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End of A Wing
Jeremy Barnard
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Each time Barnard was granted access to the place, he could not be sure it would not be the last time-- so “there really wasn’t time to scrutinize, to set up a tripod.” He used 35mm Nikon equipment and used natural light for the black-and-white pieces, and used electronic flash for the color pieces. “There are no ‘special effects’ in these pictures, no manipulated images”, Barnard says: “The walls speak; I photographed what was there.”
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The Indian
Photograph by Jeremy Barnard
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Black Apparition
Photograph by Jeremy Barnard
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This comment by Helen Compton, manager of this site and for 6 years a staff manager of a state mental institution in Connecticut during the 80’s, before de-institutionalization:
“Most of the paintings on these walls cannot be compared with the art produced or promoted by Dubuffet, or with the visionary and apocalyptic expressions of the artists being exhibited today in the museums and galleries you will find on the “Related Sites, DVD, Film” page of this exhibit.
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Farm
Jeremy Barnard
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| “Some of the patient art almost appears to have been painted by formula, or 'by-the-numbers'-- and some may have been copied from a magazine. But others, we know from interviews with ex-patients, were painted directly on the walls, for the enjoyment of other patients, by self-taught artists who lived at Danvers Hospital for long durations. |
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“They are crude to be sure. Even so-- in 'FARM' for instance--why is the shadow on the roof so threatening? Why do the trees to the left of this innocent home stead appear to be transforming into monsters?...Un trained as this artist was, he was successful in relating emotion and idea. Or this may have been a first attempt by the inmate-artist to paint a scene as therapy. One can only wonder what experimentation, originality, and freedom may have created, had this patient been encouraged sooner. And meanwhile, how fortunate we are that Barnard captured this fragile scene, now probably gone forever.”
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Peace Sign
Jeremy Barnard
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Two-Tree Stream
Jeremy Barnard
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Some of these photographs are interesting also as documentation of the location and condition of the artifacts found, gathered, and transformed by Chulyk into the sculptures featured on the “Shape of Darkness” pages in this exhibit.
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All black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints produced individually and processed by hand. The color photographs were produced from transparency films printed on lifochrome Classic Deluxe papers. Each photo is one of a limited series of 25, and is signed and numbered.
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Danvers Patient ar  t: Two-Tree Stream |
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The Eagle Ate Uncle Sam
photograph by Jeremy Barnard
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The Owl
photograph by Jeremy Barnard
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CLICK ON ANY IMAGE on this page for the full selection of Barnard's Danver's photographs, and details of price and size...and PLEASE give each page TIME TO LOAD... there are over 1.000 images on this site.
SEE ALSO: more work by Jeremy Barnard: visit the ARTISTS page.
PLEASE RETURN for more history and images of Danvers as we expand this page and others.
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