NYAB Event - Roger Barnes “Housepainting”

Roger Barnes “Housepainting”

Bowery Gallery

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Roger Barnes has always had an interest in and a connection to houses and architecture, both professionally and personally. He became interested in houses as a subject for this series of paintings while sitting on a bench outside his cottage on the coast of Nova Scotia. From the position of that bench, the houses had a background of sky and sea only and could be viewed as sculptural objects in themselves and in their relationship to the forms and spaces of, and between, adjacent houses.

While Barnes’s interest is primarily in making paintings, the subject matter—houses and related human shelters—can trigger individual associations that add a layer of significance to the paintings, much as the traditional nude or still life establish a baseline of meaning.

Art historically, buildings tended to be in the background; Barnes puts them in the foreground.

Barnes studied at The Art Students League of NY under Morris Kantor, George Grosz, Reginald Marsh, and others. He worked in Graphic Design in New York and was Design Director of The Taunton Press in Newtown, CT. He taught art at Westover School and has exhibited in group and one-man shows in Connecticut, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago.