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Articles about Barnaby Furnas

Making Art a Day Job

By Hilarie Sheets

A couple of months before receiving his MFA from Columbia in the spring of 2000, Barnaby Furnas ordered a new computer. Like most young painters, he had thought carefully about how best to support himself when he graduated, and he had decided on Web design for a living. But then one of his professors told the collector Estelle Schwartz about him. Schwartz came to his studio, liked his paintings well enough to buy several off the wall, and sent reproductions to a Chelsea art dealer, who came over the following day and signed up Furnas on the spot. Furnas canceled the computer order and began working toward his first solo show, at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, where a second exhibition of his kicked off the fall 2003 season.
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Barnaby Furnas

By John Reed

Guns blazing, Barnaby Furnas returns for his second solo show at Marianne Boesky, offering, in three dozen works on paper, a spectacle of guts, glory, and an occasional orgy.

In colors that have become archetypes in today's print media, Furnas obsesses (and rightfully so) on issues of political paranoia, personal excess, and a resolute, national impulse to self-destruct. Shady operatives lurk in the tall reeds; they twirl their guns. Bacchanals play out on the world stage; we can hardly differentiate the orgy from the bloodbath. Battle scenes are extravaganzas of Homeric proportions; to die the good death is to be "Blown To Bits." Vanity and violence are the sexual currency of our lives. Rock concerts are convocations of blood cults. We shadowbox, shirtless, on the beach. Read the entire article Source: (www.artcritical.com)

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