[2] Burr attended the Educational Center for the Arts high school, a multi-arts program taught in part by Yale University graduate students.
[3] It is here that Burr became aware of and developed an interest in Minimal and post-Minimalist artists, including Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse and Gordon Matta Clark.
Burr's senior thesis work reflected these influences, by merging sculptural elements with brief poetic texts.
During this time Burr immersed himself in the theoretical writings and conceptual practices that would expand his own work and thinking.
[4] In the late 1990s Burr embarked on a body of work that remains ongoing; derived from the language and forms of both Tony Smith's sculptures, on the one hand, and closed architectural spaces such as bars, cages and boxes.