DOESRELIGIONKILL?

concept engineer: ronaldLOPEZ 

DRK in Istanbul

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the interactive dialogue wall

billBARMINSKI     

katrinaERICKSON     

noahHAYTIN

zaraKRIEGSTEIN     

marquisLEWIS     

christineMORLA

amitisMOTEVALLI     

burtPAYNE     

raymondPETTIBON

ramseyROBINSON     

melissaTROCHEZ     

samiraYAMIN               

In 1985 Barminski moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a cartoonist.  As things go however, he picked up a brush and started painting instead.  Over the course of the next five years he taught himself how to paint and gained professional representation in 1990 at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica and at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in NYC. 

“The advertising-derived images that Barminski incorporates into his paintings are meant to evoke postwar America.  Like filmmaker David Lynch and others, Barminski is interested in the ominously surreal side of the good life.” Tobey Crockett, Art in America

The themes and style of his work critique mass media and consumer culture.  His exhibitions usually contain installation elements showcasing a video work produced for each show.  His richly textured paintings have been reviewed in numerous publications such as FlashArt, Art in America, Art News, Visions Art Quarterly, New American Painters and the Los Angeles Weekly to name a few.