Mixed media art piece by Dennis G. Barrington

This 1975 mixed media artwork by Dennis G. Barrington exemplifies the artist’s fascination with form, texture, and the dialogue between industrial precision and organic abstraction. Encased within a circular recess, the composition is a sculptural relief made of intricately arranged elements—geometric shapes, rounded forms, and intersecting planes—that emerge from a rust-toned surface. Barrington’s use of metal and textured materials such a wooden blocks gives the piece both a tactile depth and a mechanical resonance, evoking the inner workings of a machine or an abstract cityscape viewed through a porthole. The brushed metal frame, with its radial sheen, contrasts sharply with the earthy, weathered tones of the interior, creating a compelling interplay between cold modernity and warm material decay. The result is a work that feels both futuristic and timeless—a reflection on the relationship between human craftsmanship and industrial progress. Barrington’s precision and balance of form suggest not just a visual composition, but a sculptural language exploring rhythm, space, and the poetry of structure itself. Barrington was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930 and worked as a designer, painter, collage and object artist, trained and worked as a window dresser.