Much has been said on Evol heading up this years Pictures on Walls Xmas show but one of the highlights has got to be the appearance of Bill Barminski, check the videos on the link below.
Bill Barminski is a self taught artist whose work extends across a broad range of mediums including painting, interactive media, music videos, graphic design and music. His work includes solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, unique projects such as E3 booth design for Nokia Interactive, billboard design for Absolut Vodka, designing gas masks based on cartoon characters and directing and co-directing music videos for Baz Lurhamn, Gnarls Barkley, Death Cab for Cutie to name a few. Recent video projects have been featured at the Sun Dance Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Starting in the mid 1980’s Barminski began painting and drew his subject matter from classic advertising from the 50’ 60’s and 70’s. His paintings are visually colorful and exhibit a strong graphic sense that informs the content which addresses mass media and consumer culture in an ironic manner. His shows often incorporate video installations and sculpture elements to unify his themes. His paintings hang in many collections and have been reviewed in numerous magazines such as Art in America, Art Forum and Flash Art. A review in Art in America said of his work, “The advertising-derived images that Barminski incorporates into his paintings are meant to evoke postwar America. Like filmmaker David Lynch and others, Barminski is interested in the ominously surreal side of the good life.”
In the 1990’s Barminski designed several award winning interactive projects based on his own art work. These projects included Barminski: Consumer Product, The Encyclopedia of Clamps and Cyclops Boy, The One Eyed Detective. Mark Frauenfelder described this interactive work in the pages of Wired Magazine as “…like a carnival operated by Bill Gaines and B.F. Skinner.”
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