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 Barry Herem is a Seattle artist who has worked in the Northwest Coast Indian
style for many years. He has written about the subject as a reviewer, and
as an unofficial ethnographer and archaeologist who has done field work
collecting and publishing data about the precontact Tlingit and Haida of
Southeast Alaska.
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Barry's work is symbolic, animistic, and organic, and has been shown in nearly every major American city and many foreign ones.
Barry’s taut and harmonious work owes much to the essential forms of Northwest
Coast native art, which he has renewed and extended in what he calls
"equal parts invention and assimilation."
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He has created artworks in wood, steel, bronze, steel, fabric, aluminum
plate, glass, and serigraphic print form. He created two 30-foot aluminum
plate whale sculptures for the Portland, Oregon International Airport,
plus a large acrylic sculpture for the Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) airport.
He has created more than 40 limited-edition serigraphs, plus 5” x 7”
art cards based on them.
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Barry spends every summer exploring the island seascapes of British Columbia and
Southeast Alaska in his large sea-going canoe. He also frequently guides a 65-foot
schooner, "Crusader," on voyages of adventure through the same magical region.
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