Bobbie Burgers
Iterations

Iterations is a maximalist exploration of form, colour, and mark-making where the artist is adding complexity through increased awareness of materiality contrasted against a heightened sense of spontaneity. Known for her sumptuous use of paint and dedication to the subject of botanicals, Bobbie Burgers’ exhibition explores iterations of two specific paintings in her new works on paper. The process by which the new works on paper were developed was new to the artist. Beginning with two works on canvas, she had archival prints prepared in two sets of three. From there, she layers and obscures and complicates the imagery through a process of addition and subtraction, through the processes of painting and collage. The source of the collaged elements is taken from previously unfinished paintings, works whose final expression was never fulfilled. In this way, Burgers strips the brush strokes of their original place and reinterprets them within a new context. This process allows the artist to reconcile with the incomplete past while developing a revised future for the works. For the viewer, the details within each work emerge and recede, disappearing into the brush work or projected to the forefront of the image, offering endless possibilities in how the works evolve and can be seen.

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