Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Sonia E Barrett

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Berlin, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

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.

Studios

Alexander

Sonia E Barrett worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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