Robert Barry Space Quotations

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.

reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.