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| Working from a garage-like studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Gregory Barsamian creates kinetic sculpture from pieces of fabric, urethane foam, motors, strobe lights, newspapers, and sculpted body parts. He first sketches his ideas on a story board, makes a plaster mold, and then casts them in foam rubber.
He was raised in Skokie, Illinois, where he worked with his father on fix-up projects such as repairing old cars. He studied philosophy at the University of Wisconsin and supported himself by working in a bicycle shop and fixing cars. He also took up glass blowing, and became fascinated with strobe lights--all which he incorporates into his sculpture.
In 1983, he moved to New York and bought two buildings which he remodeled. One serves as the home he shares with sculptor Mary Ziegler, and the other is his studio. One of his first exhibitions was at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, which commissioned his 1996 animated sculpture "Feral Front."
He claims he is not influenced by other artists but gets his ideas primarily from technical manuals and catalogues. |
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