Bob Barry: the other world 

The other world is Bob Barry’s second exhibition of ceramic sculpture at BAU Gallery. Making a departure from his earlier floral fantasy sculptures, each creature, influenced by Pre-Columbian ceramics, serves as a metaphor to honor the spirit of an animal. 

About the artist: Bob was chairman of the art department at Long Island University, where he taught pottery and ceramic sculpture for over 30 years. Bob has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, in solo shows and group exhibitions, including at the Dorsky Museum, the United Nations Gallery, WAAM, and The Gallery Ferer (Berlin). He has been awarded residencies in A.I.R. Vallauris (Vallauris, France), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, Maine) and Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Woodstock, NY). Bob received the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation award for excellence in ceramic sculpture. 

Nansi T. Lent: Said, Not Said

Nansi T. Lent is fascinated by the paradox of living in a world flooded with communication—where words saturate every medium yet so often fail to convey true meaning. Her work explores this tension through illegible text, abstract calligraphy, redaction, masking, and digital distortion. Asemic writing—marks that look like language but carry no fixed meaning—is central to her work. As an antidote to the digitization of our world, it champions traces of script, the language of the human hand.

About the artist: Nansi T. Lent is a painter and photographer from Rhinebeck, NY, with a B.A. in Studio Art from Boston College and a Master’s in Visual Arts Administration from NYU. She has exhibited widely in New York’s Hudson Valley and beyond, including The Katonah Museum of Art, The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, and Gallery 40, among others. Lent has received multiple awards and is represented by BAU Gallery in Beacon while serving on the Board of Directors at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum.