Artist Entry #5 Tina Barney Monday October 4, 2010 :

Artist  Entry #5 Tina Barney: Monday October 4, 2010 :

- Small paragraph explaining why you have chosen this artist in relation to your Studio practice 


When I found Tina Barneys' photographs I was immediately struck by the eye contact and strangeness of the individuals in the photographs. I had been wanting to achieve a strange oddness in my photos that did not come across cheesy or immature.  I find there to be a guarded hollowness in her photographs that I find disturbing. There is a lot of technical things I find appealing about her photographs though. 

- Artist Biography (can use quotes from critics or galleries)
Born in New York, New York in 1945, Barney now lives and works between Rhode Island and New York City. Barney has had a multitude of solo and group shows some more resent have been; “The Portrait. Photography as a Stage”, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria“, "The Art of Caring,” New Orleans Museum of Art, and New Orleans, LA, and “The Portrait. Photography as a Stage” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna in 2009. Barneys' editorial work has been in such publications as, The New York Times ,The Daily Telegraph, W Magazine, The Fashion, and Vogue Homme



- 2 Quotes - provide quotes with MLA citations commenting on ideas you are interested in the artist you are highlighting

"A narrative is suggested, but as the title [Marina’s Room, 1987] implies, the picture is as much about the things found in the room, as it is about the people who occupy it." 


Museum of Contemporary Photography. Web. 03 Oct. 2010. <http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/barney_tina.php>.


“When people say that there is a distance, a stiffness in my photographs, that the people look like they do not connect, my answer is, that this is t)he best we can do. This inability to show physical affection is in our heritage.” While the myth that material comfort ensures personal contentment is an alluring one, "
(although my photographs will span all economic stature not just the elite like Barneys' this disconnect between individuals is still apparent.)


"So the Story Goes." The Art Institute of Chicago. Web. 02 Oct. 2010. <http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/story/barney.html>.






- a link to an interviewwith the artist or a review


interview




- link to gallery representing artist
http://www.janetbordeninc.com/artists/Barney

- link to artist website
http://www.gallery339.com/html/artistresultsFull.asp?type=All
http://www.janetbordeninc.com/artists/Barney




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