Week Three January 2021
After the inauguration January 2021, 45 x 43
Who writes history and for whom? 2020, 30 x 38
Late June 2020 with isolation, lockdown and so many stories. 30 x 42
On line wellness checks throughout 2020. 80 x 45
With the golden bough in hand one is able to pass safely through various dangers and obstacle. 80 x 45. 2020
Special Announcement AKA VALID ID, demands for voters' ID in a political circus atmosphere as election tensions increase, 2020, 80 x 45 as tall as James Comey
After George Floyd's murder in May, 2020, 32 x 58
Photographs of graffiti and the Berlin Wall, Germany, assembled in a digital print
Berlin Wall, my paintings assembled in digital print
Photographsin Mexico of textile factory turned into tourist mall assembled with my painted, Color Coded Memories.
Photographs in Reykjavik, Iceland assembled with my paintings, digital print
Buildings next to demolished buildings photographed in New Zealand assembled with my painting, digital print
Photographs of walls in Mexico digitally constructed with walls of a cave in New Zealand
Boy at the Beach, Maine, film photography 1980's
Father and daughter in front of Keith Haring mural, Lower East Side, NYC, film, 1980's
Children play in lot, Lower east Side, NYC, film, 1980's
Puerto Rican Day Parade off Fifth Ave., NYC 1980's
Man napping on the street during NYC parade, 1980's
HalloweenParade, West Village, NYC, film, 1980's
Warehouse with figures made in Vietnam, Tucson, AZ, film, 1980's
Unaltered Environmental Still Life Photograph, 2019
Unaltered Environmental Still Life Photograph, 2019
Unaltered Environmental Still Life Photograph, 2019
Ice, Apples, Glass Bowl, Coyotes in unaltered still life photograph, 2019
Pear and orchid in ice, still life photograph
After Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Radish in ice, still life photograph
After Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Found butterfly wings with shells and blue orchid in ice, macro photography
Joan Barker
Artist Statement
Resume
I have ideas I need to see. Through art, I move responses to current events, memories, emotions and dreams onto paper, canvas, cloth or cardboard. Substrates determine their physical form. Materials and techniques ignite the process. Marks appear and disappear; tumult. An abstraction or documentary photograph is never finished. Context is an ever-changing influence. Over time, each viewers’ unique perception completes the picture. A work of art may or may not hold profound truth but is always part of the search. I want my pictures to be more than me. I want to be ever changing like the art I make.