Barnstormers
From Provisions
About the Artists
"THE BARNSTORMERS are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances. The group formed in 1999 after a pilgrimage to the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina. During the trip, twenty-five artists painted dozens of barns, tractor-trailers, shacks and farm equipment. Consequently, the tiny tobacco farming community became the unlikely Mecca for the urban collective. To this day, the Barnstormers continue to interpret and communicate the visual, cultural, and spiritual awakenings inspired by their trips to the south.
The Barnstormers continue to experiment and collaborate, both domestically and internationally, with yearly returns to Cameron to paint new murals.
The Barnstormers are:
Chulo, Daikon, David Ellis, Doze Green, Maya Hayuk, Kenji Hirata, Mike Houston, Che Jen, Kami, KR, Alex Lebedev, Madsaki, Martin Mazorra, Christian Mendoza, Mike Ming, Blust One, West One, Jose Parla, Stephen Powers, Rostarr, Sasu, Yuri Shimojo, South, Swoon, Chuck Webster, Kiku Yamaguchi, and documentarians Joey Garfield, Miyuki Hirai, and Gion Yukio"
–from Barnstormers' website
"The music serves as an appropriately energized soundtrack for the films, each of which is a time-lapse document of a different painting project. In some cases, the Barnstormers are filmed from above as they paint on large floor canvases. Other films document large wall paintings as group members move about on scaffolds. One member typically covers a surface with images, only to have it immediately painted over and replaced by another Barnstormer's design, which is then obliterated and replaced in kind, until the time given for that particular project ends."
–from "Painters, Cameras, Action...", Tom Patterson, Relish Journal, June 24, 2006
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