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Summer, 2008
$1,200. |
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The Gun and The Dog, 2007
$1,200. |
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Wave $12,500. |
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Wave, Panel A $3,000. |
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Wave, Panel B $3,000. |
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Wave, Panel C $3,000. |
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Wave, Panel D $3,000. |
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Wave, Panel E $3,000. |
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Double Feature $3,000. |
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V-Formation $1,200. |
Burt Barr
Burt Barr is a New York-based artist noted for his boundary crossing work between time-based media and still photography.
Barr endows his silent black and white videos with the luminous clarity of silver gelatin prints, clarifying their resolution in a rigorous editing process that strips them of the visual linear structure of video. They are photographs that move in time, varying from the almost imperceptible melting of an ice cube to the relentless pounding of the surf. His titles often are humorous takes on the nature of his investigations into the most common of video shooting devices: Slo Mo features a turtle moving in the slowest of slow motions, The Long Dissolve shows an ice cube slowly dissolving, while Dolly Shot Twice is a sweeping back and forth pan (a dolly shot) of a '60s Cadillac with a woman, shot twice, slumped in the front seat.
Burt Barr’s new photogravure The Gun and The Dog is a visually arresting comment on culture, dead serious but cartoonish and satirical as well. The pistol and the maw of the dog are a double-barreled threat pointing directly at the viewer. The black and white images, resembling magazine or billboard advertising, evoke the hair-trigger violence of American culture and its slick, packaged veneer in the mass media. The human figure, in pin stripes, is wreathed in smoke that could come from the just-fired gun or perhaps from a cigarette, while the smiling dog seems ready to lunge with its very white, very clean fangs.
For Graphicstudio Barr created the two-color photolithograph with two separate images on one sheet of paper, derived from his video August. A top image shows waves crashing endlessly on a beach, and a lower image pictures a man and a woman in the rough surf. Using computer technology Barr videocaptured two images which were then output to film and onto lithography plates. They are handprinted on Arches cover white paper in an edition of 45.
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Burt Barr
Media Gallery
Walkthrough of the Exhibition
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