About this Artwork

In this series, Michael Barringer wants to make deeply felt, poetic images, but bring them about by a formal system of repetitive, layered geometry.  They are based on existing things: another artist's iconic works, a poem, a scientific fact, a sacred object, and ancient cave paintings, to name a few. 

His guiding principles are to distill, to hone, and to focus.  As Brice Marden has said,  “Thinking and physicality become one.”