Description
Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.

Burton's films include Vincent (1982), Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (as creator and producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd (2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000).

Host
David

Meetup
01:15 p.m.

Entrance into the exhibition
01:30 p.m.

Viewing of the exhibition
01 hr. 30 min.

Travel time to venue for discussion
30 mins.

Discussion
03:30 p.m-04:30 p.m. @ [t.b.a.]

Reservation
Confirmed by [t.b.a].

Ticket and fees
$20 ticket+$01 Meetup group maintenance fee+$1.20 Amazon Payments transaction processing fee.

The Organizer has purchased six tickets for scheduled entrance into the exhibition. Consequently, these and the related fees are not refundable.

Final schedule and details
The Host will e-mail the final schedule and details of the Meetup after 12:00 a.m. on the day of the Meetup.

Waiting list
Respondents should state "waiting list" in their replies if they want spots on the waiting list. The Host may open additional seats and announce their availability to the waiting list based on space available at the venues, demand, the availability of a co-Host and other factors.