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Notching UP Art Show

8/28/2019

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I have a goal to hang art on walls other than mine.  I decided to check out some different art groups around town and it looks like Parker Arts Guild is pretty active. So, I joined up and I submitted my work to an art show they have coming soon and got in!!!
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Come see my work at 
Notching UP
Show dates: 
August 31, 2019 - October 26, 2019
Location: Schoolhouse Gallery, 19650 Main Street, Parker, CO 80138
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ART by Gina Barry
Red Temenos 8" x 10" in a 13"x 19" frame Acrylic and Ink on paper $300
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Blue Temenos 8" x 10" in a 13"x 19" frame Acrylic and Ink on paper $300
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Blue series

7/17/2018

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Art by Gina Barry
"Forest" image size 9" x 6" on 11 x 14 paper
Art by Gina Barry
"Sunset" Image size 6" x 9" on 11x14 paper
Art by Gina Barry
"Under water" image size 9" x 6" on 11x14 paper
Art by Gina Barry
"Looks like starry night" image size 9" x 6" on 11x14 paper
Acrylic and ink on paper

I start with abstraction and work to find the order in the chaos
I added some trees
and made something beautiful
​a space to explore
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Just Daisies

6/20/2018

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Art by Gina Barry
Just Daisies by Gina Barry 18" x 36" Acrylic, ink, water soluble pencil on wood
Painting while emotional
is not my usual gig.

I have had some emotions that are unfamiliar 
like anger.

I don't like the Anger feeling
I try to talk myself out of it
I want to fix it
I clean in anger
and in this painting I added a couple of layers
while in anger

I have learned in these past couple years 
that I can't fix "it".
These happenings that make the anger grow. 
I just get to ride the wave
how I deal with what is happening
And I know I haven't dealt with them well at times.

This painting has
layers of anger
layers of sad
​layers of loss
layers of messy
layers of hope
layers of dreams
layers of following along
layers of doing my own thing
all mixed together

in the end
i learned
anger can be beautiful
in my Wabi Sabi world
as long as I don't dwell there too long
(and my house is cleaner...)

​this painting...
Two daisies.
Connected
one is turning away
Even as the other tries to hold it close
perhaps this painting is about more than
​just these flowers
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I'm a mess (in a good way)

6/7/2018

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Art by Gina Barry
Wabi Sabi Series in Progress by Gina Barry
A painting mess

 jump in (it's not in my nature - I plan and figure it all out first)

Fear is on this ride.
But as I learned from Big Magic...
fear no longer get's to drive. 

The ugly stage comes and goes.
a stage in every painting and in every life. (sometimes more than one)
I have to walk away - sleep it off - ignore the fear beast.
sometimes art get tucked away for a while
but eventually I have to come back

find the beauty in the trees
Find the trees in the chaos
Find me in the chaos
Find peace in me

this is why i do this. 
wabi sabi is finding beauty in the mess,
in the broken, in the imperfections
​that are this LIFE... it is imperfectly beautiful. 

to find beauty in the imperfections. 
"to make visible that which without me would not be seen"

my art is a safe place
to find peace and beauty
and by finding this peace and beauty in artwork, 
translate that to my life.
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