Please contact Brian Barrer for more information: brianbarrer@gmail.com
Construction Crow 2018 (Limited Edition) Mixed Media 10" x 10" $385.00 plus tax |
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Hitching a Ride Series : Buffalo #14
2021 (Limited Edition) Mixed Media 24" x 24" $1200. plus tax |
Brian Barrer
As an artist, I don’t think ‘outside the box’, but rather I turn the box inside out, upside down, and view everything in the immediate environment as the canvas to create my images. Like an artist in any medium, I dread only the ‘block’ that may dam the flow of ideas. However, the norm is for internal forces, stories, and images to bubble continuously to the conscious surface of my mind; the question very quickly becomes 'Do I create, or do I explode?'
In my creative process, depending on the theme or the inspiration of the moment, I make a conscious decision to view the subject anew through compartmentalization. When I encounter an unexpected image, I attempt to expand on it to see what I can create. I then try to match an existing technique to the working theme or create a new technique that suits the inspiration. I also draw inspiration from dreams and find myself distracted from everyday life by images or themes that demand my immediate attention. At that point, I quickly sketch out the images to preserve the thought.
Brian Barrer presents a visual feast of contradictions and photographic epigrams through the surreal juxtaposition of modernized nature and nature untouched. He invites you to explore his images where he presents reality as perception and perception as reality.
EDUCATION
2007 Visual Arts Specialty in Education, Nipissing University, North Bay ON
2004 Teaching Certificate, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
1995 Photography Diploma, Ryerson, Toronto ON
1983 Design Arts Diploma, Georgian College, Barrie ON
As an artist, I don’t think ‘outside the box’, but rather I turn the box inside out, upside down, and view everything in the immediate environment as the canvas to create my images. Like an artist in any medium, I dread only the ‘block’ that may dam the flow of ideas. However, the norm is for internal forces, stories, and images to bubble continuously to the conscious surface of my mind; the question very quickly becomes 'Do I create, or do I explode?'
In my creative process, depending on the theme or the inspiration of the moment, I make a conscious decision to view the subject anew through compartmentalization. When I encounter an unexpected image, I attempt to expand on it to see what I can create. I then try to match an existing technique to the working theme or create a new technique that suits the inspiration. I also draw inspiration from dreams and find myself distracted from everyday life by images or themes that demand my immediate attention. At that point, I quickly sketch out the images to preserve the thought.
Brian Barrer presents a visual feast of contradictions and photographic epigrams through the surreal juxtaposition of modernized nature and nature untouched. He invites you to explore his images where he presents reality as perception and perception as reality.
EDUCATION
2007 Visual Arts Specialty in Education, Nipissing University, North Bay ON
2004 Teaching Certificate, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
1995 Photography Diploma, Ryerson, Toronto ON
1983 Design Arts Diploma, Georgian College, Barrie ON
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