Barrington R DeMers
4855 27th St W
Bradeton
USA (United States)
941 756-9527
Barydemers.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Mischtechnik
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
Barrington R. DeMers has been living and working in Bradenton Florida since 1983. Miro, Salvador Dali and Vincent Van Gogh are some of the artists that have inspired his contemporary style in his artwork. He is especially interested in the interaction of the color and form in his abstract expressionist style. He is known by his friends as the "the pixel pusher" because he paints digitally by moving pixels of color on the computer screen with his digital paint brushes.
Bary said, "I grew up living close to New York City and the MOMA and was exposed to many modern art styles. I would look at Miro's artwork with a childs's view and see very playful marks as open, expansive, indeterminate. I also look to Van Gogh for whom color was the chief symbol of expression. I like to think that my digital modernistic style is like that of Van Gogh's inimitable, fusion of form and emotion to help the viewer experience the spiritual essence of man and nature in dark times."
Bary's digital works of art are Giclée's prints on canvas or paper and are created and printed using state of the art digital technology.
Bary has done many exhibitions in the South West Florida area and has won numerous awards and honors including Honorable Mention in the 2D 3D exhibition 2003 at the Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers, the Digital Age Art Exhibition 2000 at Venice Art Center and best of show for Digital Fine Artists Association 2000 show at Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Art Education
Newark School of Industrial Art and Design: 1967 - 1969, Certificate in Interior Design.
Brookline School of Woodworking: 1977 - 1978, Wood Carving.
Indiana University 1981 - 1982, Liberal Arts.
Manatee Community College 1983 - 1985, Computer Programming.
Ringling School of Arts and Design Continuing Education 1996 -, Fine Arts.
Art Associations
Digital Fine Arts Association - Bradenton / Sarasota Florida, USA.
Sarasota Visual Arts Center - Sarasota Florida, USA.
Sarasota Arts Center - Sarasota Florida, USA.
Art Target - Sarasota Florida, USA.
Brown County Crafts Guild - Nashville Indiana, USA.
Professional Experience
President of Art Uptown, Inc. Gallery Sarasota Florida, USA - 2009
Treasurer Digital Fine Art Association 1996 -.
President of Bayshore Home Owners Association. Bradenton Florida, USA 1988 - 1992.
Interior Designer 1967 - 1971, Contempo House Wanamassa, New Jersey, USA.
Furniture Designer and Woodworker - Boston Massachusetts, USA 1971 - 1978.
Artist and Craftsman - Nashville Indiana, USA 1978 - 1982.
Computer Specialist - Bradenton Florida, USA 1986 -.
Awards
• Honorable Mention - Alliance for the Arts Fort Myers, Florida 2003
• 3rd Place - Art League of Manatee County, Florida 2002
• 1st Place - Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Arts & Design, Sarasota Florida 2000.
• Best of Show - Paradox Gallery, Sarasota, Florida 2000.
• 3rd Place - Venice Arts Center, Venice Florida 2000.
• 3rd Place - Hot Summer Cool Art, Art Target, Sarasota Florida 1999.
• Honorable Mention - Women's Resource Center, Sarasota Florida 1999.
• Honorable Mention - Power of Pixel III Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota Florida 1999.
One-Person Show
Cartridge World Gallery, Metrowest -Orlando, Florida, USA 2003. Art Uptown, Inc., Sarasota, Florida, USA, 2006
Commissioned Artwork
Mural – For the Home of Alan Silverman New Jersey, USA, 1969.
Mural – For the Home of Steve Goodman New Jersey, USA 1970.
Art Purchased for Institutional Collections
Digital Painting – Manatee Community College - Science Department Art Gallery, 1997.
Workshops Attended (USA)
Herbie Rose - Watercolor Painting.
Ginger White - Pastels.
Charlott Schultz - Drawing with Charcoal.
Cathleen Carrillo - Figure Drawing.
Larry Fogard - Figure Drawing.
Karen Sullivan - Basics of Digital Painting.
Rob Demperio - Working in Photoshop.
Lectures given by Barrington R. DeMers
Digital Fine Arts Association - Symposium - Collaborative Digital Painting Over the Internet 1997.
Venice Arts Center - The Creation of Digital Art using Photoshop and Fractal Painter 5 1999.
Digital Fine Arts Association - Overview of Brushes and Textures in Fractal Painter 5 - 1999.
Digital Fine Arts Association - Painting with Fractal Painter 5 - 2000.
Membership in Professional Cooperative Art Gallery
Uptown Gallery – Sarasota, Florida
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