New York: Group Show Curated by Tom Burr – “Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern” at Bortolami Gallery Through October 27th, 2012
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Image: Now I am quietly waiting… (Exhibition View), Bortolami Gallery
The long, arresting title of Tom Burr’s first show as a curator for Bortolami Gallery takes its inspiration from the poem “Mayakovsky” by Frank O’Hara. In the poem, the author delves into the nature of one’s own identity, and the relationship to other, separate, identities that surround us in our daily lives. Taking this text as a jumping off point, Tom Burr has assembled a selection of works that are interconnected by his relationships to their creators, be they personal, professional, or merely tangential.