Barry Anderson: Kansas City Archives

benefit print for KVC

By Barry Anderson on November 23, 2009 3:25 PM | No Comments

I recently finished a new print to benefit KVC Behavioral HeathCare. The print was sold in KVC's annual Holiday Tree Gala at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art last Saturday night. I originally intended this to be a one-off print, but I may now make a small edition of it.

new audio work debuts

By Barry Anderson on November 15, 2009 12:15 PM | No Comments

My newest piece, an audio wall scuplture titled Somnambulance (1), debuted this past Friday at the Review Studios annual residents' exhibition in the studio gallery. It changed quite a bit from the first version that was being installed (posted here earlier in the week). The piece consists of 6 speakers mounted on the walls in a corner of the gallery with the speaker wires creating a sort of drawing as they are pulled over the top edge of the walls. A subwoofer is hidden behind the walls. The audio is a Dolby 5.1 track which allows the sounds to move throughout the speaker configuration. The audio is composed of 30 layers of sound appropriated from obscure mid-century soundtracks and spoken word.

review for Promethea

By Barry Anderson on November 11, 2009 7:58 PM | No Comments

The performance of Promethea last week at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival was just reviewed by Lee Hartman for kcmetropolis.org.

installation of new work

By Barry Anderson on November 10, 2009 12:14 PM | No Comments

I began installing my new speaker piece, Somnambulance (1), at Review Studios yesterday. The piece will be part of the annual studio residents group exhibition, which opens this coming Friday 6-9pm.

Promethea performance

By Barry Anderson on November 7, 2009 12:10 PM | No Comments

Promethea, my collaboration with composer Christopher Biggs, was performed last Thursday night at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, KS. Elizabeth Bunt was in from Arizona to perform the saxophone part. Video clips of the performance, as well as the actual video, can be viewed on Vimeo.

change to print edition

By Barry Anderson on November 1, 2009 2:40 PM | No Comments

We decided to change the image for the print edition that will be accompanying the upcoming Picnic on Art Island event. The edition will now feature an image from my 2009 video animation Lawn Ornaments. We decided to make the change because the original image had been exhibited as a print once before at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas and we thought having a previously unseen print would be better.

limited edition print

By Barry Anderson on October 28, 2009 3:35 PM | No Comments

The print has been chosen for the limited edition to accompany next month's Picnic on Art Island event at my studio. The print image is from my 2007 video animation Treebeasties (1) and will be available in an edition of 50 through Cara and Cabezas Contemporary. Tickets and prints can be purchased online. The print is available with a ticket to the event for $175 (event only is $35).

Glow benefit at the Nerman Museum

By Barry Anderson on October 27, 2009 6:03 PM | No Comments

Beyond Bounds: GLOW, this year's benefit exhibition and auction for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary of Art, was held at the museum last Saturday night. I wasn't able to attend but heard it was a great exhibition and event. I donated a print based on a video still from my recent Ectoplasmic Response video installation. I haven't heard yet whether or not it sold in the auction.

Art Picnic coming soon

By Barry Anderson on October 21, 2009 9:36 PM | No Comments

Cara Megan Lewis, of Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, came by the studio yesterday to taken some promo photos for next month's Picnic on Art Island. I'll be the next featured artist for this monthly series of dinner discussions held at artists studios around KC. In addition to a meal held for about 20 patrons, a special print edition is made for each event. We're still working out the details of the image to be chosen, but it will most likely be a unique image based upon one of my recent video animations. The dinner details will be announced soon as well.

Visual Devotion 2

By Barry Anderson on October 14, 2009 3:53 PM | No Comments

Visual Devotion, my collaborative performance project with KC-based band Thee Devotion (featuring local artists Davin Watne and Michael Schonhoff), is happening again. We're set for a one-night gig outdoors (weather-permitting) at The Mercy Seat in KC on November 6.

Promethea collaboration

By Barry Anderson on October 9, 2009 11:45 AM | No Comments

I recently completed a new video in collaboration with KC-based composer Christopher Biggs. The 7 min+ video was created as a component of a performance with recorded music and live saxophone. The piece debuted last week at the Channel Noise Concert at Georgia Southern University with Alex Sellers performing on saxophone. It will be performed by Alex once more at GSU on October 18, then by Elizabeth Blunt at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, KS on November 5.

The video with the recorded music, but minus the saxophone, can be viewed on Vimeo.

There and Back Again reception

By Barry Anderson on September 24, 2009 2:17 PM | No Comments

We had the reception for the Art Through Architecture commission, There and Back Again, yesterday evening at the offices of the National Center for Drug Free Sport in Kansas City.

A good crowd of architects, artists, critics, and patrons showed up to view the piece and to hear a brief talk about the project by myself, Kate Hackman (Charlotte Street Fund), Josh Shelton (el dorado architects), and Frank Uryasz (Drug Free Sport).

A great spread of local cheese was provided by Tony Glamcevski and his Green Dirt Farm.

new Suspension print

By Barry Anderson on September 5, 2009 9:23 PM | No Comments

I've been working on a new series of photographs, the first of which (Suspension 09.1) was just put on display in the back room salon at Byron Cohen Gallery in KC. The print measures 35" wide x 12" high. There are four more in the series which will hopefully be completed in the next month or so.

Urban Suburban opening

By Barry Anderson on August 30, 2009 9:45 PM | No Comments

The Urban Suburban opening reception/auction preview was this afternoon at Epsten Gallery. There was a nice crowd and nice group of artists in the auction exhibition. The catalogs are coming out next week and the auction is going to be held on October 17.

My piece, Always Becoming Something (4.8), is the small black horizontal image on the right side of the photo.

new print for benefit auction

By Barry Anderson on August 24, 2009 3:25 PM | No Comments

One of the prints from my new photo series, Always Becoming Something (4), will be in the upcoming Urban Suburban benefit auction for the Kansas City Jewish Museum. The print measures 30"x9" and features my former intern Claire Condon backed by an image from the Hubble Telescope.

The opening reception for the exhibition is this Sunday afternoon, with the actual auction happening on October 17.

Visual Devotion

By Barry Anderson on August 12, 2009 7:05 PM | No Comments

I finally got some photos from Visual Devotion, held last month at Review Studios. The event was two evenings worth of music by KC-based funk bank Thee Devotion with cut up grindhouse videos by me. I was in Syracuse when it happened so I'm sorry I missed it. We're discussing doing another similar event sometime this fall so stay tuned.

Photos courtesy of studestevo

news article in KC Star

By Barry Anderson on August 2, 2009 4:07 PM | No Comments

My commission for Drug Free Sport was featured in a short article in the Kansas City Star which ran on Saturday, August 1. The article, titled All Eyes on Downtown Art, was written by Alice Thorson, the paper's head art critic.

in progress : DFS commission sketch

By Barry Anderson on April 16, 2009 12:43 PM | No Comments

I've got another mockup of the monitor layout for the new commissioned piece for Drug Free Sport. We've decided to pursue the idea of a vertical layout which means I have to retinker the animation composition to account for vertical rather than horizontal movement.

review on Review Magazine blog

By Barry Anderson on April 14, 2009 9:59 PM | No Comments

Happy Tree Friends was recently reviewed by Abby Rufkahr on Review Magazine's new online blog.

The exhibition closes April 18.

in progress : commission for Drug Free Sport

By Barry Anderson on April 10, 2009 5:10 PM | No Comments

I'm finally getting some animation tests done for the commission for Drug Free Sport. We're going to be creating a three-channel monitor piece for their new main reception area. The video sketch above is a composite of all three 16:9 images.

review in The Pitch

By Barry Anderson on April 4, 2009 3:37 PM | No Comments

I gave a quick gallery talk last night (along with nine other artists) in conjunction with the group show, Happy Tree Friends, at la Esquina in KC. It was very well attended considering that it was a First Friday gallery night and pretty much every gallery and art center in town had openings.

I found out that the exhibit had been reviewed a few weeks ago in The Pitch (KC's weekly alt paper) and I had missed the issue on the stands. The critic, Dana Self, wrote a very intelligent piece and had a couple of nice things to say about my video Epic Escapism (2).

Happy Tree Friends at la Esquina

By Barry Anderson on March 7, 2009 2:13 PM | No Comments

Epic Escapism (2), part of an older video installation of mine, is included in Happy Tree Friends (or Standing: Tree as Agent, Index, Object of Desire), a group exhibition curated by Kate Hackman. The exhibition opened to a packed crowd last night at the Urban Culture Project's la Esquina space in KC's Westside neighborhood. The exhibition runs until April 18, 2009.

The original installation can be viewed in my portfolio.

commission for Drug Free Sport lobby

By Barry Anderson on February 27, 2009 12:33 PM | No Comments

I found out yesterday that I was awarded the commission to create art for the lobby of the National Center for Drug Free Sport. I'll be working with Josh Shelton of el dorado architects to create a new video piece. I proposed a multi-channel video "frieze" above the reception desk, using circular masks on the video monitors, but I have a feeling the design will change quite a bit before it's over. It's going to be a fairly quick project and will probably be completed in 4-8 weeks.

This is a direction I've wanted to take my work for some time, so I'm very excited to get started.

previewing commission site: NCDFS

By Barry Anderson on February 19, 2009 12:53 PM | No Comments

A couple of days ago I toured the site for the new Art Through Architecture commission for which I've been shortlisted. It's an addition on the National Center for Drug Free Sport building which el dorado is rennovating. Based on what I saw in the finsihed section of the building, this new addition is going to be absolutely beautiful.

Here's hoping they decide on adding some video to the space.

Art Through Architecture

By Barry Anderson on February 11, 2009 4:03 PM | No Comments

Art Through Architecture, a new initiative begun by the KC chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Charlotte Street Foundation, finally has their website up and running. I have been one of the artists chosen to be included in their initial database.

The mission of AtA is to support artists and the arts community in the Kansas City area and to enrich architectural practices and architect-client relationships by providing architects and clients with incentives and tools to collect, commission, place, and integrate artwork by Kansas City artists into their processes and projects.

mention on ArtKC365 blog

By Barry Anderson on February 3, 2009 1:27 AM | No Comments

Op Eyes was mentioned on Steve Brisendine's new ArtKC365 blog last Thursday. He makes some interesting analogies to ancient Egyptian art.

Op Eyes projected

By Barry Anderson on January 24, 2009 2:18 PM | No Comments

Finally.

Op Eyes has been placed in the location for which it was created, the projection system on the Regnier Center adjacent to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. It was tested last night for the opening reception for the museum's new acquisitions exhibit.

This isn't going to be a permanent public installation, but since the piece is in the museum's permanent collection, hopefully they'll put it up on the screen regularly.

new studio

By Barry Anderson on January 20, 2009 12:56 AM | No Comments

I'm getting ready to move into my new studio. All I have to do is seal the floors and it's ready to go. I'm looking into eventually building a large chromakey set in it.

Op Eyes installation view

By Barry Anderson on December 10, 2008 10:35 AM | No Comments

I finally got some installation images for Op Eyes showing in the Oppenheimer New Media Gallery at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. The projection is approx. 18 ft. x 10 ft. and is being shown from Blu-ray disc.

Review Studios

By Barry Anderson on December 5, 2008 12:10 PM | No Comments

It was just announced that I have been selected as one of the newest artists at Review Studios. In January I'll move into a 3000+ sq. ft. space in the Review Studios building in downtown KC. I'll have it for three years with an option to stay for three more.

This is a program which matches KC artists to local patrons and gives them a studio free of charge in exchange for supplying artwork to both the patron and the Review corporate collection.

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