Barry Beach
USA (United States)
www.barrybeach.com
Kunstart: Skulptur
Technik: Materialmix
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
I explore the intersection of natural and human constructed environments. I am interested in how these environments affect us physically and psychologically.
The challenges of understanding curves in the earth's surface, topography and mapping, creating organic forms with processed materials, the materiality of everyday life: these are the things that fascinate me and keep me exploring. I imagine my work as "constructing nature.”
The San Francisco Bay Area inspires me with what I call its in-between areas, areas somewhere between city and country, urban and rural, nature and culture. Geographic and physical boarders are ill-defined as cities, water and parkland intermingle. Differentiations between land, sea and sky change throughout the day through cycles of weather and tides. Asphalt, water, forests, buildings, fog, animals, trains, and automobiles coexist, creating new hybrid landscapes. This region is a merger of city, ocean, and park, creating something all together new.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
MFA 2008 - San Francisco Art Institute
BFA 1995 - Rhode Island School of Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Vernissage, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
2005 Transitions, Buckley Center Gallery, University of Portland, Portland, OR, USA
2005 Material Culture, Mirror Pond Gallery, Bend, OR, USA
2001 Accumulations, Nil Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA
2000 Reifications & Substantiations, Johnson City Area Arts Council, Johnson City, TN, USA
SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Raw, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, USA
Curator: John K. Melvin
2008 Transformations, Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008 Ways and Means self-organized independent exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008 New Landscapes, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA
2007 Reconfigurations, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA
2005 Nine Square Grid, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA.
Juror: Emily Silver
2005 Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR, USA.
Jurors: Gerri Ondrizek, Ted Vogel, Namita Wiggers
2001 Nothing & Everything, The Waiting Room Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Juror: Joe del Pesco
2000 Commodity & Contradiction, 4x Gallery, Portland, OR, USA.
Juror: Joe del Pesco
2000 Art On Paper, Maryland Federation of Art Gallery on the Circle, Annapolis, MD, USA.
Juror: Phyllis Rosensweig
1999 Texas National 99, SFA Gallery, Stephen Austin State Univ., Nacogdoches, TX, USA.
Juror: Donald Sultan
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
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Stacked Landscape #1
Skulptur
Materialmix
51 x 76 x 178 cm
2007
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Stacked Landscape #2
Skulptur
Materialmix
97 x 152 x 216 cm
2007
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Hill #6 [Strata]
Skulptur
Materialmix
56 x 97 x 46 cm
2008
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Transitions #1 [Roof]
Skulptur
Holz
366 x 366 x 107 cm
2008
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Hill #5 [Truss Bed]
Skulptur
Materialmix
127 x 249 x 94 cm
2008
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Hill #1 [Urban Carpetbagger]
Skulptur
Materialmix
104 x 104 x 162 cm
2008
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Viewing Nature series
Zeichnung
Filzstift
41 x 30 cm
2007
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