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Artist Exhibitions:
Barry Masteller
Website:
www.barrymasteller.com
email: barrymasteller@aol.com
Born: Echo Park District, Los
Angeles, California
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 Patricia Rovzar Gallery,
“Paintings”, Seattle, WA
2007 The Grace Museum, “Earth
+ Sky”, Abilene, TX
2007 Caldwell / Snyder
Gallery, “Recent Paintings”,
Saint Helena, CA
2007 Caldwell / Snyder
Gallery, “Recent Paintings”,
San ...
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Artist Statement for Barry Masteller
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When I begin a painting I am rarely sure how it will resolve. It is in itself a part of a greater whole. That is; it has something in it of the work before it. In this I believe painting is like language and paintings like words, each making-up a kind of vocabulary whose meaning becomes clearer or at least more complete with each subsequent work.
My images are not of real places but of the imagined, felt or memorized-places of the mind. I like to think of them as magical and dream like aspects of the deeper mind and subconscious. However my work is not limited to making interesting or even thought provoking pictures, though I certainly hope they are. I am after all a painter; which means that paint itself is my medium of choice as opposed to other crafts. I find power and excitement in the medium and application, in the fluid to solid quality. In glazing, scumbling, scratching, scraping and wiping away. In the laying down of veils of color and in the pure physical interplay between the canvas and myself.
Painting for me is like magic, what you see is not what you see. Paint is mere paint until the mind of the painter sets it free and uses it to create something magical and visual-something that has the power to stir emotion, memory and feeling and transport the viewer to another place in time.
Barry Masteller
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