Kevin Burger Memorial

My work turns the act of painting into a process of applying a patina -- creating something new and separate from what was originally there. The image grows through a repetitive process of erasure and recovery. What remains is the essence of the thing - that which fought to survive. To make the transformation more clear, I paint images that are themselves well known or of a familiar genre. The altered view re-presents the scene and allows one to reconsider it anew.
-- Kevin Burger


Sadly we must announce that our friend Kevin Burger passed away peacefully in the morning of 19 January 2006 at his Aunt's house in California after a three year fight with cancer. This memorial site is dedicated to him. It includes photographs gathered from friends and family, tributes, as well as reproductions of his remaining paintings.
photos of Kevin from friends and family as well as some of Kevin's inmitable self-portraits. >>
remembrances & tributes: the guestbook was open for a few of months after Kevin's passing, but spam attacks mandated its closure to more entries. please email <jhopkins [[at]] kevinburger.com> if you would like to add a comment. >>
gallery: a sequential gallery of all remaining paintings in no particular order. of an estimated total production of perhaps 700 works, around 400 remained in Kevin's studio. most of the paintings are presently stored at James' place in Seattle. if you are interested in learning more about any of the works shown, please refer to the index number at the bottom of each page and drop a note to James <burgerjames [[at]] gmail.com>. the galleries below are divided into some of the major categories of Kevin's output, they include the dimensions of the works as well. works that are sold are identified by this red dot >> << >>
short video clip: Kevin's studio, Brooklyn, New York, 15 April 1997 (quicktime movie - 19.9 mb) >>
Bob Conte read this wonderful tribute to Kevin at the Memorial in March 2006 at the Norwegian Seaman's Church in New York.
NOTE FROM WEBMASTER: as part of the process to document Kevin's prodigous output as an artist, if you have any works by him, I would be very interested in including those works in a master catalog I am in the process of creating. I spent two weeks at his studio in Brooklyn during July 2006 making high-resolution photographs of the 450 remaining paintings and assigning a 4-digit number to each one for future reference. The results are the gallery above. If you have a work by Kevin, it'd be great to hear from you with a description -- size, medium, title, when you received it from Kevin, etc, and a photo of the work along with any other data you might have. I'll then assign the work a number and add it to the catalog. Please contact me at jhopkins ((at)) neoscenes.net. Thanks in advance for assisting in this process!
My work turns the act of painting into a process of applying a patina -- creating something new and separate from what was originally there. The image grows through a repetitive process of erasure and recovery. What remains is the essence of the thing - that which fought to survive. To make the transformation more clear, I paint images that are themselves well known or of a familiar genre. The altered view re-presents the scene and allows one to reconsider it anew. -- Kevin Burger
galleries (organized by visual category with dimensions)

Eiffel Tower	Labels	Brooklyn Bridge

Mt. Fuji	Venice	Interiors

Still Life & Others	Geometric	Waves
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