Louise Barry rediscovered and learned to play the musical objects of Elsewhere. She searched the collection for instruments, musical toys, and the musical projects of previous artists, and cleaned, repaired and played them. She created a video using footage of people playing the objects layered with text from collection books about music. She also self-published a catalog of drawings of the objects, done in pen, reproduced in-house and hand-bound into a booklet.

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Apr 11, 2012

Louise Barry

Apr 11, 2012

Louise Barry is an artist who works in drawing and mixed media installation, usually creating work based on found images and text. She has been awarded residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space and Artists Alliance in New York, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC, and the Contemporary Artists Center in Troy, NY. She is also the recipient of a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship and has exhibited her work in venues throughout the Northeast US, including Cuchifritos Gallery in New York, the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, SouthOrange, NJ, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY, and Proteus Gowanus, Rabbitholestudio and The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Louise Barry received a BA from Smith College in 2004 and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2006. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in Northwest Pennsylvania.

Apr 11, 2012

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