Barry™ | Artist | Storyteller | Creator

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Contemporary Fine Art at the Intersection of Image and Culture

Barry™ creates paintings, assemblages, and fine art prints that draw from pop culture, art history, and everyday imagery. The work spans several ongoing series, including Serenity, NuCubism, NuHeroes, Assemblages, and newer pop-surrealist pieces. Familiar images are reused and reworked to shift meaning, often revealing tension, irony, or unexpected humor.

Some works are quiet and observational. Others are more fragmented or confrontational. What connects them is an interest in how images shape understanding—and how that understanding changes when images are taken out of their original context and placed side by side.

Featured Prints

A small selection of works currently available as fine art prints.

Each work in this series is produced as a fine art giclée print using archival inks and museum-quality paper, ensuring long-lasting color and detail. Every print is part of a limited run and comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity, marking it as a real, collectible artwork—not a poster or mass reproduction. Limited editions are special because they’re made in small numbers: once they’re gone, they’re gone. That makes them easy to appreciate now and meaningful to hold onto over time—something you can live with, share, and pass along

SuperStuck – Barry™

They were built to save the world, but what happens when the world they must face is just as unrelenting, absurd, and indifferent as our own?

Wonder Woman enters a laundromat carrying a massive army tarp of laundry. Her magic lasso holds an oversized bottle of detergent on one end and a red wagon train of fighting Precious Moments-style children on the other. Across the street, an Edward Hopper-style scene with a barber pole stands still in contrast to her chaotic task. The title, Oh No, I Forgot My Quarters, humorously reframes this as an everyday act of heroism.

In SuperStuck, Barry™ strips away the grandiosity of comic book mythology, placing its most powerful figures into the kind of moments that no superhuman ability can prevent: miscommunication, exhaustion, consequence, and the realization that even the strongest among us can still be undone by fate, folly, or each other.

We expect superheroes to battle forces of chaos, to stand unwavering against disaster. But what if the disaster is already behind them, a smoldering wreck of miscalculation and misplaced confidence? What if, despite their best efforts, they are left only with the burden of knowing they should have seen it coming?

With humor and tragedy in equal measure, this series challenges the illusion of invincibility. It reminds us that even those who can fly, bend steel, and defy time itself are still at the mercy of the small, unglamorous failures that make us human.

The world won’t always give us a villain to fight. Sometimes, it just gives us consequences.

And sometimes, the only thing left to do is roll your eyes and say, I told you so.

🔥 “Step Inside the Collection”
📌 Explore how superheroes struggle against the everyday in Barry™’s fine art series.

For Private Collectors

Inquiries about original works, commissions, or collaborative projects are welcome. If a piece sparks an idea, start the conversation at barry@barrymcmahon.com.


Fine Art Prints & Collections

Barry™’s limited edition prints are available across several ongoing bodies of work, including contemporary figurative pieces, pop-influenced imagery, and quieter observational series. Prints are produced using archival giclée methods and released in small editions. Available works can be explored through the Superheroes, NuCubism, NuHeroes, and Serenity collections, with select pieces offered as individual limited editions.

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