Detroit Industrial Gallery

This Page is to inform and share with the public Detroit artist's Tim Burke artistic process both past and present, it is also to share about any upcoming shows and or artistic adventures. Tim Burke has been a leader in the outsider art movement in Detroit for the last 28 years. Mastering the found object genre. Tim has spearheaded a one man recycling operation and recovered 10 tons of Granite from the renovation of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Many beautiful Terra Cotta pieces from the Riveara Theater. traverntine from the Detroit Collage of Law. as well as many more gone but not forgotten historic landmark buildings that have been torn down in Detroit over the last 25 years. Tim has turned some of these pieces into functional as well as surreal pieces of art . From a bench in the new Downtown Y.M.C.A. to tables and chairs that were being sold in the gift shop of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tim's work has been shown locally as well as internationally. Tim has many public art installation to his credit, most recently the installation of his four whimsical robot looking creatures in the children's section of compuwares Lafayette Garden, Dowtown Detroit. Tim's home and Studio for the last 12 years is located within the world renowned Heidelberg Project. Tim's work is for sale at the Detroit Institute of Arts Gift Shop, the Grosse point Art Center, Rivers edge Gallery and at his studio gallery, Detroit Industrial Gallery On Heidelberg street.Tim has lectured and demonstrated making sculpture at Wayne County Community Collage as well as Wayne State University. The series of robot creatures that Tim Has made for the Art Prize installation at Fountain Street Church, include F-18 fighter Jet Parts, as well as gears that would have been used on the robotic arm of the Space Station. Talk about turning Swords into plowshares! what better way to make art that can speak of creating food for the soul,by using gears that would have went to make war machinery. the whimsical nature of these creatures override their seaming ability to destroy. The Krazy Kat sculpture are to give the installation a playful feel against the seriousness of the political signage. Tim uses pieces of a broken down City as a metaphor for his own life upheaval, and the rebuilding of his life through art. my work is at times whimsical and at others surreal, as well as functional.