Bill Barrett A Virtual Showcase
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Bill Barrett
Virtual Showcase: Recent and Classic Sculpture
Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 tel 505.988.3250 | contact@lewallengalleries.com
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New York State of Mind, 2005, fabricated bronze, 60 x 54 x 30 inches
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Over the course of his acclaimed six-decade artistic career, Bill Barrett has explored the interplay between positive and negative space with grace, elegance, and incomparable technical mastery. Barrett’s sophisticated constructions in fabricated bronze, and steel strike an exquisite balance between volume and space, light and shadow, organic intuition and tectonic invention. His manipulation of the formal relationships between these forces evoke a fluid choreography and reveal the masterful skill and unequaled vision of one of the foremost sculptors of our time.
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The apparent effortlessness of these graceful complexities is a result of the artist’s unremitting pursuit of pure beauty in his work. The energy of gesture infuses his graceful, dance-like forms with an elegant spontaneity reminiscent of action painting and the improvisational spirit of Abstract Expressionism. For this reason, Barrett’s work manifest a striking quality of kinesis that manages to seem graceful and organic, despite the solidity of the metal medium.
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Mirages, 2015, fabricated bronze, 47 x 44 x 28 inches
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Bouquet, 2018, corten steel, 36 x 49.5 x 38 inches
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Bouquet, detail
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Barrett has said, "[My artwork is] a vehicle through which my humanity communicates with the viewer’s. There is beauty in humanity—and art that reflects this beauty can elevate the quality of life.”
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DNA II, 2014, bronze, 32 x 50 x 13 inches
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Herald 14, 2016, bronze, 55 x 42 x 26 inches
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Bill Barrett is represented in numerous private and public collections. Museum collections include the Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; the Museum of Fine Arts, NM; the Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, OK; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA; the International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; the Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM; the Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Villa Haiss Museum für Zeitgenüssische Kunst, Zell Germany; and Runnymede Sculpture Farm, CA, among others. His works have been installed on many university campuses; most recently at Oklahoma State University, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Iowa State University.
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Bill Barrett
(b. 1934, Los Angeles, California)
EDUCATION B.S. and M.S. in Design, M.F.A., University of Michigan SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Action Abstraction, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 2016 The Bronze Touch, Taylor Graham, New York, NY Santa Fe Botanical Gardens, Exhibition of 14 outdoor sculptures, Santa Fe, NM 2015 Emanations in Bronze, LewAllen Galleries, Railyard, Santa Fe, NM Inquire Within, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania 2012 DNA, A painting and sculpture exhibition, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Sculpture and Paintings, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 2011 Paintings and Sculpture, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Polyphonics, Iowa State University, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Ames, IA Synchronicities, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2008-09 Exquisite Balance, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 2008 Michigan State University, College of Arts and Letters, Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, MI LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ 2006 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2005 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 2004 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL 2002 Century Association, New York, NY Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA 2001 McCormick Works of Art, Chicago, IL Kouros Gallery, New York, NY Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2000 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ J. J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX 1998 J. J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997–98 Nardin Gallery, New York, NY 1996 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1995 Mongerson-Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago, IL Galerie Roswitha Benkert, Zurich 1994 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT Allan Houser Foundation, Permanent Collection, Santa Fe, NM Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti, MI Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, OK Goddard Visual Art Center, Ardmore, OK Grounds for Sculpture Museum, Hamilton, NJ Guild Hall Museum of Art, East Hampton, NY Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM Hope College, Music School, Holland, MI The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Las Vegas Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT Mitchell Wolfson New World Campus, Miami, FL Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, CO National September 11 Memorial Museum, New York, NY Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY Norfolk Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Pyramid Hill, Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, OH Reading Museum, Reading, PA Rice University, Houston, TX Runnymede Sculpture Farm, San Francisco, CA Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ Stony Brook University, Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA The Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan University of Hartford, Hartford, CT University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI University of Montana, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV University of the South, Sewanee, TN University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY
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