MARK BARRY

About the Artist

Solo Exhibitions Highland Center For the arts, Greensboro, Vt  Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont  Gango Gallery, Portland, Oregon Knight Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Limner Gallery, New York, New York Lucas Gallery, Telluride, Colorado Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland Swanson Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky Vermont Arts Exchange, N. Bennington, Vermont Group Exhibitions “26th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2023 “25th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2022 “Deep Blue”, curated by Katherine Bradford, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vt. Summer 2021 “Without Borders”, traveling exhibition of artist book pages, curated  Elysium Gallery, Swansea, GB  Area Code Art Fair, Inaugural online exhibit of New England artists 8/20 “A Snowy Evening”, Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont 12/19 "Human Nature/Nature Human, with Deborah Brown, Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, Vermont “Made In Vermont”, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont, Summer 2018  Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York  “Works on Paper”, Blue Hill Art Center, Blue Hill, Ny “New Prints 2017/Summer”, IPCNY, New York “New Prints 2015/Summer”, IPCNY, New York “The Goddess”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass. “Child”, Maryland Art Place, Artscape 2001, Balt. Md “Figurative Speaking”, Jules Place, Boston, Mass. “Casheesh Six”, Geoffery Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass. “Hall of Portraits”, Artscape 2004, Balt. Md “Recent Paintings”, Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birm. Al. “Seeing Jazz”, Smithsonian Inst. Traveling  Ex. Serv. “Selections 32”, The Drawing Center, New York, NY. School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland “The Long Hot Summer”, Steven Scott Gallery Selected Collections  Hall Art Foundation, New York, Ny  Fidelity Investments, Boston, Ma.  Cordes Collection, Baltimore, Md.  Gary and Deborah Lucidon, Woodbury, CT. National City Bank, Louisville, Kentucky Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland  Gordon, Feinblatt, LLC, Baltmore, Maryland The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland Brown and Forman, Louisville, Kentucky Merck+Company, Washington, DC. Health Insurance Assoc. of America, Wash, DC. Education Swain School Of Design, BFA, 1981

Artist's Statement

I paint the seemingly ordinary moments of life that aren't ordinary at all. In a world that often seems to be twisting, turning, and chaotic, to capture just a second in time or a fleeting glimpse of motion in a painting allows for a semblance of stability. Figures in a landscape, working in a garden, sailing a boat or an interior scene of a family at dinner, in each painting, I try to make the connections between the human forms and the environment. Whether through emphatic use of color or line, the exaggeration of an arm, a facial expression or a gently curving road, guiding a cyclist through a country landscape, each element of a painting is pared to it’s simplest form needed to compose a contemporary vignette.