Barbara Furbush
Shifting Moods...1, monoprint,30x22", 2020
Seducing Zeus, AP, 2 plate photo-faceprint, 10x8"
Watching... installation (PVAC), bodyprint w/clay, 66x42"
Passing Storm, pastel transfer monoprint, 20x30"
The Question Now is..., faceprint, positive&negative, 6-6x4" (22x15")
Mythic Women - participatory installation (Hartnell CC), 34 body prints, size varies
‘A printmaker by training, prone to flights of installation and participatory art,
my images tend more toward implication than the explicit.’
Returning to the Peninsula transformed the artwork of Barbara Lee Furbush whose impressions have continually invoked the human presence. Dwelling high on the Monterey Bay invites engagement with the protean dance of sky and water. Barbara’s images are atmospheric - inspired by Rothko, more than Constable. With both cloud and body images, it is the ephemeral that she chases in her prints with ink veils layered on paper or in using experimental materials such as clay pressed into sheer cloth.
Barbara stretches the boundaries of printmaking into installation and participatory works.
The evolution of the ideas into installation art was a spontaneous growth from her investigation of body-printing and the psychological implications of those shadow-forms in an inhabited space. For a collaboration, she created Catacombae, a canopy with passageways to be walked through during an interactive performance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition - each fabric ‘wall’ of the installation was created by print techniques. She created Mythic Women in collaboration with 32 women, each thoughtfully chose their mythic being before re-creating Her in bodyprint.
Barbara Furbush earned a BA from the University of Maryland in Art History & Studio Art, mentored by Meredith Rode and Jim Forbes. Moving west Barbara was mentored by Dick Swift and John Paul Jones (UCI) and received an MFA in Printmaking at California State University, Long Beach in 1985. Exhibiting regularly in Los Angeles for over 30 years, her works are found in public and private collections in Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Monterey. She opened the Atmos Press/Studio in 2012, currently in Mariposa Hall, New Monterey.
At Atmos Press, Barbara is on a mission to teach a basic understanding of the different print techniques through Prints: 101 presentations, which she offers to ‘take on the road’ She conducts a series of hands-on workshops for art professionals and the curious. She is honored to be a member of MPC Printmakers, CSP, and WAM (Long Beach)
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