Tom Burr
(New Haven, Connecticut, 1963 -)
Brutal Fragment (New Haven)
Date2017
MediumPigment print
DimensionsUnframed: 13 3/16 x 17 15/16 in. (33.5 x 45.6 cm)
Credit LineCenter for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
CopyrightCourtesy the artist and Bortolami, New York.
Object numberCCS2018.6.14
ClassificationsPhotograph
Not on view
DescriptionWorking with artists who were associated with Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co., CCS Bard and Art+Culture Projects have partnered to present specially commissioned limited editions to support The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004).Tom Burr's Brutal Fragment (New Haven) refers to the artist's continued practice of affixing once-modular signifiers - here images of Jim Morrison alongside with Paul Rudolph-designed Brutalist architecture - a process which extrapolates and interpolates upon Burr's sense, and recollection, of autobiography. Burr has said of the incorporation of Brutalism into what had become the de facto appearance civic institutionalization alongside, and its erotic charge: "I was interested in that contradiction; the latent adolescent rebellion of Brutalism." This print frames and reproduces a discrete selection - or fragment - of a 2001 work Brutalist Bulletin Board: itself an important and early work of Burr's 'bulletin boards.'
