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Lights Out Gallery
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2021
Our mission is to connect artists and their circles to a broader community. We show emerging and established artists alongside one another to encourage conversation, collaboration, and camaraderie.
"Lights Out Gallery is doing what no one else in Maine does, supporting artists who work in every conceivable way. There are no prerequisites, no requirements of age, gender or otherwise, and no concern that the work is “relevant” and in alignment with current art making social, political or conceptual trends. There is an intense desire to discover good work, and especially that which has received little recognition and lies outside the “grid”, a search for art which in some universal way possesses energy, life and meaning..." - Warren Seelig
"Lights Out Gallery is doing what no one else in Maine does, supporting artists who work in every conceivable way. There are no prerequisites, no requirements of age, gender or otherwise, and no concern that the work is “relevant” and in alignment with current art making social, political or conceptual trends. There is an intense desire to discover good work, and especially that which has received little recognition and lies outside the “grid”, a search for art which in some universal way possesses energy, life and meaning..." - Warren Seelig
The Most Famous Unknown Artist in America - Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes has been called the “most famous unknown painter in America.”
Robert Barnes’s (b. 1934) paintings and drawings have been included in gallery and museum exhibitions across the country with fair regularity for the last 40 years, and attracted the admiration of generations of artists and connoisseurs. Unfortunately, his work has remained relatively unknown in the popular art world. This may be because or in spite of Barnes’s command of a rich mixture of literary and psychological references and his unique style that walks the line between figurative and abstract, narrative and surreal.
Barnes was born in Washington. D.C. but moved to Winnetka, Illinois as a child. From 1952 to 1956 he attended both the School of the Art Institute and the University of Chicago, and would receive BFAs from both schools. During this time, he was a part of an exceptionally fertile community of students that included Claes Oldenburg, Jack Beal, Irving Petlin, Leon Golub, Ellen Lanyon, Robert Indiana, and H.C. Westermann.
In 1957 Barnes left Chicago to attend Columbia University in New York. While there he became active both in the world of Dada surrealist art and in the James Joyce Society at Gotham Bookmark - the beginning of two interests that would become major sources of inspiration for the rest of Barnes’s career. In 1958 the Whitney Museum of American Art acquired one of Barnes’s large early paintings, entitled “Judith and Holofernes.”
In 1961 Barnes was awarded both the William and Norma Copley Foundation Prize for Painting and a Fulbright Grant to study English portraiture, and so left to study at the Slade School of Art in London, where he would stay until 1963. Again, Barnes found himself in the company of an extraordinary community of artists, including Francis Bacon. Through Bacon’s involvement with the London Theatre, Barnes developed an interest in the theatrical arts, which would also pervade his paintings for decades to come.
In 1963 Barnes returned to America as a visiting artist at the Kansas Art Institute, Kansas City, where he would stay for a year before moving to Bloomington, Indiana to teach at Indiana University. While living in Indiana, Barnes continued to exhibit with Alan Frumkin at his galleries in Chicago and New York, and in 1967 his work was shown at the Gallerie du Dragon, Paris. During a two-year sabbatical that began in 1972, Barnes traveled to Umbria, Italy and has continued to visit Italy often ever since.
In 1985 a retrospective of the previous three decades of Barnes’s artwork traveled around the country, with stops at the Herron Gallery of Art in Indianapolis; the Madison Art Center, in Madison, Wisconsin; and the Hyde Park Art Center and the Renaissance Society in Chicago.
Barnes retired from teaching at Indiana University in 1999 after 35 years there.
- Artist bio via Corbett vs. Dempsey
Robert Barnes’s (b. 1934) paintings and drawings have been included in gallery and museum exhibitions across the country with fair regularity for the last 40 years, and attracted the admiration of generations of artists and connoisseurs. Unfortunately, his work has remained relatively unknown in the popular art world. This may be because or in spite of Barnes’s command of a rich mixture of literary and psychological references and his unique style that walks the line between figurative and abstract, narrative and surreal.
Barnes was born in Washington. D.C. but moved to Winnetka, Illinois as a child. From 1952 to 1956 he attended both the School of the Art Institute and the University of Chicago, and would receive BFAs from both schools. During this time, he was a part of an exceptionally fertile community of students that included Claes Oldenburg, Jack Beal, Irving Petlin, Leon Golub, Ellen Lanyon, Robert Indiana, and H.C. Westermann.
In 1957 Barnes left Chicago to attend Columbia University in New York. While there he became active both in the world of Dada surrealist art and in the James Joyce Society at Gotham Bookmark - the beginning of two interests that would become major sources of inspiration for the rest of Barnes’s career. In 1958 the Whitney Museum of American Art acquired one of Barnes’s large early paintings, entitled “Judith and Holofernes.”
In 1961 Barnes was awarded both the William and Norma Copley Foundation Prize for Painting and a Fulbright Grant to study English portraiture, and so left to study at the Slade School of Art in London, where he would stay until 1963. Again, Barnes found himself in the company of an extraordinary community of artists, including Francis Bacon. Through Bacon’s involvement with the London Theatre, Barnes developed an interest in the theatrical arts, which would also pervade his paintings for decades to come.
In 1963 Barnes returned to America as a visiting artist at the Kansas Art Institute, Kansas City, where he would stay for a year before moving to Bloomington, Indiana to teach at Indiana University. While living in Indiana, Barnes continued to exhibit with Alan Frumkin at his galleries in Chicago and New York, and in 1967 his work was shown at the Gallerie du Dragon, Paris. During a two-year sabbatical that began in 1972, Barnes traveled to Umbria, Italy and has continued to visit Italy often ever since.
In 1985 a retrospective of the previous three decades of Barnes’s artwork traveled around the country, with stops at the Herron Gallery of Art in Indianapolis; the Madison Art Center, in Madison, Wisconsin; and the Hyde Park Art Center and the Renaissance Society in Chicago.
Barnes retired from teaching at Indiana University in 1999 after 35 years there.
- Artist bio via Corbett vs. Dempsey
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a scintillating monologue by a painter of integrity , BRAVA !
I also want to say I love your style. Little Red Riding Hood is my absolute favorite ❤️
After a long time painting portraits I gradually lost interest. I’m forever grateful that the desire to paint figurative illustrations replaced my desire to paint portraits. I also moved from oil paint on canvas to pencil, ink and watercolors all tucked away in large format Strathmore watercolor paper books.
Bob Barnes was my undergrad painting professor- such a wonderful conversationalist and inspiring artist. I continue to grow in my creative process from the seeds he planted.
I love your work! Why worry if it's good. It just is!
Very interesting character and style
Beautiful paintings! They are so interesting. I could get lost in them. 😊
Obsession is key. If youre not obsessed with what you do, dont bother.
Very interesting perspective on creating the inside space and the outside will look after itself. Food for thought. TY
That’s my mom!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I would love to sit with this man for a whole day
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I like the art and imagination. Nancy is good.
A fabulous interview….an engaging person, with wise words
I just want to know, whose job is it to dust? Definitely a fun place❤
A beautiful interview - beautifully filmed too. I so appreciate his work and his collection of fantastic art, artifacts, sculptures throughout his home. What an interesting man.
Great work ,great talk,telling like it ‘tis.
I am 70 still painting after 36 years hahahaha. Great work Tom!
Love ya dude
I turn 80 and that is bad news hahahaha
Wow, wonderful. Inspirational. I feel better about what my core approach has been since beginning in the visual arts, and focusing on it more over the past year. Keep on keepin' on Mr. Barnes.
That feeling of lightness and joy when in the presence of a great poet.
Thats my dad!!!❤️❤️❤️
So glad to see him- he hasn’t changed a bit. He was my BFA painting prof from 88-93. Exceptional in his discussions of art and practice
Why so many artists wear that style of eyeglasses?
Wow, thank you for this interview, video. I am so grateful for this introduction. 🎨♾🎨💫♡
Lois Dodd is brilliant!
They are kind of unintentionally gangster. 😂
Is he gay?
Are you ever going to take some art lessons? It might be time.
I love the idea of”reanimating” pieces into art
Fine line between art, junk and hoarding
🤠👍👌🌞🎉
Truth is important. Im happy shes happy doing her art. If the canvasses R 80 to over 100 bucks blank. Her work should be sold for double that. Any price over 300 bucks would be absurd.......
Wonderful artist! Thank you Lois for your great observations and wisdom,
Love you two! It's so good also to hear you both talk about the excitement of not knowing what's gonna happen creatively. Music to my ears, as that's what I love too, and have only relatively recently realised that there are others like me. Uncertainty as a superpower!
As a found object artist, its great to see others who think like me. Also, hi to the bloke who awkwardly snuck out 😂
Filth is not Art .
Yes, But art can be filthy …. Open your mind a tad 😊
You know. You get to a certain age as an artist, like myself, and you work quietly in your studio. You have gone beyond the thought, the desire to be recognised and celebrated, you are your own champion. So, you work in your private space doing some of the best work you believe you have done and then you think....my best work will go unnoticed. Now, are you still of an age when that thought bothers you or are you beyond it and all that is important is to create for your own self? This artist is beyond that point, at my age (63) I am still wanting validation but much less than last year!
Creativity keeps your mind sharp. Your body goes to shit though.
This was so wonderful. What a refreshing perspective.
I believe we've found where the root source of those unexplainable sounds being heard time to time all around the world. 😅
Stupid to Stupider to Stupidest. Stupid is not art and I am done with stupid things. Perhaps they could 'discover' a cello and 'discover' Bach.
If drugs could talk .😅
well we know where some of the sky trumpet sounds are coming from
😍👏👊
Wonderful to discover Robert Barnes here.
So glad I found this wonderful work.
15 minutes of pure gold in my very humble opinion, his thoughts and general philosophies (which felt like looking into some kind of mirror because I couldn't agree more with so much of what was expressed) honestly have helped me visualize even more a life of my own making my silly art. thank u John i adore your art and brain Lol
'Show me a computer that makes mud pies' 💓
All druggies talk about ‘the now’ ‘no mind’ etc …I mean come on dude!
you'll never get it.