Talking Art and Film with Lyndon, from Gum Wrappers to The Matrix
MEETING FOR THE WEEK OF Mar. 3, 2025
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Program: Talking Art and Film with Lyndon, from Gum Wrappers to The Matrix
Speaker: Lyndon J Barrois, Sr.
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INSPIRATION
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PROGRAM: Talking Art and Film with Lyndon, from Gum Wrappers to The Matrix
SPEAKER: Lyndon J Barrois, Sr.
We bring you a new program every week on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education and how they contribute to service to others.
In this conversational program, we’ll talk about Lyndon Barrois' work as an artist in the commercial, exhibition, and feature film visual effects world, as well as in the patronage space. We'll expand the artistic umbrella and its many disciplines' impact on culture, commerce and society as a historical tool or mirror that reflects our world.
Lyndon J Barrois, Sr is based in Los Angeles, and is an artist, animation director, and filmmaker. An AMPAS VFX Executive Branch member, Lyndon boasts a long career in art and animation. His film credits include The Matrix Trilogy, Happy Feet, and The Thing, where he directed pivotal character animation sequences in those features and many others.
He regularly wins accolades for his unique gum wrapper sculptures and stop-motion animations of contemporary and historic figures and events, whose portrait and Sportrait films are produced entirely on iPhones. Within the art world, his work has been featured in major institutions like the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the MOCA Los Angeles, the Massachusetts MOCA, The Hammer, the SFMOMA in San Francisco, and most recently added to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection, and the SR Foundation in Seoul, Korea. His subject matters range from gender inclusion and excellence in the FIFA World Cup and Olympics, America’s Covid-19 crisis, to past racial uprisings & achievements, and current political or social climates. A New Orleans native and HBCU graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, Lyndon serves on the boards of The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (his MFA Alma mater), YA/YA (Young Aspirations/Young Artists), Inc., the Academy Museum’s Inclusion Advisory Committee, the Smithsonian’s Regents Advancement Committee, and a member of the Black Trustees Alliance, fostering programs and supporting exhibitions.
Members and guests, please welcome Lyndon J Barrois, Sr!
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