BARNSTORMERS
If you have ever been in rural North Carolina (or any southern state for that matter) and noticed an unusually, out of place painting on the side of a tractor-trailer? Shack maybe? Or piece of farm equipment? Wipe the dirt from your eyes, and adjust the isomorphic dial that coordinate spatial relations and temporal relations among objects – blink twice. This is Barnstormers. A fleet of New York/Japan-based artists creating large-scale collaborative paintings, films, and performances. They are a collective of up to thirty artists, each distinct in style, that have solidified their character and paint on the walls of barns in disrepair during their annual trips down to Cameron, NC. Their motion paintings, filmed from a camera secured to the ceiling, use the floor as a large canvas for the layers of their creativity to unfold. Individual incantations, together, invaded, and mutually manifested resulting in an organic shift of material. A dynamic urban shift, unmeasured, but unmistakably street lethal.
Letter to the President features one of my favourite artists Doze Green.
