Michael Barnes Printmaker

Michael barnes is a master printmaker with a passion for the medium of lithography.

Michael barnes printmaker. My work generally revolves around perception and reinterpretation. Professor michael barnes from the school of art and design has been named a 2020 presidential research scholarship and artistry professor. Barnes is credited with building a printmaking program that is ranked in the top 20 in the country. Michael now resides in st.

The purpose of the fresno printmakers guild is to advance the art of fine printmaking through the study and practice of printmaking arts and to provide public education and public showings of the works of its members and others as part of our mission fpg strives to promote and support student artists through annual excellence awards to outstanding students of fcc csu fresno and other. His imagery often poses psychological dilemmas and create mysteries that challenge to viewer to interpret and perhaps solve. The images exist therefore as reactions to or reflections of the world and events that take place around him. Barnes work is part of numerous collections and has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in three commercial galleries.

Barnes is a world renowned printmaker. Michael barnes was selected as a recipient of the 2017. Barnes is a world renowned printmaker scholar and researcher whose work has played a critical role in niu s graduate printmaking program earning a ranking of 19 th in the nation by us news and world report out of 2700 leading institutions surveyed. During 2015 michael was artist in residency at the auckland print studio 6th international artist in residence programme were some of the lithographs on exhibition were printed with master printmaker john.

The recent body of graphic works by michael barnes depicts figures that wander or are stranded within the vacuum that has been created for them by the specific world in which they exist. The theme of his work addresses in part the absurdities of life and calls into question the historical evolution of so called civilization. I am very interested in experimental markmaking the most prominent technique i use in my work is blind semi blind contour drawing where the entire drawing is done in one line while looking at the paper as. Michael barnes northern illinois university professor in the school of art and design has been selected as a presidential research scholarship and artistry professor.

Charles illinois near chicago and is a professor of printmaking at northern illinois university in dekalb.