BOBBIE BURGERS

“The dialogue between the incomplete and the imagination is the guiding force behind this new body of work. Winged Victory references the ancient statue of the same name, a historical touchpoint for the allure of the incomplete. Fragmented, the sculpture is more than the imagined whole; not bound by any one form the incomplete becomes infinite through the eye of the viewer. In contemplating the enigmatic nature of Winged Victory I found these qualities in my own work, how the tension between the abstract and the representational invites the viewer to engage in the act of creation by filling the gap between the two. ”

“In marble we see the wind as it ripples through Nike’s dress, we imagine the storm she faces on the prow of her ship as she creates a relationship to an environment entirely in our own heads. At times the march towards abstraction feels like an inevitable unfolding of my career, the ultimate victory of brushstrokes and texture over flowers and petals and stems, but like Winged Victory, this can be seen as an expansion of information, not a loss of it. Perhaps the flower is gone, but you can now see the wind through the blowing of the petals.”