BOBBIE BURGERS
BOBBIE BURGERS
NO DRESS REHEARSAL
19 DECEMBER 2025 — 08 FEBRUARY 2026
MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY
NO DRESS REHEARSAL
Known for explorations of color, materiality, and form, Bobbie Burgers expands her established painterly language into an environment of illusion in No Dress Rehearsal. The exhibition centers on Burgers’ trust in immediacy – the instinctive act of making without premeditation. Each work begins as an unplanned gesture, an improvisation in acrylic, oil bar, spray paint, pastel, or collage that unfolds through intuition rather than planning. “Every piece is a leap of faith,” Burgers writes. “There is no perfect run-through, no fixed script – only the act of creation itself, immediate and irretrievable.”
Over the past several years, Burgers has developed a cyclical practice that moves between painting and collage. She begins by creating large-scale paintings on canvas, which she then photographs in high resolution to use as the basis for new compositions. Onto these smooth, printed surfaces, she paints, cuts, and collages –breaking apart her own imagery to reassemble into entirely new mixedmedia collages. The process, at once playful and exacting, mirrors
Burgers’ ongoing dialogue between control and chaos. She describes it as “managing the chaos,” creating multiple scenarios and defining them only in hindsight. Each collage is a visual puzzle of layered gestures and textures, where the original source is often obscured beyond recognition. Far from functioning as copies, the printed reproductions become new grounds for exploration, their subtle shifts in color and surface generating momentum that allows Burgers to open fresh windows into abstraction and construct three-dimensional illusions that inform her painting practice.
While Burgers’ work has long drawn on the language of florals, in No Dress Rehearsal the botanical references dissolve into abstraction. Her florals, once literal, now function as vehicles for color and emotion, embodying strength rather than fragility. For Burgers, the work is no longer centered on subject matter, but on the medium; the dynamic interplay of color, form, and
material as these elements interact, collide, and evolve. Burgers embraces imperfection as essential to creation, and the resulting works embody faith in process and in the beauty of the unresolved, allowing for an openended conversation between chance and intention, discipline and freedom.
Bobbie Burgers is a Canadian artist known for her vibrant, process-driven explorations of color, gesture, and abstraction. Trained at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design with a BA in Art History from the University of Victoria, she has exhibited widely across Canada, the United States, and abroad, including recent shows at Equinox Gallery (Vancouver), Nicholas Metivier Gallery (Toronto), and Caldwell Snyder Gallery (California). Her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections, among them Global Affairs Canada, the Royal Bank of Canada, and Emaar Properties. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver.
IMAGINED FUTURE, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 110 inches
UNCONTROLLED NARRATIVE, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches
THE STORMS
60
CALM
OF WINTER NO. 2, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
x 68 inches
FLICKER NO. 2, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
LINGER NO. 1, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 48 inches
LINGER NO. 2, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 2, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
48 x 36 inches
NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 4, 2025
Mixed media collage on paper
48 x 36 inches
NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 5, 2025
Mixed media collage on paper
48 x 36 inches
NO DRESS REHEARSAL NO. 6, 2025
Mixed media collage on paper
Mixed media collage on paper
40 x 30 inches
FLORAISON NO. 3, 2024
Mixed media collage on paper
40 x 30 inches
FLORAISON NO. 4, 2024
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
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
Snyder Gallery, St.Helena, CA
2020 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
2019
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
2018 Perception of Sound, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bobbie Burgers: New Work, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2017 Impure Crystals, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
An Outline Broken, Cohim Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 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
2015 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
2014
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,
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
2013 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
2012 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
2011 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
2010 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
2009 Ungovernable Memories, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC
Force of Nature, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Ritual, Bau-Xi Gallery,
Toronto, ON
Revolution in the Garden, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 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
2007 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
2006
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
2005 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
2004
The Secret Language of Flowers, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montréal Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
In the Moment, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
Galerie St.Laurent & Hill, Ottawa
Eden, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
L’Opera des Fleurs, A and C
Fine Art, Rhode Island, US
2003 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
2002 Bleu Provence, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
Waltz, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Galerie St. Laurent & Hill, Ottawa
Gallery Susan de Witt
-Naples, Florida
2001 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
2000 Four Seasons, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver In Full Bloom, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
Insousiance, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto
1999 Seasons, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto
Summer Exhibit, Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
Bacchanalia, Diane Farris, Vancouver
1998 Parterre, Hollander York Gallery, Toronto 1996
Studio Exhibit, Vancouver Shadow Boxing, Ioni Studios,
Vancouver
1996 Colorfields, Ioni Studios, Vancouver
1995 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
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This catalog complements Bobbie Burgers’s Exhibition NO DRESS REHEARSAL
Maya Frodeman Gallery
19 December 2025 - 09 February 2026
© 2025 All Rights Reserved
No.3, (detail), 2024, Mixed media collage on paper
Floraison
