Tim Burton “may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema,” the reporter Dave Itzkoff wrote in a 2012 New York Times article. Known for directing films such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, he has worked as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author. Burton was born in California, in 1958, and as a boy was drawn to comics, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows, and science-fiction films. He carried these retinal memories into adulthood, where they’ve contributed to his unique and dark visual language. “It’s less about staying in childhood,” Burton told Itzkoff, “than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.” Presenting a collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketches, videos, sculptures, and set and costume designs, this exhibition aims to holistically represent Burton and the worlds he has created. —Jeanne Malle