Thomas Barrow

American | 1938 - 2024

Thomas Barrow was an American photographer who was born in 1938. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Derek Eller Gallery have featured Thomas Barrow's work in the past.Thomas Barrow's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 2,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2003 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,000 USD for In the Garden (from The Automobile series) (complete with 10 photographs), sold at Heritage Auctions, Dallas in 2023. Thomas Barrow has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2024. The artist died in 2024.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Disjunctive Forms 2 ,1981

By Thomas Barrow

Capitalism Graphed II

By Thomas Barrow

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Cloud Flare, 1973 ,1973

By Thomas Barrow

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Recent Auction Results

PB at Play ,1971

By Thomas Barrow

-80%

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Technology Transfer ,1980

By Thomas Barrow

+227%

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Pink Stuff ,1971

By Thomas Barrow

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Past Exhibitions

Inaugural Group Exhibition

Derek Eller Gallery

New York | USA

Sep 06,2024 - Oct 19,2024

Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City | Missouri | USA

Oct 22,2021 - Apr 25,2022

Thomas Barrow: The Automobile

Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla

La Jolla | California | USA

Dec 10,2021 - Jan 22,2022

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Articles

ArtDaily 06/10/2024

The 1970s was a decade of uncertainty in the United States. Americans witnessed soaring inflation, energy crises, and the Watergate scandal, as well as protests about the Vietnam War...

ArtDaily 11/08/2024

Derek Eller Gallery announced the passing of Thomas Barrow (1938-2024). Barrow lived and worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and had solo exhibitions with the gallery in 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2020.

Hyperallergic 19/10/2022

A survey exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art looks at artists who took a revolutionary and subversive approach to the photographic image.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Like these earlier precedents, Barrow addresses the machine aesthetic in his work via his use of automotive paint and the incorporation of mass-produced materials... 鈥�
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Derek Eller Gallery

鈥� ..Barrow鈥檚 radical methodology would come to inform scores of later experimental photographic practice... 鈥�
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Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla

鈥� .. This pivotal body of work introduces Barrow鈥檚 unique three-dimensional photo-based objects comprised of paper, silicone caulk, staples, and spray paint... 鈥�
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Derek Eller Gallery

鈥� ..Abandoning traditional photography, in Barrow鈥檚 hands the camera becomes a liberating, experimental tool that incorporates mixed media, text, assemblage, photograms, and the altering and combining of negatives... 鈥�
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Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla

鈥� ..Fundamentally playful yet also cerebral, Barrow鈥檚 images take the viewer through a visual maze of references from art history and magazine and billboard advertising to cinema and contemporary culture... 鈥�
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Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla