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Sculptor Bill Barrett was born in Los Angeles, California and studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he received both a B.S. and a M.S. in design, as well as an MFA. A longtime resident of New York City, Barrett now divides his time between Santa Fe and New York. His work has been widely shown in major museums and galleries coast to coast and in Switzerland and Japan. In addition, many of his works are owned by both corporate and private collector. Barrett works in three stages: A small bronze maquette, which the author Michael Brenson has described as "typically quirky, experimental, and figurative." The next stage involves blowing up the work into welded and polished aluminum. At this stage the sculpture is, as Brenson writes, "lighter now and closer in form and structure to Cubism and David Smith." Finally, Barrett creates more airy, and the effect is increasingly architectural . . . with a lightness and directness" (Michael Brenson, "The New York Times", 1985). Barrett's approach to art is basically humanistic. "Art helps people understand themselves better," he says. "I come from an expressionist attitude about what art is for. It's an involvement, that of the artist with his art and that of the art with the viewer. It becomes a very intimate conversation among the three, which is not new. It's always been this way. (Personal interview, Valentine Riddell, Santa Fe, 1992) Source: Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery, Inc. Bill Barrett Bill Barrett’s welded sculptures evolve through distinct phases. Each phase is a place to be explored, each producing a series of works unified by a clear concept of form and technique. And then, motivated by a sense of completion -- or more often by the spark of a new sculptural idea -- he leaps to another sculptural plane, another space to be explored. The full evolution of Bill’s artistic creation reveals that several formal ideas recur: the arch, the bridge and the virile, celebratory thrust of Don Quixote’s lance. Underlying it all is the grand theme of Bill’s search for an almost impossible synthesis between the tactile process of free modeling, the expressive gesture and the craft of welding sheets of metal. The power of the calligraphic gesture derives from two qualities. One is the immediacy of drawing, the hand responding to both the mind’s intent and to the graceful continuity of a cursive line. But calligraphy’s primary intent is to convey meaning. Even when adopted by an artist such as Jackson Pollock, it retains some of that referential quality, a suggestion of cryptic communication. For Bill, both aspects are important. From his earliest work he has aspired to the free expressive gesture. He has also felt deeply the need to communicate with people, and his pleasure is obvious when he feels that he has done so. The Sculpture Forum on the Plaza Westchester County Courthouse Plaza April 2006 Curriculum Vitae Born 1934 Los Angeles, Calif. Education B.S. and M.S. in Design, M.F.A., University of Michigan One Man Shows 2008 -- LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe 2008 -- Kouros Gallery, New York 2007 -- Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Ariz.; Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2006 -- Kouros Gallery, New York 2005 -- LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe 2004 - - Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton 2002 -- Century Association, New York; Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, California 2001 -- McCormick Works of Art, Chicago; Kouros Gallery, New York; Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe 2000 -- Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey; J. J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco 1998 -- Brookings Gallery, San Francisco; Nardin Gallery, 57th and Madison Avenue, New York 1996 -- J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco; Kouros Gallery,New York; Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe; Mongerson – Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago 1995 -- Galerie Roswitha Benkert, Zurich, Switzerland; Mongerson-Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago 1994 -- Kouros Gallery, New York 1993 -- Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe 1990 -- Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Tesuque, NM Corporate Collections and Commissions 2001 K. Street, Washington, D.C. Best Products Corporation, Richmond Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California Eighty One Mainstreet Associates, White Plains, New York Garden Communities, La Jolla, California Hitachi Corporation, Kyushu Plant, Kanda, Japan Jade Pig Corporation, Gaslight Village, Grand Rapids, MI La Jolla Crossroads, La Jolla, CA Lincoln National Life Insurance Company Foundation, Fort Wayne, Indiana Neiman-Marcus, Dallas Pacific Enterprises, Law Library, Los Angeles Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, Ark. (Belz Enterprises, Memphis, Tenn.) Portman Corporation, Northpark Town Center, Atlanta Rockefeller Realty Corporation, #3 Embarcadero West, San Francisco Saint Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe Schulman Realty Group, White Plains, New York Sempra Energy International, San Diego, California The Corinthian Building, New York Tower Insurance Group, 120 Broadway, New York Trammell-Crow, Paramount, California Valley National Bank, Phoenix West Group, One Bunker Hill, Los Angeles Museum Collections Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Allan Houser Foundation, Permanent Collection, Santa Fe Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Goddard Visual Art Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma Grounds for Sculpture Museum, Hamilton, New Jersey Guild Hall Museum of Art, East Hampton, New York Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee Las Vegas Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Nevada Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Norfolk Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Pyramid Hill, Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, Ohio Reading Museum, Reading, PA Runnymede Sculpture Farm, San Francisco Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York The Utsukushi-ga- Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Municipal Collections Ann Arbor City Hall, Ruby Church Memorial, Ann Arbor, Michigan City of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona Criminal Court Building, Hartford, Connecticut New York City, New Dorp High School, Staten Island, New York Nyack Plaza Mall, Nyack, New York Pennington Park, Patterson, NJ University Collections Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti Hope College, Holland, Michigan Iowa State University, “In the Art on Campus Collection,” University Museums, Iowa State University at the Gerdin Building, College of Business, Ames, Iowa Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Mitchell Wolfson New World Campus, Miami University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, School of Engineering, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 00198_ |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
1983
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| Country:
USA |
Maker:
Bill Barrett |
| Height:
16 in. (40.64 cm) |
Depth:
11 in. (27.94 cm) |
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Width: 12 in. (30.48 cm)
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Weight: 5 |
| Title:
Bill Barrett Sculpture Abstract |
Style:
Abstract |
| Materials:
Aluminum |
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