Starting Bid: $2800
Buy It Now: $6000
FMV: $4000

Proceeds Split: Artist 50% | Locust Projects 50%

Unframed

On view at Locust Projects April 13 - April 20 (For access on April 20 to the 2024 Spring Fling ticket is required PURCHASE HERE)

o Artist: Toby Barnes

o Title: Batik C'est Chic

o Year: 2023

o Medium: Batik Wax, Dye, Cotton and Synthetic Polymer

o Dimensions: 30x 40 inches

o Artist instagram: tobybarnesart

o Description: Toby Barnes is a Massachusetts based visual artist, working in painting, textiles, and digital art to explore symbolic and material intercultural communication. His work addresses ideas of hybridity and creolization, the making of the new in the interactions and tensions between cultural forms and practices. Inspired by contemporary and traditional Asian iconography, textiles, and spiritual practices, he is interested in how human beings animate their material world, relating new and old forms to create unimagined languages, forms, and futures. Barnes has long been inspired by the energizing mix of peoples and cultures in urban settings, as well as concerned by economic and environmental deterioration. In his work, he looks at how certain materials and forms can generate greater presence, reflection, and meditation to work against the accelerating and consumptive forces of the present.