Itziar Barrio will present a selection of recent work as well as work-in-progress. The repetition and extension of icons into Barrio's murals, animations, and drawings exemplifies the relationship that society has with everyday objects as recurring icons, whether those be practical objects embedded in our lives or abstract advertisement media creations. In this way, the artist brings up questions that are not overtly social or political, but that deal with the tendency of the human mind to create iconic and associative characters out of its surroundings and the effects of those associations on society.Itziar Barrio was born in 1976 in Bilbao, Spain and currently lives and works in New York City. She combines a wide range of media spanning the gamut of drawing, photography, video, animation and installation. Barrio has been featured in solo shows internationally has been the recipient of grants and awards from major foundations and institutions including First Prize Ertibil, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Basque Government Ministry of Culture and Bizkaia Executive Council, Gure Artea Biennial Prize and the Iberoamerican Videocreation Prize, MUSAC (Leon). Itziar Barrio's Salon is supported by the Consulate General of Spain in New York and the Spain Foreign Cultural Cooperation Agency.
Link to artist's website: http://www.itziarbarrio.com
Image: "The perils of obedience (-1), 2010, on-going, multimedia project
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