andrea burgay

artist/curator

April 26 - june 8, 2025

Transformative processes revive and reconstruct castoff objects and materials through memory, emotion, and imagination. Giving new life to an object or material brings the past — along with the disregarded and overlooked — into the present in a new form, a kind of revival or resurrection. By continuously layering, dismantling, and reassembling materials, I create a process that mirrors natural cycles of creation, decay, and rebirth. The resulting works bear the markings of these visceral transformations, visually manifesting the passage of time and embodying both the pain of loss and the potential for growth.

These cycles also drive Cut Me Up Magazine, Burgay’s ongoing collaborative project of visual call and response. Each issue presents a curated selection of original collage images that become raw material for artists to respond to by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks, in response to curatorial calls .

Burgay’s national and international exhibitions include: Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art (Genoa, Italy), Galerie Zurcher (Paris, France),  Retroavangarda Gallery (Warsaw, Poland), and Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de La Pasión (Valladolid, Spain). Exhibitions in the US include Denise Bibro Gallery (NY), BRIC Gallery (NY), and Concord Art Visual Arts Center (MA). Her awards and residencies, include The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, The Eileen S Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ, The Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming, and a fellowship and solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn.