BARRY POGOREL
Culver City, California - United States



Original Artworks (13)

Barry Pogorel; Ensho, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 65 x 65 inches. Artwork description: 241   mixed media on canvas stretched on tree branches enamel spray paint, house paint, oil, acrylic, oil stick 65 inches in circumference    ...
Barry Pogorel
Original Mixed Media, 2013
65 x 65 inches (165.1 x 165.1 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Jazz, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 44 x 53 inches. Artwork description: 241  mixed media on canvas stretched on tree branchesoil stick, oil, acrylic  ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
44 x 53 inches (111.8 x 134.6 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Native, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 68 x 37 inches. Artwork description: 241  mixed media on canvas stretched on tree branchesoil, acrylic, house paint ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
68 x 37 inches (172.7 x 94.0 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Kouros, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 49 x 26 inches. Artwork description: 241  mixed media on canvas stretched on tree branchesoil, house paint ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
49 x 26 inches (124.5 x 66.0 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Knight, Death And The Devil, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 30 x 40 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil, enamel, acrylic, and reproduction from an art book on canvas        ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Erotic, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 30 x 42.5 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil, acrylic, house paint, japanese postcard, wood frame on cardboard       ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
30 x 42.5 inches (76.2 x 108.0 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Japanese, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 40.7 x 40.7 inches. Artwork description: 241  acrylic, oil, enamel spray paint, press- on- letters- and- lines, rubber fish, japanese postcard, wood frame      ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
40.7 x 40.7 inches (103.4 x 103.4 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Night Sea, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 36 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil paint and oil stick on canvas     ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; LA Harbor, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 12 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil and acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 inches on each canvas    ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Zenga 4, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 24 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241  latex paint, enamel spray paint on canvas    ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Nightmare Of Mickey, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 20 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil, enamel spray paint on canvas   ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
20 x 20 inches (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Zenga 1, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 20 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241  acrylic, enamel spray paint  ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
20 x 20 inches (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
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Barry Pogorel; Do Not Say, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 20 x 20 inches. Artwork description: 241  oil, enamel spray paint, press- on- lines- and- letters ...
Barry Pogorel
Original Mixed Media, 2013
20 x 20 inches (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
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Artist Statement



At first, as a young artist, I worked very hard to imitate the artists and art that I loved.

Then, a little later in my career, I worked very hard to not imitate artists and art I loved, but tried to be unique.

Now I do neither. I am concerned with something else—the expression of what I cannot express any other way.

Paintings say things you cannot say in words.

Ultimately, I think Lao Tzu had it right 2,500 years ago: “Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.” I think visual art is like this. You can say things in a painting that you cannot say in words (or you would be, perhaps, a poet).

Art can make an enormous difference in the quality of life. It lets us dwell for a moment in something profound, something eternal. The human experience. It is about the best (and worst) of being human.

Many of my paintings take 10 years or more to complete. Painting on top of painting, each one opening up the possibility of the next one—layer upon layer, getting closer to what I am looking to express. Sometimes, if it goes the other way, the painting is destroyed and that particular inquiry is ended.

I have always engaged in the question: how do I create a great painting?

The act of making art itself is aligning with the source of the universe. It’s really inexplicable. When I make a painting, I am not “me.” I’m talking about when art is really happening. It’s transcendent. I feel used by something bigger than myself. What gets expressed is a voice that is not mine, but all of ours.
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