Artist and writer Barbara Confino’s new series, WalkAbout: the World as Image, Imagination, and Idea is a leisurely inquiry into the interplay between the real and the fantastic, each WalkAbout taking place at the crossroads of the mind and the world at large.
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Other WalkAbouts by Barbara Confino can be found at:
New York WalkAbout: VideoTrance
A Non-Rational WalkAbout: The Graphic Poem
Imaginary WalkAbout: The Birth of the Gods Part I
Wyoming WalkAbout -Convulsive Beauty
New York WalkAbout – 34th-street Serenade
New York WalkAbout – Working Class Bars
New York WalkAbout – City of Trash
Scientific WalkAbout – Report From the Big Bang
Times Square WalkAbout – The Adoration of the Faithful
Brooklyn WalkAbout – The Back Yards of Bay Ridge
Paris WalkAbout – The Painter Assadour
The Good Life in Berlin
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Text and images by Barbara Confino in New York; Friday, Feb. 28, 2014
Barbara Confino is an artist and writer based in New York City. Her work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum and is housed in such collections as the British Museum Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Staatsbibliothek of Berlin. She is Associate Editor of the New York Photo Review, where she reviews the current photography scene. For two years she was Artist-In-Residence at New York’s Polytechnic University and she teaches at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology. Her installation, the Genetic Wars, can be seen at www.thegeneticwars.com. Further writings of Barbara Confino can be found at perceptionsinpassing.com
