WHY BARBARA?
First of all, there is something to see.
Specifically, it is the only place to look at The Meander paintings.
In 2011, at the British Museum, the artist had the idea from which came The Meander paintings. Gates saw the special exhibition of The Book of the Dead texts and was struck by what the painters, who illustrated the texts, had contributed to the development of the reasons that artists have for making pictures. To give a person, once dead, the knowledge to gain eternal life is, when you consider, historically, the flood of commercial reasons for making pictures, a very high water mark, indeed. After all, many of the texts were prepared in advance, with the names of the dead added later.
For those wanting a more detailed description of The Meander, please click here.
(1) The Meander paintings are a group of 18 new paintings that will be shown, on a rotating basis, six at a time. With them, two, of the 32 paintings, from The Seasons will, also, be shown.
(2) You may think that Barbara is experiential and interactive art.
(2.1) You come into contact, with her, on the sidewalk, absent any mediation, completely exposed.
(2.2) Inside her, you are sheltered, hidden, safe; in other words, the opposite.
(2.3) The transition, from outside to in, is almost instantaneous, thus magnifying the effect of the juxtaposition, which produces the sensation of an experience.
(3) Regardless, that is not Barbara’s raison d’être.
(4) Barbara presents the pictures. In essence, she is their frame.
