R Dean Barr, proprietor of The Gallery @ Barr Photographics, is excited to announce a new location for the gallery at 203 W Main St., Abingdon, VA 24210 with operating hours as 10am-6pm Monday through Saturday. The relocation, to a larger space, has enabled The Gallery to resume the feature artist exhibition series for six feature artists per year! Any artist interested in an exhibit should contact The Gailery.
The Gallery @ Barr Photographics re-opens with a renewed focus on museum quality, archival, custom picture framing. The gallery’s design staff has more than 45 years combined experience in the field, utilizing exclusively, archival, acid free components of mounting substrates, mats, glazing and framing techniques, no job is too large or small. Our focus remains on customer service, care of precious heirlooms and production of museum quality wall hangings to enhance clients’ décor, for both home and business.
Offerings of Fine Art, drawing upon twenty two years of previous art exhibition experience , incorporating curation of over one hundred, twenty-five art exhibits for established and emerging artists, the gallery continues to offer framed and gallery wrapped fine art paintings in oil, watercolor and acrylic, in styles ranging from plein aire, to abstract to representational, as well as exquisite counted cross stitch fabric art and photography giclee printed on canvas, from local, regional and national artists. Also in the fine art category, there is a robust selection of unframed original paintings, lithographs and giclee prints in styles ranging from representational, to abstract, to fantasy, from internationally recognized, award winning local, regional and national artists, all found in the “Art File”. The Gallery @ Barr Photographics represents twenty one, two dimensional artists with more than one hundred works for sale. These works and many more, may be seen and purchased at http://barrphotographics.com.
In the gift gallery is found juried, fine crafts from local, regional and national crafts persons. Selections of stunning pine needle baskets, hand crafted soap, artisan sterling silver jewelry creations, innovative bead work, beautiful high fired and salt fired pottery, amazing blown glass pieces, representing the work of twenty three fine craft artists. Also found in the gift gallery are gift lines of international flavor like Mother of Pearl inlay boxes, Bali sterling silver, fine soapstone boxes from India. Rounding out the gift lines are select works of pottery and silver with turquoise creations from indigenous peoples of the American west.
Established in 1986, as Barr Photographics, a photography studio opened by R Dean Barr., he Gallery @ Barr Photographics still offers portraits, product, fine art reproduction and photo restoration services as well as giclee printing. Many artists employ the giclee printing service to obtain prints for numbered editions of their popular works and if you are an artist, you can too!
” So, as the catch phrase for The Gallery @ Barr Photographics states, “Stop by…..You may find something you can’t live without!”