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Hannah Burr:
On, Around and Through
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Library Study, Boston 11-03, 2004
Mixed media on paper
10 X 8 inches
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| Hannah Burr's earlier work used linear
gestures embedded in the surfaces of her paintings and works on
paper to suggest the essence of distant rolling horizons or the
tracery of aerial perspective. The impression of landscape was
enhanced by the enigmatic sense of scale and the ambiguous format of
her subjects. Burr's recent works currently on view, retain many of
the strategies observed before, but are now aligned to the lyric
economy of Japanese brushwork and the spontaneity of Western action
painting. Airy, light filled spaces are traversed by
improvisational, quixotic lines juxtaposed with areas of pooled,
saturated color. Burr's restrained reveries are now a more general
inquiry into what is revealed by the conjunction of the artist's
working process with the materials she has chosen. Burr describes
her work as: "an exploration or reinterpretation of an experience in
a language of marks, layers, and materials with each physical piece
representing a recorded event, a particular movement, behavior or
sound translated into a specific mark on paper. My drawings include
folds, punctures, dips in ink or paint, pencil marks and raised
points of dimensional paint. At the conclusion of every piece, I
have moved into a more intuitive and formal consideration of
composition, while attempting to remain faithful to what was
initially observed."
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Petah Coyne: Photographs
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Untitled (#1038-01), 2001
Silver gelatin print
14 X 11 inches
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| Also on view this month are a selection of small scale black and
white silver gelatin photographs by Petah Coyne. The artist
is known for her richly layered sculptures integrating taxidermy,
bows, flowers and female figures. Her works explore the territory
between the visible and invisible and questions issues of
femininity, faith and traditional representational strategies in
sculpture and photography. |
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