Barry Gerson: THE FILMS, THE ART
It has always been about the Light. Just as
I have now found the Light to be about our healing.
Barry Gerson is a noted experimental filmmaker whose work gained renown for exploring the spiritual elements of light starting in the 1960s. Those films, alongside his paintings with photo elements, sculptures and film/light boxes, have been shown in galleries and installations ever since, including several Whitney Museum of American Art biennials and retrospectives in major cinema centers and museums around the globe. Gerson has taught filmmaking at a number of key institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Bard College and SUNY-Buffalo. Starting with The Neon Rose in the 1960s, Gerson has created dozens of iconic film works through the years, all now collected at Anthology Film Archives and other museums around the world.