Artist Talk: Patrick O'Brien, Mary Day Long, and Ed Barr
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
7-9pm
Learn firsthand the processes, inspiration, and techniques of artists Patrick O'Brien, Mary Day Long, and Ed Barr.
Light Paintings is a series of monochromatic abstract images created by long-exposure photography. Using a unique process, Patrick O’Brien AKA the 3-Eyed man captures stationary objects through a camera in motion, utilizing the camera as a brush and the subject as paint.
Captured over the course of a year, The Year of the Pandemic is comprised of photographic images taken by Mary Day Long. The viewer will see humans, while scarce in early images, appear more and more frequently. Snow arrives and melts away, dry creek beds fill with water, bare trees start to leaf out, storms build and fade, summer sets in and dries out the landscape, trees drop their leaves, and winter returns.
Reflecting the rise of condos throughout the Austin downtown area, Ed Barr’s installations evoke a sense of luxury and presumed success. Upon closer inspection, the work elicits questions concerning hierarchy, and addresses issues of loneliness, conformity, and materialism while uttering recriminations about homelessness and wealth disparity.
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For more information about this event, email JCBGallery@austintexas.gov
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