Barry Beach

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A remedy of layers: Barry Beach explores accumulation and coating as forms of protection during uncertain times.

Barry Beach Artist Statement:

This series came about during the sheltering in place of Covid19. While I had worked on coating materials before, this series took it to a whole new level. I just wanted to keep on making thick, impermeable coatings around objects of everyday life, like wrapping a blanket or bubble around them. Perhaps it was my psychological need to protect and encapsulate during this crazy time. Then, during the wildfire season currently continuing in Northern California (the season previously known as fall), my series began collecting the ash falling out of the sky as the adhesives were drying outside in the sun. So - most of these works contain black specks in their multiple coatings, becoming a fossilized record of contemporary climate. The last image shows a monoprint I made from ask and condensation from my car during the worst ask and polluted air days in late September.

Checklist:

1. Accumulated Landscape series #9, adhesive over carved reclaimed wood mounted on wood panel, 24” x 12” x 4” 2020, $2000

2. Coating and Covering series [ash], ash and condensation on paper, 28” x 18”, 2020, $800

3. Accumulation and Excavation Series, glue over tracing paper and reclaimed wood mounted on plywood, 12” x 8” x 3”, 2020, $1200 each

4. Coating and Covering series, bubble wrap, rope, bubble packaging, & adhesive mounted on wood, each approximately 12” tall x 8.5” wide, 2020, each $750