ELIZABETH BARNES “WITH EVERY BREATH...” 2022 20 x 20” Media: acrylic on canvas https://www.elizabethbarnes.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/endless_murmuring ARTIST BIO My fine arts education began with an attitude. The attitude came from my teachers, a small group of New York artists who had come of age in the 50s and 60s. The attitude was rooted in jazz. Painting was Hot. Painting was Cool. Push and pull and get your groove on. It was a neo- utopia, the resurrection of painting in an anything goes orgy of materials. Those were the days. This spirit still visits me in the studio. My work has remained rooted in late modernist abstraction, and especially in the joy of experimentation with materials. Tape, mix, pour, splatter, scrape, stop, repeat. Colour is still hot. Colour is still cool. Shapes can dance. Shapes can speak. The politics of representation become sublimated in the language of paint, design, and craft.
PROJECT STATEMENT This painting is one of a series of paintings I produced in early 2022 to explore the possibilities of layering paint splattered surfaces and transparencies. The image is informed by my interest in contemporary and organic architecture. The title suggests the beginning of a mantra for meditation. Imagine yourself floating through a red-orange space in a convoluted geodesic glass structure...
~ Elizabeth Barnes
Elizabeth Barnes is an artist and educator and has lived and worked in Vancouver, BC since 2004. She received her BFA in 1991 from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and her MFA in 1993 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Her work has been exhibited in public, private, and commercial galleries throughout the United States and Canada.
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