Debra Burger

Burger ran her own marketing communications firm, serving as the principal, art director and graphic designer. She also served as a faculty member in the Graphic Design Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. Later in her career, she was an art and photography educator for teens and adults. Debra’s work includes design, photography, collage, mixed media, and fiber arts. Living on a small, wooded lake in Connecticut, she is usually kayaking or hiking, and collecting from the woods or in her shade garden.

As a photographer and graphic designer, I challenged myself to create a series of images from specimens that I grew or collected in my garden. This endeavor presents the perfect blend of two of my passions, photography and horticulture. My approach in the Botanicals series looks at my garden through a close-up view of color, form, and texture. I developed this unusual approach to capturing images without a conventional camera, instead, I employ a flatbed scanner. This allows for greater-than-life scale and clarity of minute details, resulting in a unique perspective for the viewer. My Botanicals series shows objects abstracted against a stark black background, allowing the mystery of nature to rise to the forefront.

Memorial Art Gallery, Finger Lakes Art Show

Rochester Institute of Technology, Faculty Show

Link Gallery, solo show

Rochester City Hall Little Gallery solo show Rochester NY

Image City Gallery. Group Show. Rochester. NY

Nazareth University Arts Center Gallery, Rochester, NY, Side by Side, 2015

Image City Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2015

Cultural Alliance of Western CT: Danbury City Center, solo show, Danbury City Hall solo show, Bethel Library, solo show

City of Danbury, Out of the Box, 2016

Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT:

Color 2022

Picturing Our Past, 2022

Art Walk, 2022

12^th Annual Members Juried Show, 2022

Camerworks, 2023 (first place)

46^th Annual Juried Show, 2023

Celebrate 50, 2024

47^th Annual Juried Show, 2024

Members Show, 2024

Art in the Garden, 2024

A New Start, 2025

2-1-2 Juried Show, 2025

Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, solo show, 2024

Tiny Art Gallery, University Park, MD Botanicals, 2024

D.Colabella Fine Art Gallery, Ridgefield, CT, Nature in Focus, 2024

Ridgefield Playhouse, solo show, 2024

Silvermine Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT:

New Members Show 2024

Metamorphosis, 2024

Members Show, 2024

Color Me…, 2025

Represented by

Ridgefield Guild of Artists

Silvermine Guild of Artists

Edward Hopper House Museum

D.Colabella Fine Art Gallery

CT

USA