Bobbie Burgers
Bobbie Burgers
1973 -
Bobby Burgers is a Canadian contemporary painter best known for her lush florals that are increasingly abstracted. Born in Vancouver, British Colombia in 1973, Burgers received a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Victoria in 1996, and attended summer sessions at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.

During her 20 years of practice, her paintings have moved from depictions of vivid, realistic bouquets and landscapes to large-scale blooms that verge on abstraction. She went from painting portraits of flowers to a more instinctual place, where flowers are anything but still. Achieved through loose gestural brush-strokes, bold colouration and thickly applied layers of paint, her work studies the relationship between nature and art, and its continuing transformation. Although mainly a painter, Burgers has included new mediums in her artistic practice, producing a series of multimedia works on paper and ceramic sculptures, such as the anemone wall installation at the Simons department store in Park Royal, West Vancouver.

Burgers is a mainly self-taught artist who credits her parents, both Dutch immigrants, for their love of design, contemporary esthetics and what she calls a “typical Dutch sense of equality between men and woman,” as her biggest life influences. She also lists artist Joan Mitchell whose colours and combative personality intrigued her, as an inspiration for her work.

Featured in galleries and art fairs across North America and Asia, Burgers is an artist of international stature whose work has been exhibited at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver and Art New York
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Hysteria #3 by Bobbie Burgers sold for $40,250
Bobbie Burgers
Hysteria #3
78 x 96 in, 198.1 x 243.8 cm
acrylic and pastel on canvas
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CDN
Sold for: $40,250 CDN (premium included)
Vancouver Art Gallery Art Auction 2021 | Spring Forward on Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Floating Upwards in our Heedlessness by Bobbie Burgers sold for $28,125
Bobbie Burgers
Floating Upwards in our Heedlessness
52 x 52 in, 132.1 x 132.1 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CDN
Sold for: $28,125 CDN (premium included)
West Coast: 20th Century & Contemporary Art on Saturday, June 02, 2018
It Begins with a Smile by Bobbie Burgers sold for $25,000
Bobbie Burgers
It Begins with a Smile
40 x 88 in, 101.6 x 223.5 cm
acrylic on canvas (triptych)
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for: $25,000 CDN (premium included)
Town & Country on Thursday, May 27, 2021
Untitled by Bobbie Burgers sold for $22,500
Bobbie Burgers
Untitled
48 x 48 in, 121.9 x 121.9 cm
acrylic on canvas
Estimate: $12,000 - $16,000 CDN
Sold for: $22,500 CDN (premium included)
Art Now on Thursday, September 29, 2022
The Earth Laughs in Flowers by Bobbie Burgers sold for $20,000
Bobbie Burgers
The Earth Laughs in Flowers
72 x 96 in, 182.9 x 243.8 cm
acrylic on canvas (triptych)
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000 CDN
Sold for: $20,000 CDN (premium included)
West Coast Modern & Contemporary on Thursday, March 25, 2021
Untitled: Blues by Bobbie Burgers sold for $18,750
Bobbie Burgers
Untitled: Blues
84 x 48 in, 213.4 x 121.9 cm
acrylic on canvas
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000 CDN
Sold for: $18,750 CDN (premium included)
Spring Curated on Thursday, May 26, 2022
Symphony by Bobbie Burgers sold for $17,700
Bobbie Burgers
Symphony
48 x 48 in, 121.9 x 121.9 cm
acrylic on canvas
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 CDN
Sold for: $17,700 CDN (premium included)
March 2016 - 3rd session on Thursday, March 31, 2016
Organic Percussion by Bobbie Burgers sold for $16,250
Bobbie Burgers
Organic Percussion
48 x 60 in, 121.9 x 152.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for: $16,250 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Thursday, November 28, 2019
Retreat by Bobbie Burgers sold for $15,000
Bobbie Burgers
Retreat
72 x 60 in, 182.9 x 152.4 cm
acrylic on canvas
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000 CDN
Sold for: $15,000 CDN (premium included)
Important Canadian Art on Thursday, November 26, 2020
Sleeping in Your Soul by Bobbie Burgers sold for $13,750
Bobbie Burgers
Sleeping in Your Soul
48 x 60 in, 121.9 x 152.4 cm
acrylic on canvas
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for: $13,750 CDN (premium included)
West Coast Modern & Contemporary on Thursday, March 25, 2021