Works

Books, Abridged
Books abridged for your convenience. First and last sentences only.
Misc. Collections
TV Homes
When Caryl first noticed the Degas ballerina print hanging in the living room of Lucy and Desi Ricardo--the same print that hung on her bedroom wall as a child--she experienced...
Toothbrush Graphics
Hundreds of toothbrushes--numbered, color xeroxed, and catalogued. Four-out-of-five dentists agree: You can brighten your smile by hanging some lovely toothbrush graphics on your own bathroom wall. Visit the Store.
Toothbrushes
Caryl Burtner’s toothbrush collection was officially launched in 1977 as a party, with an admission fee of one toothbrush per guest. From this festive beginning, the collection has grown (over...
Names
What's in a name? Individual faces arranged into tribes according to their identity tags.
Lipstick Blots
A lipstick blot is a loaded image, but this work is not about glamour or sexuality. It's about ephemera; it’s about the often silly names of lipstick colors; and it's...
Friday the 13th
An investigation into paraskevidekatriaphobia. The convergence of a Friday with the number 13 happens every so often, to remind us to Pay Attention! Anything could happen, at any time. Caryl...
Flowers
Dried flowers from special and ordinary and happy and sad occasions, pressed into carefully selected pages from books of photographs. After there were no more pages in her book of...
Dictionary Diaries
Dictionary Diaries chronicles words Caryl has looked up--sometimes for spelling, sometimes for pronunciation, sometimes for meaning, and sometimes for etymology. Sometimes the words she looked up weren't really words at...
Crayons
For many of us growing up, the colors, wrappers and titles of Crayola crayons constituted a gold standard. In these revealing pages, Caryl contrasts generic-crayon manufacturers' abject approximations of Crayola...
Archives
"The show's scene-stealer, for me, was the work of Richmond-based "collections artist" Caryl Burtner, the centerpiece of whose work -- contained in five three-ring binders so humble a visitor might...
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