Sonia E Barrett performs furniture. Her process appropriates mostly with 18th century wooden furniture and its many reiterations. Barrett uses furniture to consider the objectification of people and plants. Sculpture, installations, video works, and works on paper result from her investigations. Barrett's work has been included in the Santorini Biennale and shown at the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst in Berlin, and the Orange County Center For Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, CA. She was selected by the Institutue of International Visual Arts in London and Tate Liverpool to complete the Keywords project in 2013.
Sonia E Barrett
Studios
Alexander
Sonia E Barrett worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…