Integral to the exhibition are works from the new series of “Clouds,” which are wooden wall panels covered with woolen blankets meticulously arranged and pinned to convey states of comfort and discomfort, order and disarray. These works are shown alongside floor-bound sculptural works that engage notions of containment, biography, and protectionism in the context of public view. The title of the exhibition refers to a childhood location where Burr grew up, where particular instances of trauma and ecstasy were played out, remembered, and then restaged at various moments in the development of his work. This exhibition refers back to that childhood moment, but also to subsequent stages of it’s reimagining, with several of the works are being conscious re-visitations of earlier themes, brought together with the “Clouds.”
Works
Undiagnosed Blue Mood, 2012
Double Hung Window, 2012
his personal effects (black, three), 2012
Playboy, April, 1973, 2012
The Passing of Rose’s Passion, 2012
An Orange Echo, 2012
Baited like Beasts (a moon viewing platform), 2012
his personal effects (long sleeve, blue), 2012
Stanton Street, between Norfolk and Suffolk, 2012