“Burgers’ practice is an envelope of art historical shorthand’s, the most everlasting of its canonical teachings readily apparent, especially in terms of how time can be built into the picture plane. She zooms across our pictorial history, from the delicate articulation of Chinese scroll painting to the explosive feeling, depth, and gesture of the baroque; from Cezanne’s fractured still-life to the humid press of Picasso’s found-object collages; from Frankenthaler’s miasmic stains to Hockney’s stalking photojoiners.”

— Sky Goodden

*As Pure and Strange as I Could See #1, Diptych*

“For me painting is the acceptance of change, and I grapple with that visibly on the canvas as much as I do in my lived life. I find that with painting there’s never a perfect moment in time where you have “it”, and “it” stays that way. Just like when a garden is hitting its peak glory, it’s already tipping over the edge.”

— Bobbie Burgers