© Douglas Barkey
A tree falls over a mountain stream. The violence and cracks like shots last for seconds. Then the silence of running water. For years the water strips away bark and leaves, polishing and burnishing the wood to a pale gray finish…and eventually dissolving the wood away and downstream. See more…..
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About Douglas Barkey
Douglas Barkey is an American-born artist who spent his childhood and youth in Argentina. His creative perspective reflects a life spent moving between multiple cultures and languages; being influenced by Latin American artists, musicians, and relationships. Among his exhibits are one-person shows at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Victoria Price Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, a group showing at the Museo de Arte Ateneo de Yucatan and a show of digital photographs at FotoNoviembre in Yucatan, Mexico.
Barkey received a bi-lingual high school education in Buenos Aires, Argentina before attending the Universidad de Puerto Rico and Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota where he received a BA in Fine Arts. In addition to working several years in the commercial and portrait photography industry he completed graduate work at the University of Iowa where he received an MA in Sculpture and an MFA in Photography.
Key educational leadership positions held include Director, Altos de Chavón School of Design; Professor, College of the Atlantic; Chair, Sage Universities Department of Visual Arts; Vice President for Media WORKS Enterprise; and Dean, Santa Fe Community College School of Arts & Design. He is currently the Online Program Director for Photography at the Art Institutes Online.
