BOOKS by HANNAH BURR

Contemporary Prayers to Whatever Works (Simon & Schuster)
 
the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere 2019 (Fifth Avenue Press)

Help me [   ], do the thing.

Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] 

The new 2021 volume of Contemporary Prayers! 

This new book, the third in the series, has 208 pages, 80 new prayers and corresponding ink and brush imagery. Published by Tiller Press of Simon & Schuster. Order through my shop here.

This book expands themes of the first two non-religious prayer books by Burr, and responds to the wild and disorienting times with chapters to navigate uncertainty and confusion with presence. 

Publisher: Tiller Press (March 2021)
Length: 208 pages
​6.5 x 5.5”
ISBN13: 9781982154677

Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] 2013 edition

 Burr's original book from 2013 is an artist's book of blunt prayers to nothing-in-particular. Burr uses these prayers to relax and enjoy seismic shifts in her life. They’ve helped her remember, as she forgets repeatedly, that there are larger forces at work, gravity for example, of which she is a part. These prayers help her accept and tap into whatever that is. Order the original book through my shop.

ISBN: 978-0-9889166-0-9
6.5 x 5.5”
128 PAGES
$20

Help me  [  ], do the thing.



 Burr’s Second Book expands audiences from the first, bridging generation, belief, gender, religion. Prized by artists, designers, philosophers, kids, teens, seekers, secularists, and color savorers.
Cover design by ICA Boston’s Creative Director, L.Simon Hayes.
Focus on creative boldness through wordless visual petitions. Learn and see more here. 
Arrived June 2016.

ISBN: 978-0-9889166-1-6
6.5 x 5.5”
128 PAGES
$20


​The Elements: a love letter to
​all things everywhere

​An artist’s book about the elements of the periodic table and our inseparability from  everything, free of scientific jargon and the expert lens. 

This book is extensive register of objects  in which each element can be found, and a playful, accessible introduction to the self in all things through images and words.  Each of us, our stuff, our people, places and things, are born in stars, burning, exploding, and colliding. So far, this has been called science and has been shared with us in expert jargon as if we were all going to be chemists one day. Artist Hannah Burr has written and designed an artists book for everyone to have access to and a direct experience of the chemical elements. ​Learn and see more here.
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Publisher: Fifth Avenue Press (2019)
Length: 428 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9889166-1-6
​8.5 x 6.5”
​Price: $36
PRAISE FOR 'ELEMENTS'
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“Gorgeous, thought provoking, practical, mystical”          –  J. Margo

“The Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere helps humanize science, at a deep level, and at a really important time”                                                                                                             –  K. Berger

“Hannah Burr has mapped out, in color and language, the appearance of the elements in the mundane stuff of our lives. Enjoy this study of interconnectedness.“
                                                                                                         – L. Thomas
P R A I S E    F O R   B U R R ' S    B O O K S :
Very sweet, very open, very alive, honest, real. Thank you for holding space for expression of human experience in relation to ^*)(“””
“I go through periods of carrying Whatever Works around in my jacket pocket as if it were an illuminated manuscript and
I lived in Brugges in the 1490s.”
        —Darin Murphy, Director
           School of the Museum of Fine Arts Library
"I love the second one as much as the first!"
"A book about reframing, asking for help, remembering, and letting go."
"I've been turning to your books a lot lately for words of whatever I need at that moment. So grateful they are in the world."
"Every prayer is completely appropriate for me right now.  Honestly that makes me laugh and feel a little less alone and lost."

STOCKISTS
ICA Boston MA
MOMA PS1 NY
CAC Cincinnati OH
Peabody Essex Museum MA
Portland Museum ME
Holter Museum MO
Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
MOMA Manhattan NY
SFMOMA CA
Carnegie/Warhol Museum OA
Hirshhorn Museum DC
Portland Art museum, OR
LA County Museum of Art LACMA CA
Museum of Contemporary Art LA CA
Museum of Contemp San Diego CA
Wexner Center for the Arts, OH
Des Moines Art Center IA
Columbus Museum of Art OH
Albright Knox NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
​Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Wadsworth Athaneaum Museum of Art, Hartford CT
Nelson Atkins Museum KC MO
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art AZ
Crystal Bridges Museum of Contemp art, Bentonville AR
UC Berkely Berkeley Art Museum CA
Norton Simon Museum of Art Pasadena CA
Salchicha, Bozeman MO

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San Diego Museum of Art CA
New Britain Museum of Am art CT
​Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art MD
Orlando Museum of  FL
Rollins College Cornell Fine Arts Museum FL
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Provincetown Art Association and Museum MA
Worcester Art Museum MA
Broad Art Museum, Michigan State U MI
Grand Rapids Art Museum MI
Minn Center for Book Arts MN
Saint Louis Art Museum MO
Nevada MOA NV
Brooklyn Museum NY
New Temporary Contemporary  PA
Mattress Factory PA
Frist Center for the Visual Arts TN
CAM Houston TX
Menil Collection TX
San Antonio Museum of Art TX
Madison Museum of WI
Whinings Gallery ME
555 Gallery MA
Somes Sound Gallery ME
Lacoste Gallery MA
Esalen Institute CA
Gardner Museum MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA