Americanist Dinner Forum: An evening with Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Lyndon Barrois Jr. is an artist interested in instances of conviction, methods of deception, and systems of value. Using production, conservation, and forgery as intersecting acts of deceptive practice, he borrows from cinematic frameworks to construct what he calls a static film: installations that evoke a cinematic narrative without moving images. Barrois Jr. will share his recent approaches to themes of value, deception, reproduction, and interrogating history through fiction.
About Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. New Orleans, LA) is an artist and artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, where he is an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is half of LAB-D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged four exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019).
He uses cinema as a means to travel both temporally and geographically, bringing to mind ideas of anachronism, simultaneity, and reanimation. Looking at branding strategies of old cinema—along with the phased-out profession of shooting film stills—he considers these methods ways to represent a film that has yet to be seen. He is currently undergoing a project that uses the heist film and museum context to contend with legacies of colonial extraction. In various ways, Barrois Jr. navigates questions around color, control, taste, waste, and the layering of information.
Barrois Jr. received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2006). He has completed residencies at LATITUDE Chicago, Loghaven, the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands), Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland. He is currently the Starr Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools London.
