In Black | In White | In Red (2014)
In Black | In White | In Red (2014) Duration: 6:40 A short looping video of words paired with their background, set against three "shades" of noise, in context with the Black White and Red series.
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Light Bass
Light Bass 11x14 Print Light rays through a grating, as a metaphor for a 4-string bass. Prints Available #2014 #angles #black&whitephotography
Curvilinea (2006)
Curvilinea (2006) 15-minute kaleidoscopic collage made from a series of transformed photographs, authored to DVD-Video with three soundtrack options: 1. Asiza 2. Copaxa 3. Psyop’s Mirror Curvilinea by Lee Barry #illusions #patternicity #popart #curves
Mnemonic Walks
Mnemonic Walks (2014) A conceptual series that fuses place with poetry by linking each line in a poem to a specific geolocation, for purposes of memorizing the poem. Once memorized, both place and poem have a circularity in memory. It's not about the technology per se, but rather what the technology allows us to do manually with memory. (Technologies are extension points for the brain.) Mnemonic Walk, No. 1 North on Michigan Avenue from Roosevelt: Beachhead, first walk on land Legs walking in a square Memories of aquatic breathing--inspired without air Mother bought them warm garments--Montgomery Ward wares For equestrian events on holidays--riding on the mares 8th Cavalry riding--rhythms over black stone squares Reached its destination--as the Congress took its share The artist begins to sketch--as cats on the prowl will dare Standing in an attitude of defiance--with tourists there to stare Towers twin now air--Parallel lines, a...
Zones
Zones 11x14 acrylic on cardboard, mounted on panel in 16x20 frame $450 An homage to neoplasticism ("De Stijl") for its centennial. Like many of my pieces, they begin and end in different places. The original idea was off the working title "Compartments" or "compartmentalization" as a borrowed metaphor from psychology. The original painting was cut into sections, then reassembled. The white stripes were a way to resolve the metaphor of "compartments", but later I realized that the band The White Stripes were deeply into De Stijl, and titled an album after it. This geometric style is something that I believe is "me", a style that I recall doing in childhood and has remained with me since.