Bortolami is pleased to present Journal Works by Tom Burr, his tenth solo exhibition at the gallery and the first show dedicated to his titular series. Of the twenty-nine works in the series, approximately half are on view. Burr’s new Journal works elaborate his practice of making wood-mounted collages, also called “bulletin boards” which the artist has produced in various formats since the late 1990s. Culling materials from art history, queer cultures, and his personal life as an artist, Burr places images, texts, items of clothing, and cultural refuse in productive relation to each other. He furthers his material exploration and accumulation using colorful powder-coated aluminum panels, affixing them atop each composition. These shapes are loosely derived from Ellsworth Kelly’s 1957 Sculpture For a Large Wall.