BWR
BLACK WHITE & RED DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS and DIGITAL ART BY LEE BARRY
SONG OF APOLLO PUBLISHING
c/o Object Design & Media Box A3914 Chicago, Illinois 60690-3914
In a continuum of luminance from complete darkness to pure white, the first logical color frequencies are red and orange hues.
The logical answer to the question “After white black and gray, what would be the next logical color?” would presumably be a unanimous--RED. Red has a widerange of cultural associations, and what it may connote, e.g. life and death (when mixed with black), love and affection (pink) when mixed with white, and myriad other meanings. But regardless of those metaphors, black, white and red have become a way of removing decisions about color and concentrating on form.
First published as an E-book in USA in 2013 by: Song of Apollo Publishing c/o Object Design & Media P.O. Box A3914 Chicago, Illinois 60690 soapublishing@gmail.com Copyright © 2013 Lee Barry. All rights reserved.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Processed Photographs
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 2) 11”x14”
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 1) 11”x14”
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 3) 11”x14”
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 4) 11”x14”
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 7) 11”x14”
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 8) 11”x14”
Black White & Red (Processed Photograph No. 9) 11”x14”
Digital Treatments
Illinois Center Chicago (2008)
SCULPTURE
Interval Cubes
6”x 6”x 2” acrylic on wood cubes
Unison
Minor Second
Diminished Fifth
Perfect Fifth
Major Second
Minor Third
Minor Sixth
Major Sixth
Major Third
Perfect Fourth
Minor Seventh
Major Seventh
3 Against 4, Acrylic on plywood (Maquette) 24”x24”
Vectorized object using photographs of an actual object, in this case a cast iron shoe-shine stand, painted red. The stand is the readymade, and the print is a derivation as a visual ‘pun’ as the stand is red in color. “Redimade” Shoe-shine stand
BWR in Car Colors In aerial views of parking lots one typically sees car colors that are some shade of black, shades of gray, silvers, and various shades of red. Shades of blue still exist but are less common. The gamut of car paint colors in the 1960s and 1970s was somewhat more varied, with bright yellows, greens and purples, but the range was still primarily the black, white and red shades.
Parking Lot (Black) Black objects reversed out
Parking Lot (White) White objects reversed out
Parking Lot (Red) Red objects reversed out
COLLAGE
Macrophage I, 14.75” x 18.75” mixed media on plywood
Macrophage II, 14.75” x 18.75” mixed media on plywood
Debord, 11” x 14” fabric, sandpaper, acrylic on board
Miro-Mondrian, 11”x14” acrylic on wool fabric
WORKS ON PAPER
Out-Of-Tune, 8” x 10” inkjet on rice paper
Augmented Octave, 8” x 10” inkjet on rice paper
Unfurling, 25” x 17.75” acrylic on rice paper
First Futurist, 8”x8” acrylic on score paper with inkjet overprints
Indeterminate Pitch, 8” x 10” acrylic on rice paper with interrupted
Snip, 20”x20” acrylic and gouache on paper
Snip, video frame captures
Achtung, 11”x14” gouache on paper
Redimade, 36”x24” Digital Giclee Print
BLACK WHITE & RED Gallery of all images can be viewed at: http://www.art.leebarry.net/black-white--red.html