Andrea Burgay

Brooklyn, NY United States

@andreaburgay

Andrea Burgay portrait

Bio

Andrea Burgay creates collage-based works and collaborative projects that investigate paper and print media as sites of intimacy and connection, exploring cycles of destruction and renewal through their transformation. She is the founder and editor of Cut Me Up Magazine, a curatorial project in which readers respond to published artworks by reimagining and reconfiguring them, creating an ongoing visual dialogue among artists.

Statement

“In my work, 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.” A.B.

Limited Edition Prints

Imparting In Parting
Imparting In Parting Available in 4 sizes
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Room to Dream
Room to Dream Edition varies by size
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False Starts
False Starts Available in 4 sizes
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In the artist's own words

“False Starts is one of seven works created at Kolaj Fest, in New Orleans, using shared and found materials from their archive. Each piece carries a sense of immediacy and explores acts of revealing and concealing, meaning and ambiguity, communication and disruption.”
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In the artist's own words

""The page’s text is largely blacked out, redacted, and obscured, with “the begin” visible as the only legible phrase besides the title. Bright, primary colors on fabric evoke sheets, balloons, or the parachute game from childhood gym classes, while small feet poking out below. What does growing up look like as an adult? What memories persist, which are covered over, and which do we seek to recreate? Growing Up (You) is one of seven works created at Kolaj Fest, in New Orleans, using shared and found materials from their archive. Each piece carries a sense of immediacy and explores acts of revealing and concealing, meaning and ambiguity, communication and disruption."
Growing Up You
Growing Up You 4 sizes available
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Original Artworks

Granny Squares
Granny Squares 11 x 8.25 x .25
Collage/decollage of magazine pieces on layered pages
Original Artwork €687,00
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In the artist's own words

“Granny Squares, from my Fictions: Periodicals series, is a crochet magazine that has undergone a process of tearing apart, layering, and reassembling. The photographic imagery allows me to blur the boundary between image and object, inviting viewers to move between reading it as actual yarn or as fragments of yarn photographs. I call these works image-objects: readable as paintings, yet physical as sculptural forms.

I am drawn to knitting and crochet books from the 1970s and ’80s, as well as other craft publications. These were magazines that surrounded me as a child, and I was captivated not only by their colors and patterns, but also by the sense of possibility they offered — the idea that you could create almost anything from the simple materials listed. Revisiting them allows me to transform these memories back into the very material from which they were made.” A.B.

Infinite Torment (Inferno)
Infinite Torment (Inferno) 7.25 x 4.75 x .5”
Collage/decollage on paperback book
Original Artwork €800,00
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In the artist's own words

“Infinite Torment (Inferno)’ stands apart within my ‘Fictions’ series as a book whose narrative is part of our collective imagination—shaping how we conceive of hell itself—as opposed to the remnants and forgotten books I typically revive in the series. Though its status as a gift and companion to an earlier piece, Dante’s ‘Purgatory,’ gave me license to bend the usual rules of the series, it is the fact that the concepts of hell were largely created by a writer in the 14th century—not the Bible—a fact both fascinating and continually relevant in our religion-focused world, that led to this particular exception." A.B.

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David Hockney
in conversation with Paul Joyce.
1988