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Jerry Ross Barrish (born 23 July 1939) is a San Francisco artist known for his filmmaking and assemblage sculptures.
Early life[edit]
Barrish was born in 1939 in San Francisco, California, growing up in the Sunset district. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School, Barrish joined the Army and was stationed in Worms, Germany, for a total of three years. He returned home in 1961 and was invited by his father, a boxer from Chicago, to a release party for Mickey Cohen (the only person to ever be bailed out Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary). After being seated next to a bail bondsman, Abe Phillips, Barrish found himself in attorney Melvin Belli's office the very next day, where he signed his bond agent's papers.[1] He would go on to post bail for protestors jailed during many now-iconic social movements including 1964's Auto Row Protests, Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964-65, the San Francisco State University Strike (Third World Liberation Front Strikes) of 1968-69, 1969's People's Park Protest, and the Occupation of Alcatraz of 1969. This earned him the slogan, "Don't perish in jail, Call Barrish for bail!"
Work[edit]
Filmmaking[edit]
Upon learning his GI Bill eligibility was due to expire, he applied as a sculptor to the San Francisco Art Institute.[2] He studied with CB (Charles Betram) Johnson as an apprentice sculptor. Barrish switched his major to film and studied with James Broughton and George Kuchar, receiving his BFA in 1974 and his MFA in 1976. He placed a copy of his very first feature-length film, Dan’s Motel (1981)[3], on the desk of Tom Luddy, director of the Telluride Film Festival. A few days later, Luddy called Barrish and told him to send the film to New Directors, New Films at Lincoln Center. The next film he wrote and directed was Recent Sorrows (1984)[4] gained him access to the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) program in 1986, which earned him a six-month artist’s residency in Berlin.[5] Upon his return to the United States, he shot his final film Shuttlecock (1989)[6], which he'd written during this residency.
In Berlin, Barrish renewed his acquaintance with New German Cinema icon Wim Wenders (who he'd first met at 1982 Denver International Film Festival) and was cast in the role of the American film director in Wenders’ Palme d'Or winning Wings of Desire (1987). Barrish also acted in Until the End of the World (1991), also directed by Wenders, Rembrandt Laughing (1991), written and directed by Jon Jost, and I Married a Heathen (1974) directed by George Kuchar. He is the star of a documentary, Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Barrish (2014) directed by William Farley which details his practice[7] and life story.[8]
Assemblage[edit]
By chance, it was in Pacifica, during a routine stroll along the plastic-ridden beach in front of his home, that a solitary new practice catalyzed for Barrish: assemblage. By the 1980s and 90s, Barrish was joining an art form rich with practitioners identified by their use of materials and a certain sense of humor and irony that defined their work. But Barrish is clear on an important distinction within the art of assemblage. Jerry Barrish creates his own objects out of discarded plastic. In this sense Barrish is a sculptor, and as such he is quite distinct within the field of assemblage.
Barrish takes the practice one step further by bending, cutting, and painting plastic until it no longer resembles its original form, leaving something more sculptural. Precisely through this intervention, Barrish allows for the nuance and gesture that define and universalize his work. Imbued within every work are emotions and expressions he has observed over the course of his life, one in which a varied and immediate career overlapped a volatile and meteoric epoch in history.
Barrish also serves as artistic director of Sanchez Art Center, a community non-profit art center located in Pacifica, California. Since 2004, Barrish has coordinated many juried exhibitions, including The Left Coast Annual and 50/50 and works with local artists and curators on yearly exhibitions.
Barrish closed his bond business in 2013. He now works daily on his sculpture practice in his Mission-based studio.
Permanent collections[edit]
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California[9]
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose California
Di Rosa, Napa, California
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California[10]
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
South Dakota Museum of Art, Brookings, South Dakota[11]
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California
Public art commission[edit]
Bayview Horn, 2015 is located The Shipyard SF at Hunters Point, commissioned by Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (successor to San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.)[12]
Selected Solo Sculpture Exhibitions[13][edit]
2023 M. Stark Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California,“Jerry Ross Barrish: Protagonist”
2016 Transmission Gallery, Oakland, California,“Plastic Man”
2016 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, California, "Nuts & Chews”
2015 Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California, “Plastic Man”
2015 Mendocino Art Center, Nichols Gallery, Mendocino, California, “Jerry Ross Barrish”
2014 South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota, "Cast & Crew," (traveling)
2014 Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, "Cast & Crew," (traveling
2007 Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, Germany, “Ein Amerikaner in Schwerin”[14]
2003 Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California, “Homage to Art & Music”
2002 Sierra College, “About the Ark,” Rocklin, California, “About the Ark,”
2002 South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota, “Dames” (traveling)
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, "Dames"
Selected Group Sculpture Exhibitions[edit]
2023 The Randall Museum, San Francisco, California, “Inclusive Views”
2022 de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, "Pictures of People"
2020 South Dakota Art Museum, "50 Works for 50 Years: Collections Retrospective"
2019 SFMOMA Artists Gallery San Francisco, California, "Honoring America's Veterans at TPG Global"
2019 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, Alumni Show, "ECHOES, From Here to There"
2017 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, "California Sculpture Slam Biennial Exhibition"
2011 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, Weborg Gallery, “New Acquisitions”
2009 Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California, “Assemblage, Collage & Construction”
2008 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, “30th Anniversary Exhibition”
2005 Oakland Museum of California at City Center, “Shaping Possibility: Pacific Rim Invitational”
2004 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, “Furniture as Art”
2002 San Jose Art Museum, “Is the Medium the Message? Contemporary Art from Permanent Collection”
2000 University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, “The New Millennium Readymade, Even”
1999 University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, “Fragments of the World, From Collage to Readymade”
1997- 1998 Oakland Museum of California,"Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art Design" (traveling)
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California
McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Independent Feature Films[edit]
Shuttlecock (1989) - World Premiere, Berlin International Film Festival, Forum, Berlin,Germany
Recent Sorrows (1984) - World Premiere, San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco, California
Dan's Motel (1981) - World Premiere, New Directors/New Films, Lincoln Center, New York City, New York
Retrospective Film Exhibitions[edit]
2015 Hof International Film Festival, Hof, Bavaria, Germany
2015 Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, California
2007 Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, Germany
2004 Hof International Film Festival, Hof, Bavaria, Germany
2003 Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz, Portugal
2002 South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
1998 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
1991 The Museum of Modern Art, Cineprobe, New York City, New York
1990 Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, California
1986 DAAD, Arsenal, Berlin, West Germany
1986 Metropolis, Hamburg, West Germany
1986 German Film Museum, Frankfurt, West Germany
1979 The Cinematheque, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Selected Film Festivals & Releases[edit]
1998 Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
1992 Third Channel-TV, Munich, Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany
1991 Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, "Film Arts Foundation at Fifteen," New York, NY
1990 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
Houston International Film Festival, Houston, Texas
Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, California
1989 Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, West Germany
Florence Film Festival, Florence, Italy
Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, California
Uppsala Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
Göttingen Film Festival, Göttingen, West Germany
1985 Munich International Film Festival, Munich, West Germany
American Independent Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
Antwerp International Film Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
1984 Hof International Film Festival, Hof, West Germany
San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco
1983 "Film in the Cities," Minneapolis, Minnesota
Festival International de Cinema, Figueria da Foz, Portugal
Lisbon Cinematheque, Lisbon, Portugal
Florence Film Festival, Florence, Italy
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
Festival International du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada
1982 The Museum of Modern Art, "New Directors/New Films," New York City
Denver International Film Festival, Denver, Colorado
Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, California
Cinematheque, Athens, Greece
Hof International Film Festival, Hof, West Germany
1979 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Film Awards & Residency[edit]
1990 Foreign Critics' Choice, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
1989 Jury's Choice, Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, California
1986 DAAD Residency (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), Berlin, Germany
1976 Director's Choice, Sinking Creek Film Celebration, North Carolina
1976 Juror's Award, San Francisco Art Institute Student Exhibition, San Francisco
References[edit]
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- ^ "Jerry Ross Barrish: Take Two". MAH. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ "Dan's Motel (1982)". www.tcm.com. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
- ^ "TWENTY-THIRD SEASON OF CINEPROBE BEGINS" (PDF).
- ^ Workman, Bill (1997-03-14). "Picking Up Where Litterers Leave Off". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ Shuttlecock (1989), retrieved 2023-05-03
- ^ Addiego, Walter (2015-08-20). "Unique life as bail bondsman to the left — and artist". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish, retrieved 2023-05-03
- ^ Linhares, Philipp (2009). Jerry Ross Barrish: Bronze. San Francisco, California: Sculpturesite Gallery.
- ^ Philip E. Linhares, Susan Hillhouse, Paul Figueroa (2008). Jerry Ross Barrish : Assemblage / Found Objects. San Francisco, California: Dirt Bag Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Martin, Fred (2002). Dames: Assemblage / Found Objects, Jerry Ross Barrish, January 21, 2002 - June 24, 2002. South Dakota Art Museum.
- ^ "Jerry Barrish - The Bayview Horn | Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure". sfocii.org. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ "International Sculpture Center". sculpture.org. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
- ^ Marianne Wagner-Simon, Peter Selz, John K. Grande (2007). Jerry Ross Barrish : Skulpturen. Schlewig-Holstein-Haus Schwerin.
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