Artist info: Barnes received his B.F.A. from the University of Chicago and the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in 1956. He also studied at Columbia University, Hunter College
and the University of London in England. Barnes has won several grants and awards,
including two Fullbright Grants, a William and Norma Copley Foundation Prize for Painting,
a Guri Siever Award from the Art Institute of Chicago, a Childe Hassam purchase prize
from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Barnes is
in several major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of
American Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago),
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago), Madison Art Center,
and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Artist info: I am interested in the processes and forces that break us down over time both physically
and spiritually. This weathering is inevitable. The body is subject to sickness,
injury and aging. The spirit is subject to varying types, durations and degrees of
stressors. For me, the result of this process is of the greatest significance. What
is its purpose? What does it produce? Ultimately, I hope to frame these questions
within the context of impermanence and fragility. These processes and forces can leave
a beautiful patina, but they also point toward mortality and a consideration of what
follows. My work references these ideas through the material and process. I take various
types of paper and distress them by hand until they are flexible and faceted like
skin. The paper is transformed into an analog for the body, which I then cut, peel,
tear, layer and repair. The end product visually reveals a history of the process
and energy that acted upon it. This informs our understanding of the dissonance between
its delicate beauty and scarred fragility.
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