Bob Barry works primarily in ceramic sculpture, exploring humanity’s fractured relationship with the natural world and our growing distance from its rhythms. Through clay, he seeks to honor nature and create spaces to hold memory and myth. In The Past Future,an exhibition of new work, Barry continues to explore themes he pursued in his last two BAU solos (Florescence presented flowers gone wild, evoking abundance, disorder, and nature unchecked; The Other World reimagined through a contemporary lens animal forms influenced by ancient Mayan, Inca, and Pueblo traditions). Here, Barry focuses on the delicate veil that separates our present reality from the natural and spiritual worlds. His art reflects a longing for reconnection—a recognition that the boundary between human and nature is far thinner than we acknowledge.

About the artist: Bob Barry is a ceramic sculptor, functional ceramic artist, and photographer based in High Falls, New York. A retired professor and former chair of Visual Arts at Long Island University, Brooklyn, he has exhibited internationally and completed artist residencies in Japan, France, and the United States. He has shown at BAU Gallery since 2024.