Jane Barrow
January 22, 2008 by Chris
Jane Barrow, Air to Air, at the University of Central Missouri’s Art Center Gallery, January 14-February 22, 2008.
Artist talk Wednesday, January 23rd at 3 PM in the Gallery
January 22, 2008 by Chris
Jane Barrow, Air to Air, at the University of Central Missouri’s Art Center Gallery, January 14-February 22, 2008.
Artist talk Wednesday, January 23rd at 3 PM in the Gallery
What’s happening materially and spatially here? There’s an ambiguity as to the surface in the photograph, and I’m wondering how that translated from the ‘real’ space of the installation.
I found one other image on the USM website in which the paper trail coming off onto the floor is clear as to its construction, although the upper half I’m unsure of - is it painted directly onto the wall, or is there another surface?
I love the look of this dying fighter plane. In the other image I’m looking at there is an even greater contrast between the silhouette of the plane and crane and the white of the wall, as well as the material seems to spill onto the floor even more than in this image. And the delicacy of the lines holding the bulk of the plane feels as if this could drop at any moment. Is it just paint on paper perhaps? It looks so fragile.
Hey, Brent. I didn’t see the show, so I can’t answer the questions. I was told that the photo doesn’t really provide much of an idea of the work in the gallery. Maybe someone else can comment about it.
(Funny. I hadn’t thought about this post in while. A Stealth bomber crashed in the Pacific a couple weeks ago. Those are stationed at Whiteman just outside of Warrensburg, where this show was installed. The pilots (who survived) and their families live around there. It’s sort of shifted how I look at the photo.)