Bobbie Burgers

B O B B I E B U RG ER S

19 DECEMBER 2025 — 08 FEBRUARY 2026

B O B B I E B U RG E R S NO DRESS REHE ARSAL

MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY

NO DRESS REHE ARSAL Known

for

explorations

of

color,

itself, immediate and irretrievable.”

materiality, and form, Bobbie Burgers expands

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her

established

painterly

Over the past several years, Burgers

language into an environment of illusion

has developed a cyclical practice that

in No Dress Rehearsal. The exhibition

moves between painting and collage.

centers on Burgers’ trust in immediacy

She begins by creating large-scale

– the instinctive act of making without

paintings on canvas, which she then

premeditation. Each work begins as an

photographs in high resolution to use

unplanned gesture, an improvisation in

as the basis for new compositions.

acrylic, oil bar, spray paint, pastel, or

Onto these smooth, printed surfaces,

collage that unfolds through intuition

she

rather than planning. “Every piece

breaking apart her own imagery to

is a leap of faith,” Burgers writes.

reassemble into entirely new mixed-

“There is no perfect run-through, no

media

fixed script – only the act of creation

once playful and exacting, mirrors

paints,

cuts,

collages.

and

The

collages

process,

–

at

Burgers’ ongoing dialogue between

material as these elements interact,

control and chaos. She describes it

collide, and evolve. Burgers embraces

as “managing the chaos,” creating

imperfection as essential to creation,

multiple scenarios and defining them

and the resulting works embody faith

only in hindsight. Each collage is a

in process and in the beauty of the

visual puzzle of layered gestures and

unresolved, allowing for an open-

textures, where the original source is

ended conversation between chance

often obscured beyond recognition. Far

and intention, discipline and freedom.

from functioning as copies, the printed reproductions become new grounds for

Bobbie Burgers is a Canadian artist

exploration, their subtle shifts in color

known for her vibrant, process-driven

and surface generating momentum

explorations of color, gesture, and

that allows Burgers to open fresh

abstraction. Burgers has shown work

windows

and

internationally in Sweden, China and

construct three-dimensional illusions

the across the US, recently at the

that

Dallas and Toronto Art Fairs. Today, her

into

inform

her

abstraction painting

practice.

works are in many notable collections, While Burgers’ work has long drawn

including Global Affairs Canada, the

on the language of florals, in No Dress

Royal Bank of Canada, Vancouver

Rehearsal the botanical references

General Hospital, Nordstrom’s New

dissolve into abstraction. Her florals,

York and Norwegian Cruise Lines. This

once literal, now function as vehicles

exhibition is running concurrently to

for color and emotion, embodying

a museum show of primarily works

strength

For

on paper and wall sculptures at the

Burgers, the work is no longer centered

Burnaby Art Gallery in Vancouver,

on subject matter, but on the medium;

which is an extension of the body of

the dynamic interplay of color, form, and

work present in No Dress Rehearsal .

rather

than

fragility.

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IMAGINED FUTURE, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 65 x 110 inches

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UNCONTROLLED NARRATIVE, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 inches

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CALM THE STORMS OF WINTER NO. 2, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 68 inches

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FLICKER NO. 2, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 inches

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LINGER NO. 1, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 30 x 48 inches

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LINGER NO. 2, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 inches

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NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 2, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 inches

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NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 4, 2025 Mixed media collage on paper 48 x 36 inches

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NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 5, 2025 Mixed media collage on paper 48 x 36 inches

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NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 6, 2025 Mixed media collage on paper 48 x 36 inches

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FLORAISON NO. 3, 2024 Mixed media collage on paper 40 x 30 inches

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FLORAISON NO. 4, 2024 Mixed media collage on paper 40 x 30 inches

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BOBBIE BURGERS Born 1973, Vancouver, BC Lives and works in Vancouver EDUCATION 1997 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C. 1996 BA Art History, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. 1992 Université D’étudiantes Étrangères, Aix-en-Provence, France

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2025 No Dress Rehearsal. Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY A Feverish Dream, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Bobbie Burgers: Iterations, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC Enfleurage, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON 2024 A Window or a Mirror, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC Time Flows Through Narrows Spaces, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Montecito and St.Helena, CA 2023 Winged Victory, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON Partly Truth, Partly Fiction, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2022 Forest for the Trees, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC The After Party, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Between Always and Never, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON Transcribing the Elements, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 2021 The Hard Work of Spring, West Vancouver Art Museum, West Vancouver, BC Storms & Calm Waters, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON Folding Outwards, Caldwell

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

Snyder Gallery, St.Helena, CA Natural Disorder, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC The Tender and the Unnerving, Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA Float Like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON Sheltered State, Ferry Building Gallery, Vancouver, BC Maximalist Minimalist, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Fragile State, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC Recent Paintings, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Perception of Sound, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bobbie Burgers: New Work, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC Impure Crystals, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC An Outline Broken, Cohim Gallery, Beijing, China Bitter Sweet, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Bobbie Burgers: Lightly Touch Down, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON Bobbie Burgers, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC Innocent Disobedience, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Seeds of Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON A Beautiful Rebellion, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC A Quiet Revolution, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC S.D.45 One, West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver, BC Suspended Between Sweetness and Sorrow, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA The Stories That We Tell, Couture Galleri, Stockholm,

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

Sweden ExpoChgo, International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, Chicago, IL Lovely Figure, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON Stories That We Tell, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden Eternalism, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA Days of Dreams and Visions, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA Alchemy, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC An Involuntary & Unconscious Memoir, Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, ON Love’s Quarrel, Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden Wanton, Wild, Reckless, Abandonment, Campton Gallery, New York, NY Arriving at a Landscape, BauXi Gallery, Toronto, ON The Here & Now, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC Bobbie Burgers, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC Your Abstraction Brings me Clarity, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC Speak to Me with Flowers, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC In Defence of Poetry, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB Figurative Sense, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA Bobbie Burgers, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC Cross Pollination, Campton Gallery, New York, NY Parfume, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON Haven, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC Ungovernable Memories, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC Force of Nature, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC Ritual, Bau-Xi Gallery,

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Toronto, ON Revolution in the Garden, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA A View from Villa Delia, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, California Grandiflora, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON St-Laurent & Hill Gallery, Ottawa, ON Dreaming in Colour, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB The Emotion of Colour, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC Virtue, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Illumination, Galerie de Bellefuille, Montréal, QC Language of Love, Foster White Gallery, Seatle, WA Under an Endless Sky, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON Awakening, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC Galerie St-Laurent & Hill, Ottawa, ON Lusciously Orchestrated, BauXi Gallery, Vancouver, BC Eternal Sunshine, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal, QC Perennial Obsessions, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON Spring Fever, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB Hand Picked, St-Laurent & Hill Gallery, Ottawa, ON Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal Anatomy of a Love Affair, Foster White Gallery, Seattle Rites of Spring, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON Hubert Gallery, New York The Neverending Story, BauXi, Vancouver The Secret Language of Flowers, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta In the Moment, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON

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2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

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Galerie St.Laurent & Hill, Ottawa Eden, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver L’Opera des Fleurs, A and C Fine Art, Rhode Island, US Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Tulip Fields from La Conner, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto Salon Hanging, Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Dessert, California Souvenirs, Vanderleelie Gallery Edmonton, Alberta Beauty Myth, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver Lost Garden, Gallery Susan de Witt, Naples, Florida Remember, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal Bleu Provence, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto Waltz, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa Gallery Susan de Witt -Naples, Florida Love Songs: November, BauXi Gallery, Vancouver Exotica: A Small Collection of Still Lifes, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta From Near and Far, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto Saturation, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton Four Seasons, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver In Full Bloom, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton Insousiance, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto Seasons, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto Summer Exhibit, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton Bacchanalia, Diane Farris, Vancouver Parterre, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto 1996 Studio Exhibit, Vancouver Shadow Boxing, Ioni Studios,

1996 1995

Vancouver Colorfields, Ioni Studios, Vancouver Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver Waterworks and Pathways, Studio, Vancouver

COLLECTIONS Global Affairs Canada Royal Bank of Canada Vancouver General Hospital Berost Corp., Toronto, ON Capital Box of Ottawa Ltd., Toronto, ON Chairman Mills, Toronto, ON Gryphon Explorations Limited, Toronto, ON Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto, ON Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Lexington, KY, USA Dudnyk, Horsham, PA, USA Emaar Properties, Dubai, UAE Fraser, Milner & Casgrain LLP, Edmonton, AB InHouse CFO, Surrey, BC Lark Hill Design, Toronto, ON Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver, BC Liquidity Wines, Okanagan Falls, BC Mackenzie Financial Services Inc., Toronto, ON Magjusjen Holdings, Montreal, QC Manulife Financial, Toronto, ON Medical Mart Supplies, Burlington, ON Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada National Bank Financial Navigare Consulting Inc., Richmond Hill, ON Nordstrom’s, New York, NY Norwegian Cruise Lines, NOR Oni One, Toronto, ON Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, ON Pen-Cor Mortgage & Investments, Vancouver, BC Portfolio West, Vancouver, BC Sanmarc Custom Home, Kelowna, BC Scotia McLeod Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto, ON Thornmark Asset Management Inc., Toronto, ON Weber Shandwick, Vancouver, BC

RACHEL TOPHAM

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MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY 66 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING TEL 307 733 0555

This catalog complements Bobbie Burgers’s Exhibition NO DRESS REHEARSAL Maya Frodeman Gallery 19 December 2025 - 09 February 2026

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Floraison No.3, (detail), 2024, Mixed media collage on paper

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