TWS Broadcast. Episode 08: Andrea Burgay. Time, decay and hope.
Andrea Burgay is a Brooklyn based artist and editor. Her works combines collage, sculpture and found materials to elevate the overlooked and mundane via transformative physical processes. And, indeed, there’s a strong physical and material component to her work, with layers of paper, paint and other materials accumulating and forming abstract and expressive gestures.
Andrea is also the founder and editor or one of our favourite editorial adventures: Cut Me Up magazine, a participatory and curatorial project which publishes works created with artworks made by deconstructing and transforming the previous editions of the magazine.
Because we love Andrea’s work and projects, and because she’ll be joining the Weird Show team interviewing her favourite artists, we wanted to talk with her and find out more about her work and ideas.
Andrea Burgay in studio at ESKFF Residency/Mana Contemporary, photo courtesy of Ivette UrbaezAndrea Burgay, Never Going Back Again, 2021, Collage of painted and inked paper, poster, book and magazine pieces, 30 x 22”Andrea Burgay, Emor, 2012, Collage, 24 x 18” Andrea Burgay, Words, 2017, Mixed-media collage, acrylic painted paper, 26 x 20″Andrea Burgay, Nothing’s Ever Lost (Turn The Page), 2018, Acrylic painted paper, magazine and book images, wallpaper samples, 30 x 44″ Andrea Burgay, The Gift, 2019, Acrylic painted paper, magazine and book images, wallpaper samples, 30 x 44”Andrea Burgay, Courage (strength in the face of pain or grief), or Collage, 2019, Paper, wallpaper sample, vintage book, 7.5 x 5 x .5″ Andrea Burgay, Breaking, 2019, Collage/decollage of images and wallpaper samples on layered pages, 14 x 11.5 x 1.25″Andrea Burgay, Stars are Fire, 2020, Collage/decollage on vintage book board, 8.25 x 8.25”Andrea Burgay, Fictions, 2021, Collage/decollage on vintage book, shelving Andrea Burgay, Barbarians (The Secret Emerged), 2020, Collage/decollage on vintage book, 7.25 x 5.5 x .5″Andrea Burgay, Barbarians (The Secret Emerged), 2020, Collage/decollage on vintage book, 7.25 x 5.5 x .5″ Andrea Burgay, It Was Survival, 2020, Collage on vintage book, 7.5 x 5 x .5”Andrea Burgay, Cut Me Up 4 from Cut Me Up Issue 1: First Call, 2016, Collage, ink, 8.5 x 11″Cless, Dr. Strange, from Cut Me Up Issue 2: Inside-Out, 2018, Handmade collage, 10.6 x 8″Andrea Burgay, Cut Me Up 7 from Cut Me Up Issue 1: First Call, 2016, Collage, 8.5 x 11″Keith Childress, Lair of the Uncanny, from Cut Me Up Issue 2: Inside-Out, 2018, Mixed-media collage using Cut Me UpIssue 1, cat hair and other paper, 10 x 8″Janice McDonald, Fore/Back: Ground, from Cut Me Up Issue 3: Tabula Rasa, 2019, Contemporary paper collage on watercolor paper, 12 x 9”
