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Pigment Print

25 x 33 x 1 ½ inches

Courtesy of the Artist

Estimated Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,750

Barry Underwood transforms ordinary landscapes into immersive, often surreal scenes using staged installations and long-exposure photography. Drawing on his early theatrical training and influenced by staged photography and constructed set design, Underwood works on-site over several days to build temporary light-based interventions that both collaborate with and subtly disrupt the natural environment. Using LEDs and electroluminescent wire, his compositions emphasize shape, line, and vivid color to suggest how landscapes are divided, altered, and shaped by human activity.  The glow of his temporary light installations and the final artworks he creates reflect, literally, on these environments as if to say that all of humankind’s actions or inactions eventually cast a light back on us all.