STATEMENT and BIO

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STATEMENT


​My artwork began as a form of abstract landscape painting in 1992. Then, I was capturing the blur and the point in space. In the thirty years since, it has assumed many different forms. Always, I want to reflect the sparkly under-layer of experience. My artwork is how I enthusiastically attempt to share that reflection.

My paintings and works on paper emerge directly from my love and fascination with texture, color, shape and form.

In conceptual art projects I develop playful ways to share experience directly, to ask what is happening in a given situation and to whom, and offer new doorways to subjects that feel complex, inaccessible, or difficult to pin down (like the chemical elements or prayer).

I’ve asked questions like: What happens if you stack a block instead of speaking a thought? Where exactly is a chemical element present? If we’re in the same place at the same time, are we having the same experience? What do hundreds of responses to one work of art look like? And, let’s send love to everyone we can think of, via wooden blocks, for the next thirty minutes.

Each piece assumes whatever form and media expresses it best. This includes painting, drawing, sculpture, books, installation, video and documentation of any time based work. The projects may be collaborative and site specific, or become an invitation to interact, or a home practice for the viewer. In painting I still work with pure abstraction and abstract landscape.

I return always to pouring paint, creating a satisfying base surface, making a mark and drawing a line.                                                                                                                                               - H. Burr 2022
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PHOTO - ABBY ROSE

BIOGRAPHY
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PHOTO - ABBY ROSE

Contemporary artist Hannah Burr lives in Ann Arbor Michigan. She is an exhibiting contemporary artist and the author of four books about direct connection to inspiration and new ways of seeing and being in the world. Hannah is a graduate of Brown University in Fine Art and Religious Studies

Hannah’s artwork has been on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Currier Museum New Hampshire, the Drawing Center New York, and both the Danforth and Rose Art Museums in greater Boston, MA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally through Artlink@Sotheby's. She has received grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and is a former MacDowell Colony Resident. Hannah has been represented by Judy Goldman Fine Art Gallery, Boston MA, Barbara Singer Fine Art Cambridge MA, and Judith Leighton Gallery, Bluehill ME.       

Her artist books, conceptual art projects in book form, include 
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Contemporary Prayers to whatever works 2021 Edition, (2021) Simon &Schuster
the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere (2019) Fifth Avenue Press
Help me [   ], do the thing (2016)
Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] (2013)