OM.2024.051 - Andrea Burgay - USA

OM.2024.051 - Andrea Burgay - 'Combined' - collage on panel - 8 x 8 inches - Visual Poetry and Color

 Andrea Burgay is an American contemporary visual artist, publisher, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Syracuse, her multidisciplinary practice heavily investigates paper and print media through heavy tactile deconstruction, exploring themes of memory, decay, and the passage of time. [1, 2]

Artistic Practice & Style

• Accumulation & Deconstruction: Burgay layers found materials, paper scraps, handmade materials, and mundane objects. She aggressively strips down and reconstructs these components, allowing the final pieces to bear the visceral markings of destruction, transformation, and ultimate renewal. [1, 2, 3]
• "Fictions" Series: In this notable series of sculptural collages, Burgay utilizes old, non-iconic paperback books. She works directly into their structures, breaking down, chewing up, and reassembling the covers and interiors to create colorful, densely warped objects that look simultaneously ravaged by time and bursting with new growth. [1, 2]
• A Painter's Sensibility: While she is fundamentally a collage and mixed-media creator, critics highlight her painterly sensibility, emphasizing subtle color shifts, tactile surfaces, and a messy curiosity mirroring abstract expressionism. [1]

Editorial & Curatorial Projects

• Cut Me Up Magazine: Burgay is the founder and director of Cut Me Up Magazine, an innovative, participatory collage publication. Each issue functions as a curatorial project where readers are explicitly asked to response to, reconfigure, and creatively destroy published artworks, forming an ongoing visual dialogue between global artists. [1, 2]

Notable Exhibitions & Collections

• Exhibitions: Her work has featured at international venues, including Unimedia Modern (Italy), Galerie Zurcher (Paris), and Retroavangarda (Poland), as well as domestic sites like BRIC (NYC) and a 2024 solo show at the Guldner Gallery (Kansas City). []
• Collections & Residencies: Her pieces are held in collections such as the Kanyer Art Collection and have been developed through residencies at Jentel and the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation. []