Lunch on Fridays: Barry Underwood

Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. Each lecture features a variety of artists and designers from around the world, including CIA faculty and visiting artists. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza and beverages will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Barry Underwood lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He received an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work can be found in the collections of The Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH), The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH), Elton John Photography Collection (Atlanta, GA), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and the Rockefeller Family Art Collection (Petaluma, CA), among several others. His work has been reviewed in numerous publications, and several books including Crazy Photography (France), Land Art (France), and the San Francisco Exploratorium’s The Art of Tinkering, Color Magazine (CA), the London Times, Spectrum Magazine (England), Photo+ (Seoul), Picnic Magazine (Tel Aviv), and Vision Magazine (Beijing), as well as featured in Real Simple Magazine (United States). He has been awarded the Creative Workforce Fellowship through the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (OH), The Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts (OH), and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (OH). Barry has exhibited his work in a variety of contexts including historical and contemporary museums, university galleries, for-profit galleries, medical facilities, print and online publications. Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, in New York, New York; Johansson Projects Gallery in Oakland, California; and 1Point618 Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio represents his work. His photographs have been presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, Dorsky Gallery, New York, and The Suburban Gallery in Oak Park,, as well as many other venues. Barry has also been an artist-in-residence at The Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), I-Park Foundation (CT), Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Burlington City Arts, at Shelburne Farms (VT), The Center for Land Use Interpretation (UT), The MacDowell Colony (NH) and Teton Artlab (WY).

Above image: Gros Ventre, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist, Barry Underwood.

Website: http://www.barryunderwood.com/

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