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EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
BURT BARR: RECENT WORK
September 21, 2006 - January 22, 2007
P.S.1 is pleased to present Burt Barr: Recent Work, an exhibition that showcases four new works by the New York-based artist. With themes drawn from nature and culture, Barr's low-tech and deliberately understated videos effectively heighten our awareness of time passing. This exhibition is on view from September 21, 2006 through January 22, 2006.
In Summer 2005 Looped (2005), which debuts here, Barr turns the camera on the idyllic setting of a yard behind a shingled house on Long Island. Rivulets of water that run over and distort this scene of the artist relaxing on a bench set amidst grass and trees lend a hallucinatory quality to an otherwise uneventful sequence. Barr achieved this "special" effect by shooting into a mirror onto which he also aimed a sprinkler gun.
Nature once again provides the setting for Fall (2003), which features two turtles mating in the rain. The rich colors of the turtles' patterned shells and the background vegetation contribute to the drama of this slow-paced event. Moving indoors to the more rarefied world of the artist's studio, Watching The Paint Dry: Red (2005) and Watching the Paint Dry: Blue (2005), shown here for the first time, allow visitors to engage in this proverbial activity by watching larger than life size images of brushstrokes.
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Fall (2003) by Burt Barr
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