William Barnes Paintings and Monotypes |
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Bill Barnes |
William D. Barnes, Professor in the art
department at The College of William and Mary, will be opening the
season at the Williams Gallery in the Williams School of Commerce,
Economics, and Politics, at Washington and Lee University on
September 14, 2001. Professor Barnes will be giving a talk
"Painterly Painters" on Friday, September 14, 2001, at 5:30 p.m.
in Room 221 of the Williams School. A reception will follow.
William Barnes will exhibit paintings and monotypes at Washington and Lee University, Williams School of Commerce Gallery September 14 through November 2, 2001. Barnes has exhibited in over 150 exhibitions throughout the United States, including solo shows at the Bowery Gallery in New York City. In the exhibition at Washington and Lee, he will show paintings of still-life that range from complex compositions of various objects to singular forms. Often these table tops incorporate plaster casts as a human presence, with fruits, flowers, and an assortment of vessels seen under changing conditions of light, time, and shifting points of observation. Painted from direct observation, these elements, emblems of life and mortality, are often a basis for work in the vanitas tradition. He will show black and white monotypes as well. For Barnes, this interaction with his subject offers opportunities to forge connections between himself, the thing seen, and the response in paint. Some of the works are painted straightaway while others are sustained over an extended period. His choice of colors, the marks, and quality of imprint represent the character and dynamic of the subject as he feels it. The monotypes, executed in diverse tones and notations, often taken from the same motifs as his paintings, are more open in light and shape and demonstrate Barnes at home with the medium . William Barnes was born in Chicago, raised in Iowa, received an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, and is Professor of Art and Art History at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, where he has taught since 1975. |
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