KELLY BARRIE
KELLY BARRIE
"Mirror House", a haunting new, large-format photographic work that includes aspects of drawing, dance, performance, and digital collage to investigate the relationship between historical memory and aesthetic practice using the calamity of Hurricane Katrina as the backdrop.
Barrie started with a found photograph of a flooded house and tree from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. While most of Barrie's raw materials are images of the after effects of traumatic events, in this work, the ghost image of the house and tree and the slightest hint of water is more evocative of a dreamscape than a pictorial representation of the tragic event. The resulting work: a poignant mural that creates a disorientation of a Surrealist image made from a real disaster.
Barrie's work navigates between photography, performance, drawing and digital collage. He performs his response to his found photographic imagery on his studio floor by literally drawing the image with his feet, manipulating photo-luminescent pigment on black paper, using toe drags, heel spins, snake walks, and foot sweeps. The result is photographed with a 35 mm camera utilizing natural daylight stored in the light-sensitive powder. The powders light is released by using the vertical blinds in the artists studio as a type of aperture.
< Installation: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Fall 2011
Barrie Name Trees
Name Trees, Saint Pierre de Varengeville -Duclair Forest, Rouen Normandy, circa 19452009Lambda print, mounted on aluminum46 x 78 inches framed
Barrie Twenty Grand
Twenty Grand, Saint Pierre de Varengeville -Duclair Forest, Rouen Normandy, circa 19452009Lambda print, mounted on aluminum86 x 44 inches framed
