events shape identity and experiences. Through this lens she critically examines her relatives while focusing on Memory Studies, Trauma Theory, and German Literature. Her other more acclaimed work, The F Project, is also a graphic novel. The novel, Feminist Fables for the Twenty-First Century, involves five fables from different cultural and geographical backgrounds. This book offers both English and the protagonist’s native language for each individual tale. Each fable involves themes revolving around race, gender, language and the conflicts that arise while fighting for social change. Burdock’s stories include the people of Juarez fighting to stop femicides, a child using art and magic to cope with childhood sexual abuse, an Arabic woman using the power of invisibility to protect herself from abuse, a Kenyan marathon runner raising money to get home before her niece endures female genital cutting, and a final story of a woman who endured Female genital mutilation and has made her life's work to end the practice.

Awards and Honors

In 1997, she received the jury award in the National Women Surrealists Exhibition from the Women Made Gallery. In 2005, she received the Communication Arts 46th Annual Illustration Exhibition Award of Excellence. In 2008, Burdock was a prize winner for "The F Word Project" in the Feminists Artists Under Forty competition presented by Judy Chicago and Through the Flower. Burdock's work has been reviewed by multiple publications including articles in Marie Claire, Mumbai, India; Strip, Copenhagen, Denmark; and in online publications Lamp Project and Art Reporter, Art Practical, and WomanHouse v.4.0 Catalog.