Brown Foundation Gallery

November 15, 2025 - February 1, 2026

ArtWalk Opening Reception
Saturday, November 15, 2025
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

GAC’s exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.

Barry Stone
Porch Swing Orchestra

Porch Swing Orchestra (PSO) is an ongoing project by Barry Stone that explores the interplay between images, music, and field recordings. The work incorporates photographs accompanied by improvised guitar melodies and audio recorded at their location. Stone’s photographs are often “data bent,” which involves manipulating the code of his digital images. The resulting photographs contain glitches and visual anomalies which mirror the spontaneous and unpredictable nature of the peripheral sounds captured in the audio recordings. This iteration of PSO features wall mounted vinyl images and sounds collaged from past recordings and site-specific recordings made in Galveston with the installation growing and evolving as the artist continues his exploration of the island.

Barry Stone is a Professor of Photography at Texas State University and holds a BA in Biology and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas. Stone’s work explores the roles sound, image, and materiality play in creating notions of our past and imagined futures. Stone played in the Trance Syndicate bands johnboy, Desafindo and Mountains in Stars. He is the founder of Porch Swing Orchestra, and represented by Klaus von Nichtsaggend Gallery.

Porch Swing Orchestra (PSO) began as a web project in 2018 and has expanded into installation, performance, collaboration, and curation. PSO started out on Stone’s porch and has grown to include pieces at Spiral Jetty in Utah, the border town of Del Rio, Texas, on the coast of Maine, as scholar in residence at the University of Washington's Whitley Center at Friday Harbor Labs in the San Juan Islands, and other far-flung places. PSO has been featured in Artforum and Glasstire and has performed at Lora Reynolds Gallery, in the UT Austin’s Landmarks Public Art Program’s Sky Space, The Color Inside, by James Turrell, been commissioned by The Texas Historical Commission to create original audio and visual works, and has curated a series of performances at Co-Lab Projects. PSO was the subject of a solo exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York City and featured in ICOSA’s soundscape program. Since 2018, PSO has collaborated with dozens of musicians, artists, poets, writers, and activists to publish over 240 pieces.

barrystone.com
porchswingorchestra.org