the works shown above range in size from 24" to 6" wide
EXHIBITION: SEPT 17 - OCT 22 2022
ALIVE
Barickuda Gallery
7885 Jackson Rd. Suite 1
Ann Arbor MI 48103
Open for events and by appointment.
Please contact 617 686 4016 for appointments.
OPENING Saturday, September 17, 4-6:30 pm
Hannah will be raffling off one of her limited edition calendars to all comers (sent to you later) and will say a brief hello at 5.
PANEL CONVERSATION + STUFF SWAP! With Roz Sharp and Katie Shulman Saturday,
October 8, 3-6:00 pm
This informal panel conversation with fiber artists Sarah Rose Sharp, Katie Shulman and Hannah Burr is followed by a Stuff Swap for registered attendees. Join the conversation: How piles of stuff factor into, dominate, overwhelm and fuel our creative processes and lives as human beings. We know you have a lot to say, and perhaps to give away. Come join us! Attendees- please register in advance as spots are limited (and free). To reserve spots, email Hannah.
CLOSING and ARTIST'S TALK at 5 Saturday, October 22, 4:30- 6 pm
Artist's Talk, Q&A, warm drinks, treats and conversation.
Talk starts at 5 on the nose.
'Bee Asleep', Stand In Series. Found objects, legend. 10 x 8 x 6" 2022.
STATEMENT
This exhibition is three concurrent projects by Hannah Burr: paintings, peg drawings, and Stand In sculptures, all created within the past year. While working in tandem on these projects, I was struck by a bright kind of presence I felt in them, and in the conversation they seemed to be having with one another. I took this exhibition as an opportunity to explore that conversation more deeply.
The Puffy Paintings and the Peg Drawings are for me a form of color and texture therapy, and deep play. The paintings are poured acrylic on upholstered wood, with found cottons, sometimes hand dyed, in place of canvas. While a given painting comes off beautifully, it often it asks for patience, curiosity, and surrender as the painting has a mind of its own and looks completely different stage to stage - never what I planned.
The Peg Drawings include in their composition both the hole and the wooden peg, and like the paintings, celebrate the materials and the happy accidents that come out of caring for, playing with and considering single pieces of paper and how they complete each other or are complete in themselves. I have always loved paper as its own form, and often float frame a drawing to honor it’s object-ness. An obsession with things with holes in them, my drill press, and blurring lines between the art and its supporting structures has culminated in these delicate objects.
The Stand In sculptures use somewhat random objects to express ineffable, personal experiences. Sometimes, the experiences mapped through these objects are poignant and moving; sometimes they are awkward and difficult, and or hard to recollect at all. A wink, the last visit with someone, a sudden convergence of events, are clumsily broken down into aspects, and paired through a legend, to an object.
STATEMENT
This exhibition is three concurrent projects by Hannah Burr: paintings, peg drawings, and Stand In sculptures, all created within the past year. While working in tandem on these projects, I was struck by a bright kind of presence I felt in them, and in the conversation they seemed to be having with one another. I took this exhibition as an opportunity to explore that conversation more deeply.
The Puffy Paintings and the Peg Drawings are for me a form of color and texture therapy, and deep play. The paintings are poured acrylic on upholstered wood, with found cottons, sometimes hand dyed, in place of canvas. While a given painting comes off beautifully, it often it asks for patience, curiosity, and surrender as the painting has a mind of its own and looks completely different stage to stage - never what I planned.
The Peg Drawings include in their composition both the hole and the wooden peg, and like the paintings, celebrate the materials and the happy accidents that come out of caring for, playing with and considering single pieces of paper and how they complete each other or are complete in themselves. I have always loved paper as its own form, and often float frame a drawing to honor it’s object-ness. An obsession with things with holes in them, my drill press, and blurring lines between the art and its supporting structures has culminated in these delicate objects.
The Stand In sculptures use somewhat random objects to express ineffable, personal experiences. Sometimes, the experiences mapped through these objects are poignant and moving; sometimes they are awkward and difficult, and or hard to recollect at all. A wink, the last visit with someone, a sudden convergence of events, are clumsily broken down into aspects, and paired through a legend, to an object.
