SELECTED EXHIBITS  [ * solo exhibit ]:

MAUREEN GASEK AND TIMOTHY C. BURNS: NEW WORKS, Allen Pepa Architects, 8 W. Wilson St., Batavia, Illinois, April 30 - June 6, 2010

FINE ART & FINE WINE, Group Show, co-organizer and exhibitor, 2579 Sycamore Rd., Dekalb, Illinois, April 17, 2010

Group Showing, Juried, at: 33 West Trattoria, 33 West New York, Aurora, Illinois, April 8 - May 25, 2010

ILLUSIONS, Group Exhibit, Juried, Galleri Norre Port, Hamstad, Sweden, Oct. 21- Nov. 8, 2009

VICINITY ’09, Group Exhibit, Juried, Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois, Oct. 3 - Nov. 14, 2009

FALL & WINTER,  Solo Exhibit, Juried, Messenger Library, North Aurora, Illinois. Oct. 1 - 31, 2009

Grand Opening Exhibit, Group Exhibit, Juried, Water Street Studios Gallery, Batavia, Illinois. Sept. 18 - Dec. 2009

51st Annual Member’s Show - 2009, First Place, Aurora Public Art’s Commission Gallery, Aurora, Illinois. Aug. 7 - Sept. 16, 2009

Art In Your Eye, Group Exhibit - Juried, City Hall Art Gallery Exhibit, Batavia, Illinois. Aug. 8 - 9, 2009

Group Exhibit, Batavia Artist Guild, Batavia Public Library, Batavia, Illinois. Aug. 1 - 30, 2009

Group Exhibit, Best in Show, 2nd Annual Juried International Alternative Digital Printing Exhibition, Booksmart Studio Gallery, Rochester, New York.  June 5 - 26, 2009

1. *VISUAL TRACES OF MEDITATION, Limestone Coffee & Tea, Batavia, Illinois. May 1 - 29, 2009
   

Group Exhibit, Geneva History Center, Geneva, Illinois. May 1 - 3, 2009 

Group Exhibit, Auroral Art League, Batavia Public Library, Batavia, Illinois. April 1 - 30, 2009

1. *VISUAL TRACES OF MEDITATION, Dunn Bros. Coffee, North Aurora, Illinois.  April, 2009
   

Aurora ArtWalk, Juried Art Festival, Aurora, Illinois. Mar. 27, 2009

New Members Show, Merit Award, Naperville Art League, League Art Gallery, Naperville, Illinois, Jan. 10 - Feb. 7, 2009

PDN PhotoPlus Expo, A featured artist for inkAID Ontario Specialty Coating Corp.,  Jacob Javits Center, NY, NY - Oct. 23 - 25, 2008

Group Exhibition, Juried, Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois, Oct. 4 - Nov. 15

* DRAGONFLY METHODOLOGY IN PRINTMAKING, The DeKalb Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois, Aug. - Sept., 2008

TERRA, Invitational, Galleri Norre Port, Hamstad, Sweden,  June - July, 2008

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, Group Exhibit, MECC Slemp Gallery, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Aug. - Oct. 2007

* PERSONAL EXPLORATIONS IN DIGITAL ART, MECC Slemp Gallery, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Oct. - Dec. 2004

* TCBURNS - RECENT DIGITAL IMAGES, The DeKalb Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois, May - June, 2000

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRONIC ART, Juried, Ukrainian Modern Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. - Nov., 1997

ADJUNCT FACULTY EXHIBITION, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, May, 1996

* PRINTMAKING AND ELECTRONIC IMAGES, West Wilson Street Gallery, Batavia, Illinois,  Nov., 1995 - Jan., 1996

THE EROTICA SHOW, Juried, Naked i Gallery, Evanston, Illinois,  Feb., 1995

CONTEMPORARY ART, Juried, Contemporary Art Center of Arlington Heights, Illinois,  Jan., 1995

PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL, Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois, Aug., 1994

* PURCHASE EXHIBITION, West Suburban Banks, Lisle, Illinois, showing of 25 purchased intaglio prints, June, 1994

THROUGH THE DOOR, Matrix Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Mar. 1994

RECENT CURRENTS IN ELECTRONIC IMAGING, Juried, University of Puget Sound, Seattle, Oct. - Nov., 1993

THE EROTICA SHOW, Juried, Naked i Gallery, Evanston, Illinois,  Feb., 1993

PRINTMAKING, Juried, Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois. Nov., 1992

HYPRA, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois. Nov., 1992

GROUP BENEFIT SHOW, Juried, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.  June, 1992

INAPPROPRIATE MEN, Juried, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.  Dec., 1991

CORPORATE EXHIBITS:

Dreyer Cancer Center, Aurora, Illinois.  Dec. 2008 - Nov., 2009

Jennings Terrace, Aurora, Illinois. April - Aug., 2009

Old Courthouse Gallery, Yorkville, Illinois.  Nov. 2008 - Nov., 2009

Prisco’s Next Door, Aurora, Illinois.  April - Nov., 2009 

* PURCHASE EXHIBIT, Source One Media, West Chicago, Illinois.  Nov., 2008

COLLECTIONS:

Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

Kishwaukee Community College, Malta, Illinois

Northern Illinois University, School of Art

Parker Press, Chicago, Illinois

Source One Media, West Chicago, Illinois

West Suburban Bank, Lisle, Illinois

TEACHING:

Lecture, Convergent Media/Alterative Printmaking, La Grange Art League, La Grange, Illinios. October 21, 2009

Lecture, Dry Acrylic Transfers and Alternate Printmaking, Aurora Art League, Aurora, Illinois.  April 15, 2009

Adjunct Instructor, Jan. 2006 - May 2006 College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois Faculty Development, “Digital 3D in Fundamentals of Design” (ART)

Adjunct Instructor, Jan. 1994 - Dec. 1999, Fine Arts, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, three course curriculum in digital media

Adjunct Instructor, Aug. 1981 - May 1983, Dept. of Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

Curriculum Development & Instructor, Jan. 1980 - June 1981, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas,  Develop and teach sequence in mediated communication, both theory and practice. Grants Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of Interior, and Baldwin University, Baldwin, Kansas

PUBLIC SERVICE:

Invitational Art Exhibition for Charities, Grand Opening Exhibit, The Orchard Valley Community, Aurora, Illinois. Nov. 15, 2009 - Jan. 13, 2010

Donated art for auction:

Charity Auction and Benefit Gala, Lydia Home Association, Chicago, Illinois. Nov. 16, 2009

Charity Auction, for Jefferson School, Wheaton, Illinois. April 2009

Charity Auction, Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice Care, St. Charles, Illinois.  May 29, 2009

EDUCATION:

M.F.A. 1991, Northern Illinois University, School of Art, Studio Art

M.A. 1979, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Communication Studies

B.S. Education 1974, University of Missouri-Columbia

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Golden Digital Mixed Media Workshop, Golden Artist Colors, Wheaton, Illinois,  July 6, 2008

Gargunnock House Photography Retreat, Sterling, Scotland, Mar. 2 - 9, 2007 - invitational / award

Printmaking Workshop, Keith Howard Image-On printing workshop, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 

June 7 - 12, 2004

Biennial Printmaking Symposium, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. 3 days, 1995,  photogravure & various workshops.

Post-graduate work in relief and intaglio printmaking under Charles Boone, and T. Parker [Parker Press], College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. 16 credit hours, 1993 - 1995

Chicago Book Arts, Bonnie Cullison from The Newberry Library, hand made artist book works, binding, and design of one-of-a-kind books, Chicago Book Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, 8 weeks, Spring 1992

ORGANIZATIONS:

American Print Alliance

Aurora Art League

Batavia Art Guild

Chicago Artists’ Coalition