The Artist
Robert Baras’ painterly vocabulary of alphabetic glyphs, totems, windy trees, forests, birds, horses, flowers, dancers and other figures are subjects he revisited throughout his artistic career. An aspect of Baras’ studio practice was to take polaroid photos of his paintings in process. When he finished with a painting, these photos would be archived in a box to be revisited for passages and moments that might inspire a new work. These boxes of polaroids found their way to his Westport, CT basement where they became submerged in a flood from hurricane Sandy in 2012.
As Baras began to tease apart these photographs, he saw that the emulsions had lifted and moved from one photo to another, yielding an alchemy of serendipitous juxtapositions and fusions of his painted images. These magically unique ‘collages’, mysterious, intimate, elusive, poetic, playful, rich in color and color relationships were to become the inspiration for an entirely new way of seeing and making art.
A selection of these Chance Encounters, reproduced as archival pigment prints on fine art paper, will complement and integrate with any design concept for all environments from a personal art collection to a corporate office.
For more information about the artist Robert Baras, please go to www.robertbaraspaintings.com