Statement

I work with relationships of color, both uneasy and harmonious, applying paint in washes and controlled drips to create grids and patterns. Then I draw using my vocabulary of shapes, adding layer upon layer, redefining as I go. The transparency and the opacity of the paint define form yet keep it ambiguous, changing focus. I’m interested in the ambiguity of the picture plane, where boundaries between shapes, foreground, background and surface marks become interchangeable. Over the years a grid has been an important part of my work. Starting out as random drips in earlier work, the grid has become a more purposeful background in newer work. The amorphous shapes defined by background and color become more defined by distinct outlines.

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Education:Art Students League of New YorkBFA, Rhode Island School of Design Manhattan Graphics Center (printmaking) Group Exhibitions:1997 Gallery Asyl, New York, NY2000 Painting in the Vernacular, The Bond Market Association, New York, NY2004 Fall Bloom, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY2004 After Bloom, World Art Gallery, New York, NY Presented by Broadway Gallery and NY Arts Magazine.2004 Institute for Medical Humanism, Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center Bennington, VT2005 Aramona Studio, Fashion district arts festival, New York, NY2005 Mod, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY2005 Made in the USA, Pickled Art Gallery, Beijing China2016 Song of Light, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, New York 2018-2019 Color. Colour, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, New York2022 Improvisions – Creative Expressions, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, New York 2025 Series & Progressions, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, New York Solo Exhibitions:1996 Space Case, PS 122, New York, NY2000 AramonaStudio Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY 2002 AramonaStudio Fine Art Gallery New York, NY 2004 CB Gallery 313, New York, NY Publications:Psychology Today, Finding Flow, August 1997 Selected Permanent Collections:The Bond Market Association, New York, NYMemorial Sloan-Kettering —The Sidney Kimmel Center, New York, NY Hospital for Special Surgeries, New York, NY SIFMA, Washington, D.C

Bari, a native New Yorker lives and works in New York City.