Saturday, May 10, 2025

Artist of the Day, May 10, 2025: Andy Burgess, a British-born American painter (#2275)

London-born artist Andy Burgess, currently residing in Tucson, Arizona, is known for his renditions of modernist and mid-century architecture, panoramic cityscape paintings, and elaborate mosaic-like collages made from collected vintage papers and ephemera. Lauded by Annabel Samspon, Deputy Editor of Tatler as “the next David Hockney”, Burgess continually expands his artistic vocabulary by mastering various media, most recently immersing himself in photography and printmaking.

Despite the huge impact of early modern architecture, the innovative and subtle minimalist buildings that I am researching, with their concrete and steel frames, flat roofs and glass walls, never became the dominant mode of twentieth century building. We have continued to build the vast majority of houses in a traditional and conservative idiom, so that these great examples of modern architecture, designed by the likes of Gropius, Loos and Breuer to name but a few, are still shocking and surprising today in their boldness and modernity, almost a hundred years after they were built.

By rediscovering and reinventing these architectural gems and bringing them to life again with the brush, Burgess is breathing fresh life into this critical area of modernism and deepening his own exploration of the meeting points between representation and abstraction.

Alongside the large-scale paintings Burgess creates collages which reflect his love of vintage graphics, particularly those from the 1930s -50s, a “golden age” in American graphic design and advertising. Burgess has been collecting vintage American ephemera for many years; this ephemera is then unapologetically deconstructed, cut up into tiny pieces and reconstructed into visual and verbal poems, dazzling multi-colored pop art pieces, and constructed cityscapes.

In January 2012, Burgess had his first museum exhibit Paper City at The University of Arizona Museum of Art. In 2014, Burgess had his first solo New York exhibition at Site 109. In 2016, he was invited to collaborate with master printmakers at Tandem Press in Madison, Wisconsin to develop a body of work in various printmaking media. Burgess had a pivotal year in 2018 with a solo exhibit, Mid-century Perspectives, at the Tucson Museum of Art, and also the publication of his first monograph Modernist House Paintings: Andy Burgess by Nazraeli Press.
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Andy Burgess
Falling Water, 2012
Le Corbusier, 2013
Wexler Noir, 2015
Kaufman House, 2015

Hong Kong Abstraction, 2016
Box House, 2017
Brooklyn Bridge, 2017
Butterfly House II, 2017
Palm Springs House II, 2017
Wexler Noir, 2017
Bank of America on Broadway, 2018
Blue Retreat, 2018
California living, 2018
Color House IV, 2018
Deco on Broadway, 2018
Hirsch's Shoes, 2018
Hotel Westerner, 2018
Rietveld Schroder at Night, 2018
Welcome Diner, Tucson, 2018
Wexler House with Zig Zag Roof III, 2018
Ridgeline House, Pasadena, 2019
The Green Pool, 2019
Coronet Motel, 2019
Greek Modern, 2019
Wexler Family Home, 2019
Wexler Family Home, Blue Walls, 2019
 Kaufmann House, 2022
Villa Taddei, 2022
 Diamond City, 2023
Guggenheim Abstract
Ronette Riley
South Bank

Friday, May 9, 2025

Artist of the Day, April 9, 2025: Mike Gough, an emerging Canadian artist, painter (#2274)

Born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Mike Gough (1985) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 2007 and graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London with a Master of Fine Arts in 2010. 

Gough’s interest in the elusive quality of memory has always been an invariable interest in his art practice. Rooted in memories of his upbringing in Newfoundland, Gough’s paintings are autobiographical but carry universal narratives. In the absence of detail, there is an opportunity for one’s own memories to develop. An expansive solitude and sense of isolation are met with a universal feeling of what it means to belong. At its core, his practice explores how our relationship with the natural world connects and defines us.

Gough has exhibited both nationally and internationally in over 40 exhibitions and his work appears in private, corporate, and public collections in England and Canada, including The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Humber College, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, The City of St. John’s, and Global Affairs Canada. Prominent collectors include the United Arab Emirates Royal Family.

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 Red House, Fogo, 2024
Home Near The Lake, 2024
Where We Lived, 2023
When I Was Younger, 2023
West Coast, 2023
Wait For Me Here, 2023
Travellers, 2023
 The Way Home, 2023
The Day Is Long, 2023
Summer Story, 2023
Preservation, 2023
Once Was, 2023
October 1, 2023
Loft On The Peninsula, 2023
Leaving Town, 2023
It Will Be Okay, 2023
Into The Dark, 2023
In the Wind, 2023
Fog Over Us, 2023
Day End, 2023
Changing, 2023
Around The Bay, 2023
 Already Gone, 2 2023
 All This Time, 2023
A Promise, 2023
The Time Between, 2022
Somewhere Between, 2022
 How We Remember #4 (Through a Window), 2022
How We Remember #2 (Vase with Flowers), 2022
Certainty of tides, 2019