Richard Barlow
Richard Barlow
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Cenotaph, 2020
Site-specific chalk drawing
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AFTER FIRST ALTERATION
AFTER SECOND ALTERATION
"Unlike previous chalk drawings, I intend this piece to change over the course of the exhibition. I will return at intervals to alter the drawing to suggest wear and weathering in the lead-up to its eventual destruction."
AFTER THIRD ALTERATION
"My artistic practice is largely devoted to large scale, temporary, and site-specific drawings of the natural world produced with chalk directly on gallery walls. These fragile drawings are erased at the end of their exhibition, a meditation on impermanence. This scene comes from photographs I took of Vroman’s Nose, a peak in the Catskills that is featured in Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire series, an anxious meditation on uncertainty from another perilous time in our country’s history."
Richard Barlow is a visual artist and musician. He has an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work is exhibited nationally. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, NY. Previously, he taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Cloud State University and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. His recent band, Take Acre, released their self-titled debut LP at the end of 2010, followed by a digital only album, Cut from a Cloud, and a limited edition vinyl EP featuring their cover of Arvo Part's “Spiegel im Spiegel.” For the past decade he has worked as one of the co-curators and organizers of Heliotrope, a three-day festival of underground local music in Minneapolis.
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