Barry Nemett: Paintings Poems & Passages

Whether he is drawing an old man waiting for his wife or a boxer waiting between rounds; creating a six-inch painting or a sixty-foot assemblage; welding a metal abstraction; carving stone; constructing a room-size installation; or writing a poem . . . the foundation of Barry Nemetts work has always been built upon rhythm. The rhythm of life. There is a focus on the rhythms built into every work Barry Nemett produces just as there is a rhythm that flows from one of his works to another and between the various directions that his art has taken over the years. Likewise in his representational images there is an integrated rhythm of exchange between reality and imagination between what the artist directly observes and what he invents. In addition to essays poems and brief commentaries by well known painters poets and critics many of the 600+ full-color reproductions in this text are accompanied by the artists poems and written reflections. The book also includes excerpts from his recently published novel Crooked Tracks and from his textbook Images Objects & Ideas. Designed to accompany a traveling exhibition of Nemetts work this comprehensive survey weaves together the people places objects and stories of animate and inanimate subjects that he has been portraying through words and pictures for the past forty years in his attempt to visualize lifes unlikely rhythms and inevitable rhymes.