Creator

Robbie Barber

Description

My travels throughout rural America have attracted me to the strong visual character of this country's vernacular architecture. Vintage lapboard houses, mobile homes, tobacco barns and agrarian-related structures have become regional icons that ultimately tell the stories of the inhabitants or builders. This implied history interests me deeply. I often fuse recognizable forms to create hybrid objects of fantasy, the results of which are often humorous, ironic or visually poetic in nature. In keeping with this, "Southern Comfort" depicts a mobile home that is transformed into a baby carriage.

welded steel, paint, found objects 108" x 60" x 108"

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Creation Date

2011

Keywords

sculpture, installation, exhibition

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