Michael Barnard works in a variety of media.  He has written numerous essays, short stories, and several volumes of poetry as well as several feature film scripts including “The Outermost House” and  “The Transfiguration of Fast Eddie Rose”.  Aside from his formal art training (BFA, MFA), Barnard studied photography with his father, John Barnard.  He took advanced art classes for high school students at the San Francisco Art Institute. After receiving his BFA & MFA degrees (CCAC and Ft. Wright College), Barnard taught for one year at Ft. Wright College in Spokane, WA. He then moved to New York City where he continued painting and showed his experimental films at venues in the New York area and across the USA. 

 

Barnard moved to Los Angeles 1978 where he started Lightning Bolt PIX, a film production company in Santa Monica, and began to work on a wide variety of film and television projects. He continued his development as a writer, musician, and visual artist. He became a resident artist at the 18^th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica) in 1989.

 

Those experiences have led inevitably to his photographic series  – “Photofields” – unique works that consist of traditionally taken and printed photographs mounted in a montage format and presented in a refreshing, evocative way.  His painting has evolved into a series of “Field” objects which are made with layers of glass, gold leaf, scratchboard, paint, string and sometimes photographs.  These artworks are included in collections across the United States.

 

 

 

Education- BFA – California College of Arts and Crafts – 1967

MFA – Ft. Wright College -1969

Instructor (Painting/Drawing) – Ft. Wright College – 1970

 

Visiting Artist – University of Kentucky – Lexington  -1970

  University of British Columbia – Victoria – 1970

  Cornell University (Art and Film Depts.) – Ithaca, NY – 1999

 

One-Man Shows - Juniper Tree Gallery – Spokane Washington 1970

Millennium – New York City 1970

Phoenix Gallery – Santa Monica 1994

18^th Street Arts Complex – Santa Monica 1998

ArtSpace – Santa Monica 2001

Platform 9 Gallery – Santa Monica 2001 

Highways Gallery – Santa Monica 2002

University of Nevada-Las Vegas 2003

12-Piece Permanent Installation for the City of Fontana (CA) Library

R Street Gallery, Washington D.C. -2008

Numerous group shows 1970-2004

 

Publications- The Well – ( journal published by Thomas Merton) – poetry 1968

Sponge – a multimedia journal – poetry – Oakland, Ca 1967

Nine Rainbow Field – CD of original guitar music – 1997

Wisdom From The East – Inclusion in a collection of essays.

                                     Forward by The Dalai Lama, Edited by Susan Suntree – 2002

Selected

Feature Films

and

Documentaries- “90404  Changing” – Producer/Director/Writer

Pan African Film Festival 2007

San Francisco Black Film Festival 2007

Oakland Int’l Film festival 2007

 

“Cries of Silence” – Producer, Director of Photography, Co-Editor

Winner best film 1998 Giffoni Int’l Film Festival

 

“Chihuly River of Glass” – Producer, Director, Dir. of Photography

Gold Medal –Aurora Awards 2000

Silver Medal – US Film festival 1999

 

“Raising The Ashes” – Director of Photography, Line Producer

Silver Medal – Chicago Film Festival 1999

 

“Leap of Faith” – Special Visual FX sequences for CBS Movie

 

“Nights in White Satin” – Director