Robert Barry
Robert Barry
Robert Barryis an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."...
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth9 March 1936
museums trying firsts
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
beach cities wife
I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.
airplane black-and-white color
I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything that - sometimes I secretly take secret photos, shoot video of people on the plane if it's not too crowded. I don't know, whatever comes up.
photography use stills
I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.
thinking interesting trying
I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
sleep night house
I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
years add down-and
I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films from them all the time. If I hear about something that I don't know, that I haven't seen, forgot about, I immediately jot it down and add it to my Netflix list or if there's a film that's available that I haven't seen for many years, I get that.
thinking way watches
I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
nice air america
I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to "Air America," down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
black-and-white white color
I like contrasting between black and white and color.
problem ifs
Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
color shapes size
Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
masters relation
I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.
space darkness important
The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.