|
STATEMENT
The world and the things that belong to it are as plain as day, and utterly mysterious when you look. 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. |
I use what I care about to invite others to remember what’s closer to them than their own face.
The work has succeeded if it’s easy to enter, and yields complexity if you keep looking. My best work brings 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. |
When it shines, 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? - Hannah Burr, 2017 |
Projects
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 BiographyHannah 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 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 |
2006
Visual Traces of Groups at Work: Room 204 2005 Five Conversations Public Art in Cambridge 2004 On, Around and Through Teaching Artist 2003 Pain/teaching-and-public-art.htmlngs 2003 Distillation 2003 2000 Correspondence 2000 1999 Drawings and Paintings 1999 - 2000 |