Barbara Paris, curated
I CURATE!
- Curations by: The Artist
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Barbara Paris
- City: Austin, Texas
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Barbara Paris is an American painter, art teacher and multi-media artist, born in New York City of a Jewish father and a Armenian mother. Her early years were filled with a family that surrounded and nurtured her. Bolstered by her parents encouragement, she left home in order to pursue her interest in art. Barbara Paris graduated from UMASS with a dual major in fine Arts and art education.
Drawing on personal experiences, including raising kids,being a single mom,and teaching. Barbara’s works are often characterized by inspiration. She insist: “I paint with absolutely no preplanned objective or agenda, and I am always able to convey that inspiration.”
While her career was filled with success – her private life was not. Her marriage was tumultuous and ended. Her life changed dramatically, and like so many single working mothers, Barbara would have to leave the house for work early, before her elementary kids were out of bed. Her workday was filled with pain and concern about her children, getting themselves up and ready for school all on their own, no mother to give them a smile or word on encouragement or a kiss goodby as they headed out the door. After working 16 hours a day she often found herself wake up with paint on her hands, arms, or legs. Helping her to stay sane and able to handle the struggles of the days was her art.
In her art collection titled: “A bullet, A heart……a bullet takes on a different perspective. In all things there is good and there is bad, I trust in duality. Sometimes love feels like hate with a bruise, driving me to seek to understand and allow my instincts to direct me. Just as our mind and body knows what it needs when we trust. My art has become an extension of this process of seeking, of direction, of trust – and particularly in things that are otherwise overlooked. I am simply a tool being directed by instincts.”
Barbara Paris work can be found in many public and private art collections In her work she reproduces familiar visual shapes and signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces with the focus on our pursuit of peace and calm in contrast to the chaos or lack of tranquility. As paint drips down the canvas she allows it to have a plan of its own causing an abstract condition of peace the painting seeks to define.
Barbara’s paintings can be purchased at her Studio in Austin, Texas.