Craig Skibs Barker has a Sight For Sore Eyes
Friday October 23, 2009
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Craig “Skibs” Barker likes legs. This Southern Californian artist grew up during the early ‘80s in the midst of both the punk rock and surfing culture explosions. These influences soon inspired his own fine art, which will be on display in a show called Sight for Sore Eyes at Thinkspace Gallery as part of their Fresh Faces wall.



With a healthy dose of punk flyers, album covers, and surfing magazines buzzing through his head as a youth, Barker began making flyers and t-shirts for his friends and his own punk bands. Fast-forward to today: Barker’s most recent paintings infuse his long-standing love for painting and rendering the human female figure with his punk-fueled graphic design.

Mixing different approaches, techniques, and mediums, he creates a sense of memory, personal history, and appreciation for the female form. Combining elements of pop culture, literary censorship, and a positive mental attitude, he creates layered scenes of voyeuristic mischief. Barker’s work explores the junctions between past and present, memory and imagination, fantasy and reality, while creating a dialog between image and viewer.

Barker’s work has shown around Southern California in such galleries as Ghetto Gloss, The Hive Gallery, C.A.V.E. Gallery, Koo’s Art Center, J. Flynn Gallery and the bi-monthly Cannibal Flower event. Barker’s work was also recently profiled at the Beyond Eden New Contemporary Art Fair in Los Angeles.

Craig “Skibs” Barker's Sight For Sore Eyes opens at Thinkspace on November 6th, 2009. More info at www.thinkspacegallery.com

More on the artist at his website: www.skibsart.com

 

 

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