OPENING RECEPTION: Forms in Motion – Emma Kinnison & Hannah Burr

Join us for the Opening Reception of Forms in Motion: Emma Kinnsion and Hannah Burr, on Friday, December 4th from 6-9PM. The duo exhibition explores the conversation between their mediums of sculpture and paintings that emphasis process, color and form.

Emma Kinnison is a Detroit-based sculptor working with steel, creating contemporary pieces that explore movement, emotion, and organic forms, designed to function as a statement element within interior spaces. Her new series explores movement, form, and rhythm. Her artistic practice centers around the transformation of a material primarily considered rigid and industrial into something that feels fluid, expressive, and alive.

She shapes each sculpture to allow the curves and movement of the steel to guide its final form. Although the pieces are three-dimensional abstract shapes, each one develops its own unique energy and personality.

Another important element of her work is color. Bold, hand-applied hues bring another layer of movement and emotion to the sculptures, allowing the material to take on a completely different presence to create a sense of flow, strength, and transformation.

Hannah Burr is a visual artist working in abstract landscape painting in many different forms: painting, drawing, sculpture, books, installation, video.  Her paintings and works on paper emerge directly from a love and fascination with texture, color, shape and form. 

Burr lives and works in Detroit Michigan. She exhibits 2D, 3D and 4D work and is the author of five books about direct connection to inspiration, as well as new ways of seeing and being in the world. Hannah is a graduate of Brown University in Fine Art and Religious Studies, and has studied art at UNM Albuquerque, Sikkim India, and the Rhode Island School of Design as part of her BA.

Her 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, receiving grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Hannah is currently represented by Gallery B in Castine Maine, and by Judy Goldman Fine Art Gallery (Boston MA), Barbara Singer Fine Art (Cambridge MA), and Judith Leighton Gallery, (Bluehill ME) for the life of those galleries.     

On view through January 2027.