Tangents and Waves: The Art of David Barr and Diane Carr

October 3, 2008 to January 31, 2009

David Barr

Barr taught in the art department at Macomb Community College in Mount Clemens, Michigan, for 40 years. He also taught classes at nearby Wayne State University and Lawrence Technological University, and lectured at universities throughout the Midwest and in England.

He is the founder and artistic director of the Michigan Legacy Art Park in Thompsonville, Michigan, a wooded 30-acre nonprofit sculpture park where Michigan artists are invited to produce works that deal with the state's history.

Barr's artwork goes beyond Michigan. His Revolution I and Revolution II are in the Chrysler World Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and in the company's European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, respectively. The global Four Corners Project promotes world peace and understanding through art. His Michigan work includes Transcending, a 62-foot stainless steel sculpture in Detroit's city center; Soaring, in front of Flint's Bishop International Airport; Synergy, at the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City; Strata, at the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph; and Sunset Cube, on the grounds of the Meadowbrook Music Festival in Rochester. In Italy, his work Galileo is in the ancient town hall of Pisa. He recently completed and installed a monumental stone sculpture at the entrance of Michigan Tower on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

Nine documentary films have been made about Barr's work. His global projects are Arctic Arc in Wales, Alaska and Naukan, Russia; SunSweep on the U.S.-Canadian border at Campabello Island, New Brunswick; at Northwest Angle, Minnesota; and at Pointe Roberts, Washington; the Four Corners Project installed at Greenland, South Africa, New Guinea and Easter Island; and Global Gear at the two Chrysler headquarters.

David Barr lives in Novi, Michigan, in a home/studio he built himself surrounded by his four-acre sculpture garden.

David Barr interview (click image to play)

 Website: www.davidbarrart.com

Diane Carr

Carr taught painting, drawing and design at Macomb Community College in Mount Clemens. Also in Michigan, she was a painting instructor at Wayne State University in Detroit and a guest lecturer at Mott Community College in Flint, the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills. She was painting coordinator at the Ox Box Summer Workshop in Saugatuck, Michigan, and Visiting Artist at Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.

Carr's commissions include Skystone, an outdoor sculpture for the New Buffalo Welcome Center, Michigan, and Sky Crystals, four wall sculptures for a 15-foot-by-46-foot wall at One23 Restaurant in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Her work is in the collections of the Karmanos Cancer Institute in the Detroit Medical Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City and Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac.

Carr's work has been included in more than 35 group and six one-woman exhibits in Michigan and Canada.

For this exhibition, Carr produced a new body of work titled Sculptural Wall Gestures.

Diane Carr  interview (click image to play)

Website: dianecarrart.com