American author, art critic, and curator Richard Speer
“What I find about Barry is that he is concerned with the portrayal of a transcendental moment by way of abstraction.
He is interested in light, not only as a beautiful form in and of itself, but Barry is interested in the portrayal of light and color as a metaphor for transcendent experience.
It’s handled in a way which communicates an epiphany, which communicates a kind of eureka moment, when everything is revealed and delicious knowledge of creation and of the cosmos will be revealed to the viewer.
There are these passages everywhere you look, of texture, and surface effects, in a sort of organic layering of this almost molten textures, which often Barry Mack superimposes order upon, so you see this kind of duet between natural chaos, with thestructures of civilization layered upon it.
There’s also a great sense of color, a kind of epiphanic moment, of an epiphany that can convey to us something which figurative art really couldn’t.”