Jared Bark
Paintings

For his first one-person show, Bark exhibited eleven works. Each was 4′ square and made from polyester resin and pigment between glass and masonite. While the paint was wet, Bark shot BBs at the work, causing the glass to crack and the underlying paint to move. Resulting variations in the thickness of the paint allowed the brown masonite underneath to modify the tint. In four works, patters of the constellations determined the placement of the shots. In other works, simple geometric forms provided the structure. He manually lengthened the cracks formed by the BBs to produce the desired pattern. In each painting, a single pale color was used.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.