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View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Barry W. ScharfAbout Barry W. Scharf : Barry is a master painter, sculptor, photographer and professor of art with a history of creating award-winning art and exhibition installations from the late 60’s to present. He has been making art for over 55 years with over 25 public and one-man shows at museums and galleries internationally.
Currently his sculpture is installed as part of Art Around the Corner Exhibitions in the lobby of the Intermountain Medical Center, 2022 and he has been appointed as a member of the St George Art Commission.
In December 2021 10 sculptures were shown at the St George Art Museum.
In 2019-20 his career retrospective at the Dixie State Sears Museum Gallery ran for three months. His photography was included at the International Exposure Awards 2015 held at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In 2016 his sculpture was chosen for the prestigious Bellwether Biennial Sculpture Exhibition in Bellevue Wa.
Barry Scharf is an artist whose work is centered in expressing the spiritual within nature and life. He paints his visions through both abstract imagery and a poetic narrative reality. In this way the viewer is encouraged to experience feelings as visual imagery, sound as color and prayer as composition.
ORGANIZATION:
BWS Art STUDIO
NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Photographer-artist Media, graphic, printing, culture, design
EDUCATION:
2001-03-05 Seminars at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Conferences (C.E.U.’s)
1973-75 Master of Fine Arts degree, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. (Scholarship)
Hancock Park Art Scholarship for excellence in painting and sculpture.
1969-73 Bachelor of Fine Arts, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C. Painting and Sculpture.
EXPERIENCE:
•Appointed to the board of St George, Utah Arts Commission 2021.
•Barry Scharf is a master painter, sculptor, digital photographic artist educator and writer with a history of creating award-winning art including exhibition experience from the late 60’s to present.
•In November of 2019 to January of 2020 his work was honored with a career retrospective at the Dixie State Museum Gallery in St George Utah. This one-man exhibition spanned over 50 years of his artworks.
•2015 his photo work was included as part of the International Exposure Awards shown in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
•While teaching at the Art Institute of Seattle he became a semifinalist in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards for both 2011 and 12 in the “Innovation in Traditional Media in Education”.
•His sculpture was selected for inclusion in the 2006 and 2016 Bellevue International Invitational Biennials. More notable, in
•Barry is a “Guru Award” finalist winner in artistic category of “Photoshop Digital Art” at three conferences (2001-2003-2005) hosted by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. In 2007-08, he was part of the Adobe team that helped to develop and beta test the new brush engine and other improvements to Photoshop CS4.
•Barry has also been working with and teaching Photoshop for over 16 years as an instructor of advanced digital theory, 2D design, digital painting, and digital photo manipulation during his tenure at the Art Institute of Seattle, 1996-2012. As the senior lecturer at SIGGRAPH 07, San Diego, he lectured and demonstrated Photoshop skills to recruit students for the AIS campus.
•While teaching traditionally in the classroom he also researched, designed and facilitated a class for digital photography students on a photo-teaching tour of Italy… traveling from Milan to Venice, through the major cities and hill towns south to Siena and through many Tuscan villages finely ending in Rome, 2009.
•In 2008, his photography won first place in the Full Circle International Photography Competition from the UK.
•Barry has had over 22 one-person and group shows at galleries and museums. His work was part of the prestigious by invitation only 1994 Northwest Artists Exhibition at the Seattle Convention Center.
•In 1998, by the invitation of the Mayor, his artworks where placed on exhibition for one year, at the Kirkland, Washington City Hall.
•Selected by the King Arts Commission in Seattle as sustaining support evaluator to review the local Museums of Art, art centers and other funded cultural projects. He reported to the commission on implementation of funds with recommendations for grant continuance or termination.
•Before living in the Northwest, Barry lived and worked in Los Angeles (1975-1993) there he developed a reputation for leading edge paintings and sculptures. A highly focused young artist, he was enmeshed in the L.A. art scene and successful in his fine art career. His work won awards, was collected and reviewed by museums, and art critics. He was recognized by the LACMA curator as a stylistic leader for his use of illusion drop-shadow abstractions.
•He was a founding director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), a C.E.T.A. project that used artists for community renewal. The project was acclaim as a significant influence in the revitalization of L.A.s’ inner city. This project created low-rent studios that drew artists into unoccupied buildings. Soon to be followed by architects and other professional people into the old section of the city, thus creating revitalization that is still part of the LA scene. Over the years, LACE has become one of the most successful art projects in L. A. history.
•Barry’s paintings and sculptures have been on Commercial TV and in movies by Warner Brothers Studios and for many years in the 1970’s he was also freelance artist for CBS.
PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
2019Solo exhibition Career Retrospective at Dixie State Museum Gallery, St George Ut
2010 One man exhibition Portfolio Gallery AIS Seattle, WA
1999 Nelson Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland WA
1998 One man Show Kirkland City Hall, WA
The Greenpeace Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 “Endangered Species Series” The Brand Library Galleries, Glendale, CA
1989 La Nicola, Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles
1988 Ivey Gallery, La Brea Ave., Los Angeles
Holly Street Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Baker Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
1987 Marble Works Gallery, Beverly Hills & North Hollywood, CA
D.O.R. Gallery, Venice, CA
Aqua Blue Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Trey Ligon Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1982One-man show “The Figure” Rhoda S. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1977 Gallery +, Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
Main Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
1974 Devons Gallery, Hollywood, Florida
1969 Reflector Gallery, Greenville, N.C.
MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
Selected Group exhibitions
2022Zion Bank Invitational Group Show, St George Utah
2022Group Artists Invitation, DSU Sears Art Museum, St George UT
2021Group Show, St George Fine Art Museum (sculptures)UT
2020The Eccles Museum Invitational Exhibition, St George UT
2015The Exposure Awards, New York City, and the Louvre Museum Paris France
2014Swiss Art Gate U. A. E. Dubai | United Arab Emirates
2013Ryan James Gallery, Bellevue, WA
2006-16 City of Bellevue Sculpture exhibition, Bellevue WA
1996-2011 Yearly Group exhibits, Burnley Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Kirkland City Hall, Kirkland, WA.
Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA
1995 Artists’ Cooperative, Langley, Whidbey Island, WA
Alternative Visions, Moss Bay Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Flower & Garden Show, Seattle Convention Center, WA
1994-5 Waterworks Gallery San Juan Island, WA
Quantum, San Jose, CA
Ron Segal Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993“State of the Art 93,” Invitational National Exhibition, Boston, Ma
1992"Woodworking 92" Brea Gallery, City Civic Center, La Brea, CA
1991Harbor Art Alliance, Pacifica Place, San Pedro, CA
International Invitational, “Project Angel Art” The AIDS Project, Ace Gallery, L.A.
1989Ojai Arts Center, Ojai, CA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
1987Showcase West Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Otis Parsons School of Art, Main Gallery, Los Angeles
1980Eros IV International Invitational, “The Nude” Laguna Beach, CA
The Experience Center Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Four exhibitions at L.A.C.E. Gallery & The Exploratorium Gallery, Los Angeles
1977Two-person show, Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles
EVENTS:
Appointed to the board of St George, Utah Arts Commission 2021.
AWARDS:
2015 his photo work was included as part of the International Exposure Awards shown in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
•While teaching at the Art Institute of Seattle he became a semifinalist in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards for both 2011 and 12 in the “Innovation in Traditional Media in Education”.
•His sculpture was selected for inclusion in the 2006 and 2016 Bellevue International Invitational Biennials. More notable, in
•Barry is a “Guru Award” finalist winner in artistic category of “Photoshop Digital Art” at three conferences (2001-2003-2005) hosted by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. In 2007-08, he was part of the Adobe team that helped to develop and beta test the new brush engine and other improvements to Photoshop CS4.
PRESS APPEARANCES:
2019-2020Who’s Who in America
2012-2015Writer and regular contributor to Visual Language Magazine,
Penning Articles and opinions on the creative process in the visual Arts.
2006 -2016 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition Catalogue, # 13, (TV interview)
2001 Photoshop-user Magazine, Guru Award winners
1996 The Seattle Times, Technology section, digital art, Sunday March 10, 1996
1990 “Hot Air” North Light Publishers, PG 168.
An international book publication of practicing professional airbrush artists and
Illustrators from around the world.
1989 The Artists Book, NYC, NY
California Art Review, CA American Ref., Chicago, ILL
Exhibition review, Los Angeles Times,
1988 “Expressive Drawing,” Joseph Mugnaini, Davis Publications, pp 185 & 212.
1979 The Freelance Art Monthly, August 1979 (Illustrations)
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
none
BOOKS:
In a Creative Life, By Barry W. Scharf
currently in per-publishing editing stage.
ACCOLADES:
See awards section
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English
COMPUTER LITERACY:
I am computer literate
COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
NAPP Photoshop Seminar taught and presented Photoshop for student recruitment fpr the Art Institute
SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES::
see above
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS:
none at this time
COLLECTIONS:
to many to state here
JURY MEMBERSHIPS:
none
HOBBIES:
"making fine art", "painting", "sculpture", "photography"
CLIENTELE:
Private
WEB SITE:
www.barrywscharf.squarespace.com
PORTFOLIO URL:
www.barrywscharf.squarespace.com
REGISTRATION DATE:
2022-09-29 18:28:00
COUNTRY/REGION:
United States Minor Outlying Islands
ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional
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