CURRENT EXHIBITION

WE SHOW HERE, DECEMBER 1 – 24, 2016

Cara Barer  Elaine Duigenan  Odette England  Max de Esteban  Cornelia Hediger

Matthew-Robert Hughes  Doug Keyes  Sarah Lynch  Robert Moran

Jim Naughten  Helen Sear  Vojtech V. Slama  Frederic Weber

During the month of December, and leading up to the Christmas and New Year holidays, we are exhibiting a wonderfully diverse selection of contemporary photographs. Each of the artworks are small to medium-sized, framed and ready to be taken away. The perfect 'gift of art'. 

If you don't see what you're looking for on the gallery walls, let us know! We'll dive into the gallery inventory and help you to find the perfect artwork. 

The gallery has artworks ranging in values from $300 through to $68,000. So, whatever your budget, we're pretty certain we have you covered.

Each Saturday, we'll also be offering some special sales, on both artworks and photobooks. These offers will be limited to those specific days, and collectors will be alerted via the Gallery Newsletter. If you're not on our mailing list, you can SIGN UP HERE.

AIPAD 2016: CARA BARER

Americas, 2015

Series Title: Maps

Number of artworks at AIPAD: 1

Edition: 9 + 2AP

Size: 36" x 36"

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Year: 2015

The artist's creative process includes the transformation of outdated, abandoned and obsolete books into coiled, crumpled and sculptural objects. Following this labor-intensive reconfiguration, she photographs them and presents the final artworks as large-scale pigment prints – lush in color, highly detailed and impressive.

With this new series of photographs, Barer expands her attention to include cartography. Using maps as the primary source material, she paints, rips and tears them before binding them into a book form and resulting photograph. As with the status of books, she calls attention to the increasing obsolescence of traditional paper-based maps, in a world easily travelled with GPS.

Cara Barer (b. 1956) lives and works in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston, the University of Houston and the Galssell School of Art. Barer has been represented in numerous exhibitions across the US, and has had her work reproduced in several publications, including Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved (Chronicle Books, 2013). Collections holding her work include VISA, UCLA Special Collections, Danielle Steel, Bloomingdales, Lehigh University, Nordstrom’s Nationwide, Wells Fargo Bank and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others.

Additional editions available: 48"x48" & 24"x24" | 9+2AP each size

CURRENT EXHIBITION — PRESS

We are delighted to share some of the reviews and other press that our current exhibition has attracted. Click on the logos to read/view the reviews and features. 

Be sure to visit the gallery in person before February 27th, to fully appreciate this outstanding series of photographs. We should also mention that Shavasana has been incredibly popular with collectors, and is now close to selling out. 

Images L-R: Wildflowers 2, Shavasana

CARA BARER: NEW WORK

SAVE THE DATE: Artist Reception, January 9 6pm–8pm

Please join us on Saturday, January 9th at 6pm, when we kick-off the 2016 year with an exhibition of outstanding new work by gallery artist, Cara Barer.

Trekking, 2015 © Cara Barer

The artist's creative process includes the transformation of outdated, abandoned and obsolete books into coiled, crumpled and sculptural objects. Following this labor-intensive reconfiguration, she photographs them and present the final artworks as large-scale pigment prints – lush in color, highly detailed and impressive. 

Through this process of re-imagination, the books segue into a carefully considered commentary on their changing role of how society accesses and values knowledge in a technologically advanced context. Ultimately, Barer’s work questions the value of the book itself.

“I transform books into art by sculpting them, dyeing them and then through the medium of photography presenting them anew as objects of beauty. I am attempting to blur the line between objects, sculpture, and photography. The way we choose to research and find information is also in an evolution. I hope to raise questions about these changes, the ephemeral and fragile nature in which we now obtain knowledge, and the future of books.”—Cara Barer

With this new series of photographs, Barer expands her attention to include cartography. Using maps as the primary source material, she paints, rips and tears them before binding them into a book form and resulting photograph. As with the status of books, she calls attention to the increasing obsolescence of traditional paper-based maps, in a world easily travelled with GPS.

Cara Barer pictured in her studio © Cara Barer

Cara Barer (b. 1956) lives and works in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston, the University of Houston and the Galssell School of Art. Barer has been represented in numerous exhibitions across the US, and has had her work reproduced in several publications, including Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved (Chronicle Books, 2013). Collections holding her work include VISA, UCLA Special Collections, Danielle Steel, Bloomingdales, Lehigh University, Nordstrom’s Nationwide, Wells Fargo Bank and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others.

REPRESENTATION ANNOUNCEMENT

We are delighted to announce, that we are now representing the complete works of Cara Barer on the East Coast of the US. A selection of artworks by Cara Barer had previously been available through Klompching Gallery's Print Room.

Cara Barer photographs outdated, abandoned and obsolete books, but only after transforming them into exquisite sculptural objects. Coiled and crumpled, they extend beyond an exploration of form, segueing into a commentary on the changing role of books, their state of flux in an increasingly digitized world, and ultimately their potential for ephemerality. The brilliance of the photographs lies in their ability to speak on multiple levels—through an understated interplay of content, design and color.

Over the course of the past decade, she has developed a sustained fine art practice, producing an ongoing series of richly-colored and highly detailed photographs. Cara Barer is increasingly and appropriately recognized for the employment of impeccable craftsmanship, a singular vision and an intimate knowledge of her subject and materials, by which she blurs the line between object and photograph. 

Cara Barer (b.1956) lives and works in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston, the University of Houston and the Glassell School of Art. Barer has been represented in numerous exhibitions across the United States, and has had her work reproduced in several publications, including the recently released, Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved (Chronicle Books, 2013). Her artworks can be found in several private and public collections including Trump Hollywood, VISA, UCLA Special Collections, Danielle Steel, Bloomingdale's, Lehigh University, Nordstrom's Nationwide, Wells Fargo Bank and Museum of Fine Art, Houston.

SEE IT • LOVE IT • BUY IT

CARA BARER — CURRENTLY SHOWING AT KLOMPCHING
Artist Reception: Thursday, September 26, 6pm–8pm

We are delighted to present the first solo exhibition at Klompching Gallery, featuring the highly popular photographic artworks of Cara Barer. The artist photographs outdated, abandoned and obsolete books, but only after transforming them into sculptural objects of beauty.

Coiled and crumpled, they segue into a considered commentary on the changing role of libraries, society's relationship with how it accesses and values knowledge and, in a technology advance world, her work questions the future of the book itself.

The photographs are presented as large-scale pigment prints, rich in color and highly detailed, engendering both curiosity and delight. Her work can be firmly placed within the interdisciplinary—new and growing—genre of 'altered books', which started in the 1960's with A Monument: A Treated Victorian Novel by the British artist Tom Phillips.

Sunset, 2013 © Cara Barer

 Sunset, 2013 (detail) © Cara Barer

On show in the gallery are nine 36" x 36" photographs (other sizes/editions available), representing pieces from 2006 through to her most recent pieces made in 2013.