The Torrington Project
From 2021-2024 Tom Burr occupied an expansive former factory building in Torrington, Connecticut, where he has arranged examples of all phases of his work, carefully positioning them in relation to one another, creating a fluid and ongoing retrospective project. Works that had been dismantled were recreated, large scale installations restaged, and others brought out of Burr’s own archival storage, with special attention given to works from his early history with American Fine Arts, CO.
New bodies of work developed in this exhibition/studio incubator, both as a response to the conditions of the space, and in dialogue with the constellation of existing works assembled there.
A forthcoming publication memorializing the Torrington Project will be published by Primary Information in 2025. The book functions as the project’s final element, featuring documentation of Burr’s build-out of the space, alongside the works housed within; the artist’s diaristic writings about his stewardship of the building; and essay contributions from George Baker, Jordan Carter, Aria Dean, Jody Graf, Renée Green, David Joselit, Christine Messineo, and Humberto Moro—all of whom Burr has invited into the project.
For more information, email Lukas Hall (lukas@bortolamigallery.com).
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