HANNAH BURR
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  • ABOUT
    • CONTACT
    • Statement + Bio
    • CV
    • Reviews
  • PAINTINGS
    • Series
  • PROJECTS
    • Stand In Series
    • END PAPERS
    • Archive
  • BOOKS
    • 2021 Edition: Contemporary Prayers
    • Elements >
      • Elements Curriculum
    • Help me [ ], do the thing.
    • Contemporary Prayers
  • TALKS
    • TALKS
    • Workshops
    • One on one sessions
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Works On Paper
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INSTALLATION -INTERACTION
OBJECT - SCULPTURE
RECENT PAINTINGS
ALL WORK

Recent:   
WORKS ON PAPER
YOU ARE LEGEND
STAND IN SERIES
 CV
REVIEWS


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STATEMENT
​The world and the things that belong to it are as plain as day, and utterly mysterious when you look. 
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My artwork points actively to this odd situation, to what’s happening, the situation itself, experienced directly. I use the things of the world, found and repurposed, in this investigation.

In gestures, placement and marks, using whatever is at hand that I like together, I explore directly: What 
is happening actually? I care about arrangement, composition, color relationship, and form. 
​The work has succeeded if it’s easy to enter, and yields complexity if you keep looking. My best work appears to bring the situation alive in a different way, and you as that situation, alive in a different way.

I value awareness practices which are sometimes called mindfulness, meditation, or direct inquiry. My artwork is either the byproduct of these or new, dynamic forms of practice itself.
The participatory work invites people to remember themselves as part of something greater and freer than what they might have been experiencing a moment before. The works on paper, paintings, and sculpture are a direct invitation.

Recent creative projects introduce the activity of undoing, dispersal, and paring down to this inquiry: what’s the art, where does it reside: in the maker, the viewer, the object, or a record of it’s prior existence?

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- Hannah Burr, 2017

Projects 

Collage
Installation / Interaction
Works on paper / painting
Sculpture / Object
Activity / Performance
Sculpture / Object
Artist Books
Works on paper / painting
Installation / Interaction

List of Work by Year

2017
You Are Legend
Take Apart 

2016
Group Drawings
Dispersal

2015
Situation Series
Help me [  ], do the thing.

2014
Stand In Series
Conglomerates
Geodes/Village People
Clueless
Paintings/Drawings

2013
 
Whatever Works Book Project 

2012 
Fresh Eyes MFA 
Attendant 
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Biography

Hannah Burr is an artist/writer who lives and works in Boston MA.  She’s exhibited her work at the Drawing Center, New York, Currier Museum of Art NH, and  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grantee, Berkshire Taconic Foundations Award Winner and MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has written two artist books since 2013, the first, Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works], sells in over 50 museum shops in 26 states. The second, Help me [  ], do the thing. just came out in 2016. She’s been represented by Judy Goldman Fine Art, Newbury Street Boston, Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge, and the Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill ME. 
2010-2011 
What If Project 
Residue, Swan Day 
Self Help 
Offering Shelf 
Collage

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2009 
Visual Traces: the Urbano Project
Empty Full
Yardsale 


2008 
Visual Traces of Groups at Work: Drawing Center 


2007 
Block Project 
Wall Mark
SpotCount
Rolodex Categories 
Three Variables 



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2006 
Visual Traces of Groups at Work: Room 204

2005 
Five Conversations 
Public Art in Cambridge

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2004 
On, Around and Through 
Teaching Artist

2003
Pain/ngs 2003 
Distillation 2003 

2000

Correspondence 2000 

1999

Drawings and Paintings 1999 - 2000
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