Cara barers book photography san francisco center for the book. This encouraged her to make a piece of art using old books and magazines to make this form out of glue and paperclips. Buy art at exclusive members only pricing at the leading online contemporary art marketplace. Cara barer is well known for her book sculptures, book photography, and paper sculptures. Maps, encyclopedias, phone books, and old computer manuals are more than just obsolete sources of information for fine art photographer cara barer. Butterfly 2 2006 fine art photographer cara barer transforms old books into complex works of art, breathing new life and purpose into objects that would ordinarily collect dust or be discarded. A short survey of book art bedford art center, san francisco, ca g altered books. Dream tree started off as a novel titled enigma while blue butterfly was, in its previous life, an ordinary yellow pages.
Fine art photographer cara barers book sculptures photos. About the artist my photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical. Cara barer cara barer visually documents the way in which society has come to retrieve information by changing a common reference book into a work of sculpture and photographing the outcome. Photographer cara barer has been working on a beautiful book art series since 2004. Hazelton hotel art collection by lma comm studio issuu. The outdated publications serve as materials and subjects for the houstonbased artist s ongoing series of works. Houston based artist cara barer channels familiar iconography in her still life photographs. Cara barer posted in book art, tagged art, book art, book artist, cara barer, photography on may 6, 2009 4 comments. Kiteinvitations via oh happy day summer pool party, spa party, fun ideas. Cara barer susan spiritus gallery fine art photography. It takes a true artist to see an aesthetic form in a wet phone beautiful sculptural photography made from old books cara barer on vimeo. Through my art, i document this and raise questions about the fragile and ephemeral nature of. Cara barer is an american photographer known for her images of book sculptures.
In her experimentation with curling irons, clothes pins and water, barer transforms volumes of irrelevant and outdated information into coiled, crumpled. Fine art photographer cara barer has created two new beautiful book sculptures. Andrea schwartz san francisco california art galleries. Assortment of my bookguns from the 90s, image 2010 robert the collection of the artist the quarterly conversation issue 12 summer 2008 the book art of robert the, cara barer, and jacqueline rush lee by elizabeth wadell.
Post jobs, find pros, and collaborate commissionfree in our. Barer has been represented in numerous exhibitions across the u. Upcoming cara barer photography book sculpture, book. Cara barer transforms them into vivid photographic floral bursts, mike stilkey paints on book bindings and stacked spines like other artists paint on canvas, and melinda tidwell cuts and pastes book bits and pieces into literary collages. About the artist my photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical evolution. Cara barer coloring book 2 2018 available for sale. Photography by cara barer at andrea schwartz gallery. She photographed its intricately bent pages and soon began the search for more books, and more methods to change their appearance. Cara barer photography book sculpture, book photography, paper. Each book tells me how to begin according to its size, type of paper, and sometimes contents.
September 19, 20 by cbarer in uncategorized and tagged book art, book photographs, fine art leave a comment. Book sculptures cara barer photography book sculpture. Throughout the entire hotel, the hazelton has created an art collection that features a wide variety of works focused on canadian artists. Check out these stunning photographs by photographer and sculptor cara barer. I hope to raise questions about these changes, the ephemeral and fragile nature in which we now obtain knowledge, and the future of books. Rena bransten, andrea schwartz san francisco california.
Cara barer reincarnates old books via photography and sculpture while pangchieh hsu paints up his perspective on piles of chinese currency. Original oils, acrylics, sculpture, photographs, and. Cara barer on first glance, houston photographer cara barers photographs of waterdamaged books are a beautiful form of book art in which. Incredibly beautiful book art of cara barer strictlypaper. Cara barer artist biography, past and future exhibitions. Cara barer s inspiration came when she saw a rainsoaked yellow pages lying on the ground. Jackson the wild and colorful pages of old books are the medium of choice for artist cara barer, whose literary sculptures encompass fine art, photography, design and creative innovation. Coiled and crumpled, they segue into a considered commentary on the changing role of libraries, societys relationship with how it accesses and values knowledge, and in a technologically. The university of mississippi museum brian dettmer. Beautiful sculptural photography made from old books. Lawbooks, hindsdale county courthouse, lake city, co. Phone books, software manuals, reference books, and other obsolete and discarded books find their way into her work. Cara barer has influenced me in a lot of my work and is my favourite artist in this topic. Archival digital prints free delivery possible on eligible purchases.
Incredibly beautiful book art of cara barer posted on april 27, 2012 by jasmine texas based photographer cara barer puts a new meaning in book art through her colorful sculptures out of discarded phone books, computer manuals, maps and the. A new object artspace at untitled, oklahoma city, ok g. Cara barer, new century i chose this piece because i thought it was clever how cara barer has evolved this book into looking like a women with wild hair wearing a red cape. Photo sculpture book sculpture abstract photography book photography artistic photography oeuvre d art. Turning books into art birmingham bloomfield art center birmingham, mi september 19 november 7, 2014 origins solo exhibition bauxi photo gallery, toronto, canada september, 2014 book ends photographs by cara barer and mary ellen bartley curator, jerry takigawa. She soaks, dyes, folds, and otherwise alters the books in various ways for the final effect. Dyed book pages from obsolete, discarded novels are ruffled and carefully arranged in circular forms, much like spiritual mandalas or blooming flowers.
Cara barer photographs outdated, abandoned and obsolete books but only after transforming them into sculptural objects. Cara barer has used books, newspapers, and magazines for most of the materials that make up her archival digital photographs. She is a graduate of the art institute of houston, the university of houston and the glassell school of art. I transform books into art by sculpting them, dyeing them and then through the medium of photography presenting them anew as objects of beauty. She got this idea from a yellow pages magazine that she saw in a puddle on the floor. I didnt spend more than a few seconds on windows 95, but the new century dictionary of the english language, is. This softcover, perfect bound catalog features 25 images from the june 28 august 9, 2014 exhibition. Dictionary aka pz 72 by cara barer susan spiritus gallery. Cara barer, new work hulsewarman gallery, taos, nm s information revisited encyclopedia britannica project, belskie museum of art and science, closter, nj g unbound. We were asked to make a cara barer recycled book art piece. Portfolio cara barer photography book sculpture, book. Books are beautiful in their own right, but these artists have managed to improve on perfection. Cara barer, book artist, took a simple and elegant idea and produced. I didnt spend more than a few seconds on windows 95, but the new century dictionary of the english language, is a treasure that, because of its fascinating.
Available for sale from bauxi gallery, cara barer, coloring book 2 2018, archival pigment print mounted on archival substrate, framed in black with plex. Cara barer artwork presented by foster white gallery, seattle. In barers latest work, the artists own creations books bound with sheet. Cara barer body of work at andrea schwartz gallery. Books, physical objects and repositories of information, are being displaced by zeros and ones in a digital universe with no physicality. Cara barer is an internationally recognized houston based photographer.
Through my art, i document this and raise questions about the fragile and ephemeral nature of books and their future. Shitake by cara barer susan spiritus gallery book sculpture, abstract sculpture. Cara barer photography book sculpture, book photography. Designed for cpa by takigawa design, the book also includes statements from the artists, cara barer and mary ellen bartley. Cara barer, book artist, took a simple and elegant idea and produced these wondeful photograhs.
Cara barer coloring book 1 2018 available for sale. Cara barer and jamie brunson exhibition at andrea schwartz. She realized she owned many books that were no longer of use to her or to anyone else. Beautiful sculptural photography made from old books cara barer. Insight basic display the full interactive exhibition history and all related artist, exhibition venue, and curator pages for your research. I transform books into art by sculpting them, dyeing them and then through the medium of photography presenting them anew as objects of beauty, says barer, who uses curling irons and water to manipulate outdated, abandoned and obsolete books before immortalizing with her camera. Through her art she documents this loss of the physical record of books, and raises questions about the fragile nature of the book and its future.
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