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DARKSIDE OF THE RAINBOW
Art Palace, Houston, Texas
October 15 through November 12, 2011

Darkside of the Rainbow, Barry Stone’s first solo show at Art Palace, takes its title from the common practice
of playing the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon (1973) album synchronously.
Just as the superimpositionof film and album suggests new associations emerging from the juxtaposition
of seemingly incongruous elements, so too do Stone’s groupings of photographs, drawings, collage and paintings.
Stone places a photograph of a rainbow that seems to project from a man’s head at the seaside alongside abstract
paintings of imagined dark portals,abstractions from vintage heavy metal music magazines, and digital rainbows
created from press photographs. Placed within a fluid architecture-characterized by repeating motifs, contradiction
and fantasy-any image grouping may suggest multiple meanings. Stone’s work revels in and lays bare the
constructions of our image fantasies; in these works fact and fantasy fold into one another to create hopeful
visions and yet offer dire warnings.

Review of Darkside of the Rainbow here.