Dan Barry has been drawn to creating mixed media, found image collaged drawings since he was a young person growing up in northern Wisconsin. Dan’s love of vintage visual media has grown and developed throughout his professional career.
After living in Austin, Texas for many years, Dan recently moved to a small town in south central Pennsylvania. Now settled into and working in his new studio, he continues to combine the marks of his hand with vintage ephemera, both old and new. His themes remain deeply personal, often left purposely ambiguous. Dan skillfully infuses his artworks with an emotional charge, in ways that make them universal.
Dan Barry’s artwork reflects our difficult times in their exploration of loss, life, and mortality, as well as our ongoing desire for deep human connection. His work invites us to reflect upon our own lives and embrace the place of love, loss, hope, disappointment, anxiety and the passage of time.
Email Dan at dbarry71@yahoo.com for inquiries and commissions.
"For as long as I can remember I have been an explorer, a collector, an image maker and a story teller with a Self Revelatory Urge. My artworks have always been a reflection, and ambiguous journal, of what is happening in my life, mind and surroundings at any given time."
~ Dan Barry
"The overall effect of the images Dan creates is one of both tension and a sense of being adrift: the characters in the pieces are often composites of heads and bodies, some solitary and seeming lost, while their environment is somewhat desolate but controlled by Dan’s tight use of repeated elements. There is loneliness and disorder, but there is beauty and delicacy, too, sets of traits that are not mutually exclusive, either in art or in life. This is the balance that Dan’s work seems to ask us to look for as we consider his pieces and how they might resonate with us as individuals."
~ Julie Antilock Winters, Miroir Magazine
"Dan Barry's artworks are a reflection upon the fragility of human life, loss, transitions and anxiety. His most recent works chronicle the artist’s daily personal response to the general climate of dread and chaos found in current world events. For those who choose to take the time to engage with these mixed media drawings, it is Barry’s hope that some of the works utter a delicate, soothing whisper, while others deal a more brutal blow."
~ Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery