The Curator's Eye

Tiny Little Memories | Mindy Barker, Artist

selected by Gretchen Bailey, curator, Lark Gallery

Mindy Barker, Down Deep, 39 x 36 inches, photographs/acrylic

The compositions are entombed between sheets of glass, like a brain specimen upon a microscope slide. The random photographs embedded among the painted strata suggest vivid memories buried in a landfill of forgotten experience. After observing an exposed, eroding hillside near my painting studio, I imagined the multitudes of memories compressed within each layer of dirt. Like minerals captured within each layer, memories collect in our brains and are compacted together as one aggregated life experience. — Mindy Barker

Mindy Barker, Slice 6, 16 x 20 inches, photographs/acrylic.

"I really loved the work Mindy created for her show at Fulcrum, Slice, because it gave me the feeling I was looking at a cross-section - at pieces of her memory or her brain." —Gretchen Bailey

Photos courtesy of the artist.