Artist: Andrea Burgay (United States)
Title: Reconstruction Physics
Date: 2019
Medium: Mixed-media analog collage, embroidery, UV glaze
Dimension: 4 x 5 3/4 inches
Exhibition History: Solo Exhibition: Mining the Ruins: The Library, Northwestern Missouri State University, Maryville, Michigan, 2019
A 45 Year Love Affair with Art: The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Tieton Arts & Humanities, Tieton, Washington, 2023
Acquisition Date: 2019
Credit: Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection
©Andrea Burgay
Andrea Burgay
Reconstruction Physics:
Reconstruction Physics
2019
Collage/decollage of pieces from vintage craft magazine, embroidery thread, PVA glue and UV glaze on vintage postcard
4 x 5 3/4"
Created in my Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY studio.
Shown in Mining the Ruins: The Library, Northwestern Missouri State University, Maryville, MI, 2019.
On the piece:
The picturesque serenity of this landscape postcard from Ireland is disrupted with the jittery, dynamic energy of a hewn-together woven form tearing across.
Photographic collage elements from knitting and crochet magazines create an illusion of layered stitching. This is combined with physical embroidery, creating a surface duality that veers between image and object, illusionistic depth and tactile material. Mark making by tearing away creates shapes that could either be brushstrokes, or areas of destruction.
This piece is part of a series of works on vintage postcards that are essentially responses to the initial image. Often combining imagery from craft magazines and embroidery, as in this piece, they present a hand-crafted, imaginary alternative to the rational world of the past that the postcards allude to.
Andrea Burgay
Bio (From 2019)
Andrea Burgay is a visual artist from Syracuse, NY, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work combines collage, sculpture and found materials to elevate the overlooked and the mundane via transformative processes. Through adding and removing layers of handmade and collected materials, her works present a physical manifestation of the passage of time, destruction and decay, with a sense of potential renewal.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally including; Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art (Genoa, Italy), Galerie Zurcher (Paris, France), and Retroavangarda Gallery (Warsaw, Poland). Exhibitions in the US include Concord Visual Arts Center (MA), Denise Bibro, BRIC, and Trestle galleries (all NY). She is a recipient of a number of awards and residencies including, include Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, The Eileen S Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ, and a fellowship and solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn.
Andrea is also founder and editor of Cut Me Up, a participatory collage magazine and curatorial project. Each issue presents a curated selection of original mixed-media artworks, intended for readers to deconstruct, and transform into new artworks in response to curatorial calls addressing contemporary issues.
ANDREA BURGAY (From 2019)
www.andreaburgay.com
Born in Syracuse, NY.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Mining the Ruins: The Library, Northwestern Missouri State University, Maryville, MI
2016 Destroy Edit Transform, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Botanic Revelries, Local Project, Queens, NY, with Ava Hassinger
Becoming Ritual, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Hungry Ghosts, G-Train Salon/Urban Alchemist, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 We Still Make, Imagine and Read Books 2, Space 776 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Nari Kim
Copyright Bandits, Collapse Gallery, Wenatchee WA
Unfolding Object, Concord Visual Arts Center, Concord, MA, curator Todd Bartel
International Collage Art Exhibition, Retroavangarda Gallery Warsaw, Poland, curator Anna Kłos
Collage Now, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
Strictly Sedimentary, Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre, VT
2018 Overlap, Prime Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, curators Maria Kosdan and Walter John Rodriguez
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, The Cigar Factory, Queens, NY, curators Krista Scenna and Carolina
Peñafiel
Dissent: Explorations of the Subconscious, Long Island University Resnick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Landscapes, Roxbury Arts Group, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
Works On/Of Paper, BrickRed Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Introductions 2018, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn NY, curator Enrico Gomez
2017 Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Truth, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Reuse, Materials for the Arts, Queens, NY
Mythology, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
McNeese National Works On Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, curator Gia Hamilton
Wrap Around 12: Andrea Burgay, Juan Hinojosa, Jill Slaymaker, Arena at Suite 806, New York, NY, curator
Renée Riccardo
2016 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator JoAnne McFarland
Collections, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
We Still Make, Imagine and Read Books, Space 776 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Nari Kim
Made In NY 2016, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2015 Works On/With Paper, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY
Out of Place, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, curators Fanny Allié and Etty Yaniv
Makexchanges, Northside Festival, Brooklyn, NY, curator Caitlin Crews
Face Plant, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Something/Nothing, Vertigo Art Space, Denver, CO, curator Peter Strange Yumi
2014 Rock, Paper, Scissor, Greene County Council on the Arts Catskill Gallery, Catskill, NY
Arshile Gorky and a selection of contemporary drawings, Outlet, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Collage Collective Episode #1, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
Other Worlds, Skylight Gallery. New York, NY, curator Jill Slaymaker
2013 Cocktails and Dreams, Part II, Airplane, Brooklyn, NY
SIP Fellowship Show, Blackburn 20/20, New York, NY
Homeward Found, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Expose: New Orleans, Exagere Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Juxtaposition: The Madness of Collage, Next Gallery, Denver, CO, curator Peter Strange Yumi
After Effects: NYFA Hurricane Sandy Exhibition, Chashama, New York, NY
2012 Salon Zurcher: 7 NY Galleries, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France
Strange Glue: Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, curator Todd Bartel
Shake In/Shake Out, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Cut Up, STOREFRONT Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Plein Air, Airplane, Brooklyn, NY
The Project Collective, Dekalb Market, Brooklyn, NY, curators Caitlin Crews and Ava Hassinger
Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Bricoleurs, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curators Christian Fuller and Risa Shoup
2011 FoolsGold, Sasha Noe Presents, New York, NY
Sculpture Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Project Collective Presents, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY, curators Caitlin Crews and Ava
Hassinger
2006 Cabin Comforts, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Primal Future Expo, Morgan Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Lucio Pozzi Curates Young Artists, Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
2005 Emerging Artists in the New, New York Art World, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES and AWARDS:
2019 The Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming (upcoming)
2018 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Residency at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency, Nebraska City, NE
2015 A.I.R. Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Pajama Factory Residency, Williamsport, PA
2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Hurricane Sandy Relief Grant
2012 Alliance for Young Artist and Writers Residency Program and Artist Stipend, New York, NY
2012 The Wassaic Project, Fellowship Award, Wassaic, NY
2012 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Fellowship, New York, NY
2012 SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide: Residency with Queens Council on the Arts, NY
2011 Contemporary Artist Center, Merit Fellowship Award; Woodside, NY
2005 Final Thesis Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
WORKSHOPS/PANELS/CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2019 Art and The Book, Volume 2, Archive Montreal, Montréal, Québec, October 4, 2019.
2019 Unfoldingobject, panelist, Concord Visual Arts Center, Concord, MA, June 26, 2019.
2019 Cut Me Up Magazine, Issue 2, curator, January, 2019.
2018 Andrea Burgay: Collage Art, presentation and workshop, Materials for the Arts, Queens, NY, July 19, 2018.
2018 Beyond the Exhibition: Strategies for Showing, Sharing, & Selling Collage Outside of Gallery Context,
panelist, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, July 13, 2018.
2016 Object Relations, workshop and exhibition, Ground Floor Gallery/A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 2016.
EDUCATION:
2005 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Close, Cynthia, “At a New Festival, Book Arts Shine”, Art & Object, October 17, 2019.
Kadour, Ric Kasini, The Book As A Place of Collage, symposium catalog, October 2019.
Bartel, Todd, Unfoldingobject, Exhibition Catalog, June 2019.
Max-o-matic, “Cut Me Up Magazine,” The Weird Show, February 25, 2019.
Yaniv, Etty, “Sorting Through Chaos: Artist Interview,” Art Spiel, September 17, 2018.
Hamilton, Gia, 30th McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, exhibition catalog, April 2017.
The Riveter Review, Issue 5, August 2016.
Riccardo, Renée, “Shortlist Curator Artist Feature,” BRIC Contemporary Artist Registry, March 2016.
Noir, Bill, Mékanik Copulaire #6, March 2014.
Perry, Elizabeth, “Artist Interview,” The 22 Magazine, February 2014.
Mair, Moray, “Andrea Burgay Collages Are A Playful Exploration Into Human Decay,” Mutantspace, May 31,
2013.
Wolff, Rachel, “When Strom Is Collaborator,” Art News, April 22, 2013.
Tino, Anthony, “Artist Interview,” Recession Art Blog, March 2013.
Soulez, Juliette, “La tête chercheuse de la galerie Zürcher: une mini foire off de galeries new-yorkaises
Émergentes,” Blouin ArtInfo, October 18, 2012.
Bartel, Todd, Virtual Annex: Strange Glue, Exhibition Catalog, September 2012.
Villasmil, Alejandra, “Artist of the Week,” Artishock, April 2, 2012.
BRIC Rotunda Gallery, The Bricoleurs, Exhibition Catalog, January 2012.
Blumenthal, Carl, “Exhibits at Rotunda are a Mixed Bag", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 9, 2012.
Sick of the Radio, March 31, 2011.
Brown Paper Bag, March 28, 2011.
Valdez, Aldrin, “Shortlist Curator Artist Feature”, BRIC Contemporary Artist Registry, 2011.
COLLECTIONS:
The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New Jersey, NJ
