ANDY BURGESS ART

Abstract Paintings and Collage: Andy Burgess

- Paul Eli Ivey on the book Abstract Paintings and Collage by Andy Burgess:

“Andy Burgess is well-known for his paintings and prints inspired by mid-century modernist architecture, but his smaller paintings and collages, as small as 2 by 3 inches, reveal not only an interest in recent art history and theory, but his personal engagement in abstract issues of form, surface, color, pattern, and technique, beyond depiction…”

“… As presented here, these works are small and contained in a small book, but they suggest grand concepts that preoccupied many modernist artists, and reveal a suggestive personal narrative of the artist himself…”

- Paul Eli Ivey continues:

“… Holding a range of creative moments in one’s hand, this book becomes not merely an intimate personal object to be experienced individually and slone, but a concentrated miniaturization of creative time and space. This book is a devotional one, a compendium of meditative acts, and might function like a medieval Book of Hours, as a primer intended to offer an intimate reflection on optical order within a chaotic world of things…”

“… It encourages us to get closer and to see, as Cummings tells us, ‘a stone as small as a world,’ or as William Blake suggests, ‘to see a world in a grain of sand.’ ”

Printed on gorgeous warm-toned paper depicting 59 exceptionally high-quality color reproductions, this irresistable little book displays its contained body of work in a perfectly beautiful fashion.

Published by Nazraeli Press in an edition of 150 copies, including 120 Trade Copies and 30 Collectors Edition sets presented with a signed original collage.

The books dimensions are: 6.6” x 5.4” x 0.3” (168mm x 136mm x 8mm)