{"title":"Elizabeth Barnes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/elizabeth-barnes\/elizabeth-barnes-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Barnes (she\/her) is a Vancouver-based artist and educator. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She creates work in digital media and with paint and has maintained an active studio practice while teaching in both community and academic settings over the past 35 years. Recently, she retired from the faculty of fine arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University to pursue her studio practice full-time. Her work has been exhibited in both public and commercial galleries throughout the United States and Canada, and is in collections across North America, Europe, and in China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eI use paint to create narrative abstractions, combining structure with feeling, and finding meaning that exists in the space between the viewer and the canvas. The indeterminate nature of abstraction defines the uncertainty of the present moment. How we see is not timeless. It changes with technology, science, and culture.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eI use geometry to honour complexity. I use the grid in my work to ground it in the present. The grid has become part of our interconnected world. It is our current technology of perception. My painted grids hover somewhere between the painting and the viewer, in the infinite space of experience.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eMaking paintings is a slow investigation into patterns that define everyday experience. Painting obliterates any sense of time or space. It requires unhurried attention. A painting's surface is built incrementally. Forms overlap, appear, disappear, transform, vibrate, or sit in stillness, but nothing remains fixed.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eAll is in flux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/collections\/elizabeth-barnes.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}