Alon Zakaim Fine Art

Andy Burgess is a contemporary British Artist who spends his time traveling to different urban locations throughout the world, where he draws inspiration form the vibrant energetic scenes he encounters. His large acrylic on canvas cityscapes play with perspective, displaying a quirky vision of international urban living. Concentrating mainly on the shapes of buildings and the vertical punctuation of the skyline, he creates a patchwork quilt of colour. Andrew Burgess encourages us to reexamine the way we view our urban environment by transforming the everyday into the monumental.

Burgess follows in a long line of modern British painters of the city that include David Bomberg, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, but his aesthetic is markedly different, and his choice of subject more eclectic. He has become known for seeking out high vantage points, where, removed from the hustle and bustle, he explores the complex geometry and intersecting planes of the streets and building below. The highlight of his September 2000 Cork Street exhibition entitled "View from the Tower" was a quirky riverside panorama from the top of The Oxo Tower, cheerfully assembling the famous skyline around St. Paul's in a patchwork of shape and colour and an impressive panorama of the Boston skyline panning out to the Charles River. A show the following year, entitled "City Heights" also included views from the very top of St. Paul's Cathedral, and the Empire State Building in New York.

"The paintings are exuberant and celebratory.... quirky and individualistic. Andrew Burgess is a painter who does adventurous things with ones view of the world."

Kazuo Ishiguro, Modern Painters