Contact Barkley Hendricks
Education
B.F.A., M.F.A., Yale University.
In 1968, I was asked to make a statement concerning my art. At the time I quoted these words by the late Charles Mingus: "My music is as varied as my feelings are, or the world is, and one composition or one kind of composition expresses only part of the total world of my music." If you substitute "music" for "art" (painting, drawing, photography and assemblage) you will have an assessment of my art - then and now. Mr. Mingus goes on to say: "Each composition builds from the previous one and the succession of compositions create the statement I'm trying to make at the moment." - Barkley Hendricks
Professor of Studio Art
With Connecticut College: 1972-2010
Specialization:
- Portraiture
- The figure
- Landscape
Barkley Hendricks retired from teaching in 2010.
"Having a variety of media in my creative arsenal allows me various formats to explore and address the struggles and joys of being an artist. Although no pencil, paint, film, etc. will adequately describe certain feelings and desires, the variety makes it more compelling, thus more comprehensive and encompassing," states Professor Barkley Hendricks.
His skill base includes painting, with oil, acrylic, magna and watercolor; drawing (pencil, conte', graphite, ink); photography (black and white, color, mixed media, video, computer); and assemblage.
His creative focus is portraiture, the figure, and landscape, and a variety of other subjects that have caught his eye and mind over the last thirty years.
Having been a visiting artist at more than twenty various, grade schools, colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Professor Hendricks taught courses in representational painting and drawings; watercolor; foundation art, drawing; illustration; independent and individual study, and photography at Connecticut College.
His most recent exhibitions include:
- the Connecticut Contemporary Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 2007
- American Visions, Philips Exeter Academy Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH, 2007
- Who's on First: American Legacies Invitational ALVA Gallery, New London, CT, 2007
- REPRESENT: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY State Museum, Albany, NY, 2007
- Lag-Time Line-up, Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY, 2006
- Black Panther: Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2006
His exhibition tour, "Birth of the Cool," was at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February to November, 2008. Hendricks was at Duke as an artist-in-residence working with visual arts professors and students during his two-month stay on campus.
The exhibition was then at the Studio Museum in Harlem from Nov., 2008 through March 2009, Santa Monica Museum of Art in mid-2009, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from September-December, 2009, and culminated with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX in 2010.
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