'Stem Cells Awaiting Instructions,' by Marc Barker, hand-tinted monotype

This 24" x 20" framed hand-tinted monotype on paper by Marc Barker features muted as well as bright multi-colored, layered shapes, patterns and particulars that resemble human cells floating and coursing through the human body. Like his similar painting 'Pareidolia' this too allows the viewer to perceive a specific, meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern, or the human ability to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness. The work is framed under Optium Museum UV protective acetate.

"My education was in mathematics, limnology and art. I revere nature and question my place within it, the Mystery, prismatic sunsets and sensuous memories exploring, surveying and photographing caves with their invented light, solitude, and deafening silence. I transform these experiences into psychologically contemplative subjects including shadow figures, asterisms, cloudscapes, political mixed media and abstractions." -- Marc Barker

Marc Barker has over 35 years experience in the arts and over 25 years experience teaching and producing in the field of interactive media. He managed Paseo Intaglio Printers in the late 1980s and continued into the 90s with editioning and contract printing for local and national artists. He was honored to be selected as 2004 Festival of the Arts juror for the Arts Council of Oklahoma City. He helped create the Artful Experience committee for the Arts Council of Oklahoma City and chaired that committee for its first two years teaching principles of printmaking to festival goers through exhibits and demonstrations. He was the guest juror for the 2009 Paseo Festival of the Arts, and in 2019 for the Goddard Center 47th Annual Competition. Marc was the Allied Artist representing OVAC (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition), had an exhibit in the State Capitol of Oklahoma’s East Gallery in 2008, and a painting chosen for the Oklahoma State Art Collection at the State Capitol.