Barry Anderson » Art Through Architecture http://www.barryanderson.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:45:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 opening reception at Swarm Gallery http://www.barryanderson.com/2010/02/opening-reception-at-swarm-gallery/ http://www.barryanderson.com/2010/02/opening-reception-at-swarm-gallery/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:39:59 +0000 Barry Anderson http://www.barryanderson.com/?p=679 The opening reception for my exhibition at Swarm Gallery in Oakland happened last Saturday evening with a very nice sized crowd attending. My audio and video installation Ectoplasmic Response was shown along with drawings by Bay Area artist Casey Jex Smith and an installation of ghostly architectural elements made of vellum by Brooklyn-based artist Sonya Blesofsky. There was also a short performance by 4AD artist tUnE-YarDs.

For anyone visiting the Bay Area, you should check out the up-and-coming art scene in Oakland. There are some very interesting things happening there, with Swarm Gallery being in the center of it.

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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.

]]> http://www.barryanderson.com/2009/09/there-and-back-again-reception/feed/ 0 news article in KC Star http://www.barryanderson.com/2009/08/news-article-in-kc-star/ http://www.barryanderson.com/2009/08/news-article-in-kc-star/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:07:52 +0000 Barry Anderson http://www.barryanderson.com/wordpress/2009/08/news-article-in-kc-star/ BarryA_DFS_commission_FINAL_install.jpgMy 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.

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

]]> http://www.barryanderson.com/2009/04/in-progress-commission-for-drug-free-sport/feed/ 0 commission for Drug Free Sport lobby http://www.barryanderson.com/2009/02/commission-for-drug-free-sport-lobby/ http://www.barryanderson.com/2009/02/commission-for-drug-free-sport-lobby/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:33:52 +0000 Barry Anderson http://www.barryanderson.com/wordpress/2009/02/commission-for-drug-free-sport-lobby/ AtA-NCDFS-sketch-1circle.jpgI 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.

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