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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.

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 venue in Syracuse

By Barry Anderson on September 9, 2009 12:43 AM | No Comments

One the more recent venues to become involved in the Intermissions project, Point of Contact Gallery, is now showing my Kings, Thieves video on a large LCD monitor in their window 24/7 for the duration of the project.

gallery talk at Everson Museum

By Barry Anderson on August 21, 2009 11:34 AM | No Comments

Light Work director Hannah Frieser and I gave a short gallery talk at the Everson Museum of Art yesterday evening in conjunction with Intermissions and my Pigeon exhibition at the museum.

online video profile

By Barry Anderson on August 7, 2009 4:44 PM | No Comments

created by Ellen Blalock for the Post-Standard

Pigeon opens at Everson Museum of Art

By Barry Anderson on July 25, 2009 11:04 AM | No Comments

Pigeon opened yesterday at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. It runs through August 22. I'll be giving a gallery talk there at the musueum on August 20.

getting the word out for AtA

By Barry Anderson on July 25, 2009 10:46 AM | No Comments

My Art Through Architecture commission for Drug Free Sport has been getting some internet attention this past week.

Charlotte Street Foundation blog
Brennan + Company Architects blog
Design News blog
Art Daily blog

DFS commission installed

By Barry Anderson on July 9, 2009 2:15 PM | No Comments

The Drug Free Sport commission piece is finally installed. There are a couple more color tweeks to be done on it but it's currently on view nonetheless.

There will be an open house and possible artist discussion about it held for local architects, critics, and DFS employees sometime within the next couple of months.

article in Architecture Magazine

By Barry Anderson on June 19, 2009 9:47 AM | No Comments

My commission for Drug Free Sport is mentioned in an article on el dorado in the new issue of Architect Magazine.

video to be shown at Everson Museum of Art

By Barry Anderson on June 11, 2009 8:40 PM | No Comments

Pigeon, a single-channel video of mine, has been picked by curator Debora Ryan to be shown at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse this summer. The solo exhibition, running July 25 to August 30, will be the kick-off to my larger series of exhibitions at Syracuse University and around the city of Syracuse. This project, titled Intermissions, will begin August 14 in the main gallery at Light Work and will continue with other exhibitions and events through October.

final installation sketch for DFS commission

By Barry Anderson on May 28, 2009 5:53 AM | No Comments

This is the final Photoshop mockup for the three-channel video commissioned by the National Center for Drug Free Sport. The video animation is still in the works but will hopefully be done within the next couple of weeks.

videos to be shown in UK

By Barry Anderson on May 28, 2009 5:30 AM | No Comments

Three of my older single-channel works, Lovers (2001), Trash Can (2003), and Epic Escapism (2) (2005), as well as a newer one, Pigeons (2009), will be shown in England as part of a group exhibition titled Everyday at the Temporary Art Space in Halifax. The exhibition opens June 5.

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.

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.

opening at Salina Art Center

By Barry Anderson on March 6, 2009 2:04 PM | No Comments

My new video, Always Becoming Something (3), opened this week at the Salina Art Center. It was commissioned by the SAC and is comprised of video portraits of 27 residents of Salina, KS. The exhibition runs until May 7, 2009.

The video is the third in an on-going series of videos depicting people in various art communities. The first two were created with art students at Syracuse University while I was in residency at Light Work.

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.

review in THE Magazine

By Barry Anderson on February 18, 2009 4:58 PM | No Comments

There is a very nice review of the Vacant Spaces exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery in the new issue of THE Magazine. The writer Patricia Mora has some very kind things to say about my video Lawn Ornaments.

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.

in progress : Always Becoming Something (3)

By Barry Anderson on January 19, 2009 1:25 PM | 1 Comment

Now that the holidays are over and the Dallas show is behind me, I'm going full force on the commission for the Salina Art Center. titled Always Becoming Something (3). I'm almost done keying out all of the footage and am now testing out the overall evinromental look of the piece (like in the test shot here).

opening in Dallas

By Barry Anderson on January 14, 2009 1:14 PM | No Comments

My newest video animation, Lawn Ornaments, opened in the group show Vacant Spaces at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas last weekend. An excerpt from the piece can now been seen in my portfolio.

in progress : Lawn Ornaments

By Barry Anderson on December 17, 2008 11:59 AM | No Comments

My newest video animation, Lawn Ornaments, is nearing completion. It will debut in a group exhibition, Vacant Spaces, at Marty Walker Gallery opening January 10.

The final video (which is 2 min 30 sec) is going to take five computers the better part of a week to render.

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.

video sketch (pigeons in Salina)

By Barry Anderson on November 26, 2008 7:04 PM | No Comments

While waiting on volunteers in Salina on my last trip (see earlier entry), I took about 15 minutes of footage of the hundreds of pigeons seen from the loft windows. As I've been going through all of the project footage (over 120 GB), I decided to do some quick tests of the pigeons as a way of taking a break. I might come back to this later.

opening reception at the Nerman Museum

By Barry Anderson on November 24, 2008 2:48 PM | No Comments

The opening reception at the Nerman Museum last Friday night was great. Both shows opening that night (mine and the CSF 2008 awards) were very well attended.The reactions to Op Eyes were very enthusiastic. It's a shame that the piece couldn't be shown on the Reigner Center projection system as well as in the Oppenheimer New Media Gallery (where it opened), but hopefully everything will be up and running again soon.

The video was shot by Daniel Smith, one of my motion design students.

radio interview on KCUR

By Barry Anderson on November 21, 2008 7:09 PM | No Comments

I did a radio interview with Laura Spencer of KCUR, KC's local NPR affiliate. It aired yesterday morning but has just now been posted on their website.

Salina trip 2

By Barry Anderson on November 17, 2008 10:06 AM | No Comments

I just finished another weekend of videotaping residents of Salina, KS, for my project for the Salina Art Center. I think we've now got enough footage to begin working on the final piece.

The opening has been moved back to mid-March 2009 which is a great relief.

shooting animation stills

By Barry Anderson on November 3, 2008 7:13 PM | No Comments

I spent all morning in my backyard photographing some house plants for a new video animation. Sometimes a clear blue sky is the best chroma key.

new video animation: Pulp Kali

By Barry Anderson on October 31, 2008 4:33 PM | No Comments

A short clip from my newest video animation, Pulp Kali, is now online in my portfolio.

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