Join us for a gathering of conversation and inspiration with one of the works featured in our current exhibition, Reanimator. While sitting with Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s work Guardians Gate (Farfanicchio), we'll use dialogue and activities to learn about the artist's specific experiences and search for a deeper understanding of our shared ones. You can read about the artist’s work below:

“Working deftly across numerous artistic mediums, Barrois’ work breaks down, reframes, and reconfigures these transitory and at times archetypical moments in cinematic expression to pose critical questions around technique, motivation, and value. His practice engages the materiality of images as reproductions and the complexities of transitioning between two and three dimensions and between movement and stasis.

Barrois will consider the thin lines within painting that separate creation, conservation, and forgery in relation to cinema’s depictions of cons and misdirections. In doing so, he animates these disconnected details, objects, and elements and re-networks them to both stage and study their practical effects. A central reference is the game Three-card Monte, a persistent form of trickery and close-up street magic appearing throughout the exhibition which, for Barrois, parallels painting and art making in general as a kind of sleight-of-hand—the experience of magic being the point at which conviction overrides logic, an affect of performance that is present in both narrative fiction and static representation.”

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Inside the Art, Outside Ourselves is a 3-part Stove Works Exhibition-Specific series that invites you to spend time reflecting on a work from our current exhibition. Through guiding prompts, we encourage you to dig deeper into the work, into yourself, and to build a connection. 

A worksheet will be launched at each public workshop. After the fact, this worksheet can be used by you or with a group at your own pace. You are welcome to respond in whichever working practice makes the most sense to you, be it through drawing, writing, etc.