Daniel Barrow: Good Gets Better

ON NOVEMBER 18 DANIEL BARROW WON THE $50,000 2010 SOBEY ART AWARD

Winnipeg-born, Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written, pictorial, and cinematic narratives using drawing and collage to develop live-animation performances. He creates and adapts his narratives to “manual” forms of animation by projecting, layering, and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.

Each of Barrow’s episodic narratives develops from a series of detailed collages in which the emotions and tribulations of his characters are explored. As critic Joseph R. Wolin writes, “Barrow’s masterful storytelling mixes high camp, lurid horror and histrionic sentimentality in a potent brew that engenders not only entertainingly ironic humour but a hauntingly real sense of pathos.” His first solo exhibition at the gallery will include over 25 drawings and a new projection piece.

Daniel Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad, and is the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award. (He was also a finalist in 2008). Barrow has had solo exhibitions with the Art Gallery of York University (2010) and the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina (2009). Among his numerous performances in Canada and the United States are recent engagements at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2010), and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2009). Barrow is the 2007 winner of the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton award and the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images Prize for his Every time I see your picture I cry. Daniel Barrow first exhibited his work at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in 2006 in Fantasia, with Shary Boyle and Duke and Battersby.

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