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| “Paintings, Poetry, Sculpture: an Installation” by artist Barbara Thun. The opening reception will be on Friday, October 1st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm and will include a gallery talk and poetry reading by the artist in the Patsy Francis Gallery at 7:00pm. |
Barbara Thun
Exhibition & Reception
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In her artist’s statement, Barbara says: “Color and texture, the written word and combinations of images and mediums are the basis of my work. I strive to create a work of beauty that draws the viewer in to respond to the imagery.” As well as painting, working in pastels and printmaking, Barbara does sculptures and installations. While primitive cultures and landscapes have served as the basis for most of her work, other themes include women in the structured society of the late 19th century and a wide range of poetry which serves to unlock a visual narrative. Her installation of totems and photographs entitled “Elegy I” and “Elegy II” pays tribute to the strength, as well as the vulnerability, of those women and tells an imaginary journey of what their lives might have been. In her words, “My art is a process. It begins with an image – real or imagined, or a phrase, or a question. From there it moves to the possibilities – in mediums available or combinations of forms. Does the process evolve into an installation, or is the content strong enough to be a single piece? As it begins to take shape, the learning can be complex and that is both the challenge and the real reward.”
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Barbara is a working artist, living in Sinking
Spring, PA and has recently started summering in
Marion, Massachusetts. She currently has a
studio at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts in
Reading, PA., where she is a member of the Board
and chair of the Exhibitions Committee. She
received her MFA in 1989 from Bard College and
taught at Plymouth State College in New
Hampshire for two years. She has worked as a
volunteer chair of several arts support groups
in PA. Barbara is a past trustee of Albright
College. Barbara has exhibited her work at Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, Delaware Center for the Arts, Allentown Museum, the Reading Public Museum, the Yocum Institute of the Arts, Reading Jewish Center, Fleisher Memorial Drawing Center in Philadelphia, and numerous galleries in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania |
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