BARRY ANDERSON
Intermissions
August 14 - October 21, 2009
Gallery reception: September 29, 5-8pm
Music premiere and Syracuse Symposium lecture beginning at 6pm
Barry Anderson’s videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.
Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcomed artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus. Click here to see a list of the current venues.
Anderson’s colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.
The level of collaboration that is provided through this exhibition and programming is an exciting step for the arts in Syracuse and will bring a common thread through all involved spaces during the exhibition period. Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.
This exhibition will reach students and the community as a whole, including people who may not normally take time to visit a gallery—they may come across the project by walking by a video projected onto a window or building, they may drive past a billboard that functions as a piece of art instead of an advertisement, or they may encounter the project in the cafeteria or as a snippet they see on the Orange TV Network.
Light Work has been bringing artists and exhibitions to campus for over thirty-seven years. The public access darkrooms, galleries, and offices are located at 316 Waverly Avenue in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.
Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.
For more information about Anderson's installations, single-channel work, and still photography, visit his website.
Click here to see information specific to each venue.
In conjunction with the gallery reception and lecture for Intermissions, Light Work will premiere a musical/video collaboration, titled Genome of the Soul, between Anderson and local composer Andrew Waggoner at the event.
Waggoner has composed a unique piece of music in collaboration with Anderson, who then created the accompanying visual components. As part of the gallery reception and lecture on Tuesday, September 29, Waggoner’s group, the Open End Ensemble (Nurit Pacht, violin; Andrew Waggoner, violin; Tawnya Popoff, viola; and Caroline Stinson, cello), will perform the music composition live with the video. This will be the first performance of the piece, and will be a premiere that should not be missed.
Waggoner studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music, and Cornell University. His music has been commissioned and performed by the Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Saint Louis, Denver, Syracuse, and Winnipeg Symphonies; the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Degas Quartets; and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, among others. He has received grants and prizes from ASCAP, Yaddo, The New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, New Music Delaware, the Eastman School of Music, and Syracuse University. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Roger Sessions Prize for an American composer by the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, where he was in residence at Bogliasco in the spring of 2008. In 2009 he received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently composer-in-residence at the Setnor School of Music of Syracuse University. He recently formed the Open End Ensemble with his wife, cellist Caroline Stinson, giving concerts over the past three seasons in New York, Syracuse, Strasbourg, and Florence.
The other musicians in Open End Ensemble include Tawnya Popoff, Nurit Pacht, and Caroline Stinson. Canadian violist Tawnya Popoff enjoys a versatile international career. In addition to being principal violist with the Vancouver Opera (Canada), she is a founding member of the Athabasca String Trio, and performs regularly with VisionIntoArt (VIA) (NY), the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (TX). Canadian cellist Caroline Stinson lives in New York City and appears throughout Canada, the United States and Europe as a soloist and chamber music artist. Known for her expressive and personal interpretation of new works, Stinson is sought after for performances of both traditional and contemporary repertoire and has been a repeat soloist with the Syracuse Symphony under Daniel Hege. Violinist Nurit Pacht was selected as one of the "Stars of the Year 2000" by Le Monde de la Musique and since then her career has blossomed with appearances in London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Moscow's Great Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, Carnegie's Weill Hall, The People's Hall of China in Beijing and at Ravinia's Rising Stars Series.
Several events will be held through September 2009 in various Syracuse venues in conjunction with Intermissions.
August 20 (Th3)
SUArt Galleries: Gallery opening for Winslow Homer exhibition, and video Lawn Ornaments by Barry Anderson in video theatre, 5-7pm
August 20 (Th3)
Everson Museum of Art: Gallery talk by Barry Anderson, 6pm
September 17 (Th3)
Red House Arts Center: Gallery opening of Raphael Lyon exhibition, and video panels by Barry Anderson, 5-8pm
September 17 (Th3)
The Warehouse Gallery: Gallery opening of Marco Maggi exhibition, and video installation Memory Bleed by Barry Anderson, 5-8pm
September 17 (Th3)
The Point of Contact Gallery: Gallery opening of Marco Maggi exhibition, with video panels by Barry Anderson, 5-8pm
September 29
Light Work: Gallery reception and lecture by Barry Anderson, with live music performance, 5-8pm
Student Film Screenings
In conjunction with Intermissions, Light Work is pleased to invite you to a screening of films by students at Syracuse University and in Kansas City. The same screening will take place in Kansas City as well, thus creating a connection between the two schools as part of the Intermissions project.
Screening at Syracuse, October 13
Light Work: 6:00pm, Watson Auditorium, Robert B. Menschel Media Center
Screening at Kansas City, October 15, 16, and 17
UMKC Gallery of Art: October 15 from 7–8pm; October 16 from 9am–2pm; and October 17 from 1–5pm
Barry Anderson, Intermissions, is made possible by funding and support provided by
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