Bill Barminski
His work has been part of creative projects such as Banksy's Dismaland, Beyond The Streets and The Cunning Little Vixen, a new media production of the Leoš Janáček opera produced by the Cleveland Orchestra.
He works in many mediums and starting in 2008 began producing cardboard sculptures that focus on white forms with pinstripe outlines to convey the notion of 3 dimensional drawings.
[1] Author and cultural critic, Greil Marcus references this character in Artforum as being an offshoot of the Situationist International political movement: "What's most remarkable about Bill Barminski's Fascist Gun in the West is how quickly and completely it pulls you into its twisted, yet utterly familiar little world".
[citation needed] After dropping out of art school in 1985, Barminski moved to Los Angeles where he continued to produce his hand-bound comic books.
The film stars Brad Dourif as a homicidal artist living in downtown Los Angeles and Barminski makes a cameo appearance.
In 2011 he was part of a show in London at POW Gallery that featured artists Evol, Tilt, Dran, Paul Insect, Jimmy Caulty, Banksy and others.
Performed by the Cleveland Orchestra at the Severance Hall and conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, the production returned the opera to its comic-strip roots; Janáček was inspired by a daily comic strip that followed the adventures of a female fox called Sharp Ears.
Entitled "Greed in Action", the four-minute piece features stock footage and original flash animations by the artist including American vintage automobiles being dropped from B-52 Stratofortress bombers.
Barminski worked with director Peter Howitt and Oscar-winning editor Zach Staenberg to create multiple video sequences for the feature film Antitrust (2001), starring Tim Robbins and loosely based on the real-life creator of a major software conglomerate.
The duo has created numerous videos for bands such as Gnarls Barkley, Rob Thomas, Hawthorn Heights, Underoath and Death Cab for Cutie.
[13] Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as shared by their original authors before total strangers.
