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Beer With a Painter: Tom Burckhardt

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Beer With a Painter: Tom Burckhardt
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Tom Burckhardt was named after the Apostle Thomas, who pressed his finger into Jesus’s wound to confirm the resurrection for himself — a fact the artist sees as providential. “It’s no mistake that it’s my name,” he said.Burckhardt uses skepticism as a creative motivator: to erase our attachment to categorization and break down pretension with humor. In his artistic world, language is slippery, large-scale paintings can also be doodles, and we are encoura

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