For just $59.45 Sunday Afternoon, Looking for the Car: Framed Art Print by Kite, Barry Famous Art Signed by Barry Kite, Sunday Afternoon Looking For The Car, Hand Pulled Framed lithograph on Rives BFK paper Drawn by hand for each of the 15 plates from which the edition was pulled. "Sunday Afternoon, Looking for the Car" was printed at S2 Editions Ltd. Atelier in 2000 on an antique French Marinoni Voirin flat bed press. After receiving his B.F.A. in film from UCLA, Chicago-born Barry Kite spent the next five years traveling overseas. Returning to the San Francisco Bay area, he wrote and performed his own style of surreal poetry in local coffee houses. Renewing his interest in collage, he combined photographic and hand-coloring techniques to create the foundation of his current work. The exclusive use and Award winning By Barry Kite of found imagery is a natural extension of found poetry and the basis for what he considers his visual poems. Barry Kite's style of social and political parody via the positioning of art historical and contemporary media imagery has won him several competition awards and placed his work in numerous private and corporate collections. Under his studio name,Aberrant Art, Barry Kite's work can be found on an extensive line of note cards and greeting cards. Several calendars and three books of his work have been published by Pomegranate Communications, Portland, Oregon. ARTIST STATEMENT My work is based on found iconographic imagery from painting, photography and popular media initially via discarded books and magazines but of late: the internet. This imagery is deconstructed, then re-composed from different sources as parody with the important blending of and interpretive tension of word (via title) and image. The technique is based on using imagery as language to build context as individual words are combined to create ideas. Uncommon juxtapositions and themes are sought to provoke thought and discussion. The less common, the merrier...
