ZEA: WORKS IN PROGRESS

Clown Piece in Orlando

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:12:00 +0000

The_JANUARY_Project
A night of eccentricities

Three pieces by Casey Sweeney, Zea Barker and Summer Shapiro + Peter Musante

Plus Live Music, Visual Art, Hair Art, Hand-to-hand acrobatics and finishing with an Open Forum to share your work

Doors at 9pm
The Master Class Academy
711 North Orange Ave
Winter Park FL

tickets

New Music Video

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:33:00 +0000

Presenting the second music video i have shot, cut and directed for the incomparable band, Neptune.

The concept was created by Daniel Paul Boucher of the band. Hear more of their music on myspace and watch the first music video. Please spread the word. Thanks for looking.

also available on youtube.

Sketchbook: November. The End.

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:00 +0000

After having this sketchbook for just over a year, all the pages are filled and it's time to start a new one. The time spans from a month before my big move to Chicago through the first year. Interesting times. More examples from this sketchbook can be found on this blog (chronologically- past to present): here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here and here.
Thanks for looking.

...................and the last entry......................

srsly

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:46:00 +0000

yow. best.

NEW WEBSITE

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:02:00 +0000

********ZEABARKER.COM*******

at long last, and under the threat of website disappearing and after cramming all sorts of new info about html and css into my noggin, my new site is finished!
visit! poke around. tell me if anything is amiss.

bonylil.com will still get you to the site, but if you link to my site, please use zeabarker.com so's the new domain can get some traction.

THANKS!!

Sketchbook: october 12th

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:52:00 +0000

With Dr. Killbot

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:44:00 +0000

Doing a clown bit with Dr.Killbot at the Beat Kitchen tomorrow night.

Sketchbook: September

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:12:00 +0000

Cirque!

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:04:00 +0000

{this is a post for cirque du soleil's consideration}

click images to view large

Framed Art for Sale

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:22:00 +0000

Drawings for Sale. As seen in Manhattan gallery show.

Pen and Ink drawings on paper. Both sides of a sheet of paper for the subtle effect of the figures being submerged in the paper. Most framed in 9"x 14" frames, between 2 sheets of glass so light can pass through from the back to highlight more of the hidden drawing. $150 each. Horizontal piece, "bunny", is framed 14"x 17".

Open to haggling.

Will definitely exchange piece for new Guess starlet style jeans in dark blue size 28.

Sketchbook: Late August

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:28:00 +0000

Chronicles of Inspiration

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:06:00 +0000

When I was about 6 or 7, maybe 8, I would spend the the beginnings and ends of weekends on the Vermont Transit bus betwixt my parents. I had a walkman with some tapes of my mother's and my own to bide the time: Paul Winter's album of whale + soprano sax duets, The Talking Heads, Tiffany, and Kate Bush. One Christmas, when i was maybe 8, i think it was my father, got me a new 110 camera. You know, the flat rectangular kind. On one of those trips, I had one Kate Bush album or other cranked on my walkman and was overcome by the late afternoon sky outside the bus windows. Especially the sky and clouds outside the opposite windows. I grabbed my camera, swimming in Kate Bush singing about wolves and clouds and Heathcliff and I tried my best to capture the euphoria i was feeling. I only had the dimmest of realizations that the folks on the other side of the aisle might be a bit confused as to what i was up to and why i was taking pictures of them. But I felt no shame, i kept snapping until the light had changed or until the album ended, with that succession of octave tones, and i had to flip the tape.

I looked about like this at the time:

Sketchbook: August 4+5

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:58:00 +0000

A proclivity for foppish bad boys

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:23:00 +0000

First Foray into Art Criticism...

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Decider.com has posted the results of three clowns going into Chicago's Art Institute's new Modern Wing to watch the entire hour loop of Bruce Nauman's video installation, 'clown torture'. I was one of those clowns.

Photo by Kelly Reilly

WANTED: reviewed

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:02:00 +0000

Review

"high-level clowning"
"spandex"
"Mamet"

where's my Tony.

Sketchbook: early july

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Another Portrait by Nene

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:21:00 +0000

...as a bear.

...and i don't think she even knew about this:

BLING - Summer Mix Series

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:40:00 +0000

Themed summer mix I made.
Check it out.
Check out other folks's.
Make one too.
xx

Portrait by Nene

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:09:00 +0000

My friend Jenee made a picture of me the other morning.
I love it.

Comicbook + Clown Show

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:32:00 +0000

Been working on illustrating a comicbook: details for later.
Also been finishing up the graphic for the Clown Show opening in July!
Getting ready to go out on the street and beg for change. That's the only paying work I've got on the horizon. Anyone have a new refrigerator box they're not using?

Moustache May: Smashing Success!

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:56:00 +0000

I was so tickled to be able to do some scribbles for the official Moustache May t-shirt this year. It was a wonderful month of flagrant facial hair and it warmed my heart to see the fellas sporting the design. {above}

Being in a relentless pursuit of perfection, I have altered my own shirt a bit.

Much thanks to Young Master Eades for the opportunity and here's to many more celebrations of facial fuzz in the future.

Sketchbook: june 3rd

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Sketchbook: May

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:12:00 +0000

Moustache May T-Shirt!!

noreply@blogger.com (Zea) — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:40:00 +0000

I designed the graphic for the Moustache May T-shirt this year!
He's taking orders now. Git'm.