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New York artist Kevin Barrett has been surrounded by abstract sculpture and painting his entire life. His welded aluminum sculptures and wall reliefs reflect a successful blending of these two disciplines.
Born into a family of artists in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1962, Kevin learned about materials, structure, figurative forms, and eventually the elegance of abstract forms from his father, sculptor Bill Barrett. When the family moved to New York Kevin apprenticed with his father and learned to weld and work with aluminum, steel, and bronze.
Kevin took an early interest in art and used to watch his grandfather, an abstract expressionist painter who founded the art department at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, paint in his studio. Barrett attributes his interest in and use of color to enhance the three-dimensional forms in his own work to this early influence.
In high school, Kevin won New York’s Golden Key Award in Art. He also won a national scholastic art competition, which resulted in his first commission to build a large, outdoor welded-aluminum sculpture. Kevin continued his education at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore.
After college, Barrett created sculptures for Shidoni, a bronze casting and fabricating foundry and outdoor sculpture park in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also apprenticed to a number of well known artists in New York and Europe and built sculptures for such well known artists as Herbert Ferber, Tom Wesselmann, and Alan Houser.
Barrett set up his first studio in Miami, where he worked for ten years before returning to New York City, where he currently maintains a studio and resides with his wife, Sabina, and their three daughters.
Barrett brings a deeply felt expressive content, energy, and rhythmic unity to the inherent strength and durability of his chosen medium. His success is well documented; his sculptures and wall reliefs have been shown and can be found throughout the United States and in Europe both in public and private collections.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2011 Outdoor Sculpture, C-Fine Arts, Shelter Island, New York.
2006 New Sculptures and Wall Reliefs, Artefact Gallery, New York, New York.
2004 New Sculptures, DeGraaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan.
2001 Front Street Series, Robert Pardo Gallery, New York, New York.
1997 Wall Sculptures, Ezair Gallery, New York, New York.
1995 Sculptural Wall Illusions, Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, New York.
1991 New Sculptures, Boehringer Gallery Inc., Hobe Sound, Florida.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida.
2012 Inaugural Event, Salazar Contemporary Art Exhibits, La Jolla, California.
2011 Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, Texas.
2011 Art MRKT, Bridgehampton, New York.
2011 Art Hamptons, Sayre Park, Bridgehampton, New York.
2011 Uncommon Ground II, Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, New York.
2011 Art Chicago,Merchandise Mart,Chicago, Illinois.
2010 Art Hamptons, Sayre Park, Bridgehampton, New York.
2010 Uncommon Ground, Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, New York.
2010 Group Show, Armstrong De Graaf Gallery, Holland, Michigan.
2009 The Sculpture Mile, Madison, Connecticut.
2009 Group Show, De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan.
2009 Group Show, Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, Indiana.
2009 Modern Marvels, Rosetta Stone Fine Art Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida.
2009 Outdoor Sculpture, The Commons, Rosetta Stone Fine Art Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida.
2008 Sculpt Miami, Art Basel, Miami, Florida.
2008 National Small Sculpture Invitational, Palm Desert, California.
2006 24th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York.
2006 Three Sculptors, Walter Randel Gallery, New York, New York.
2006 Group Show, Lurie Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2005 Group Show, De Graaf Fine Art, Ltd., Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2005 Inaugural Group Show, Artefact Pardo Galleria, Zurich, Switzerland.
2004 Group Show, Artefact Galleria, Milano,Italy.
2003 Group Show, De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan.
2003 Group Show, De Graaf Fine Art, Ltd., West Palm Beach, Florida.
2002 Anti-Gravity, Robert Pardo Gallery, New York, New York.
2002 Group Show, De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan.
2001 Collectors Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
2001 21st Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Mather Hospital, Port Jefferson, New York.
2000 Lagacies 2000, Alva Gallery, New London, Connecticut.
2000 Group Show, Pardo Lattuada Gallery, New York, New York.
2000 20th Annual Outdoor Show, Mather Hospital, Port Jefferson, New York.
1998 Group Show, Manifold Tribe, Chicago, Illinois.
1998 Quietude Garden Gallery Show, East Brunswick, New Jersey.
1998 A Sculpture Survey, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1997 Reliefs and Sculptural Wall Art, West Side Bronze Contemporary Sculpture, Santa Fe, NM.
1997 Summer Show, Museum Master, New York, New York.
1996 A Sculpture Survey, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1996 Quietude Garden Gallery Show, East Brunswick, New Jersey.
1996 Inaugural Exhibition,The Museum Masters Collection, New York, New York.
1996 Art Miami '96, Miami Convention Center, Florida.
1995 Group Show, Rush Foundation, New York, New York.
1995 Group Show, Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, New York.
1994 Collectors Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida.
1994 Inaugural Exhibition, Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, New York.
1994 Group Show, Roswitha Benkert Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
1993 Group Show, LMG Gallery, New York, New York.
1993 A Sculptural Survey, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1992 Group Show, Rachel Freedman Contemporary Fine Art, New York, New York.
1992 Sixth Annual Rosen Exhibition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
1992 1.5 Show, Muranushi Lederman Production, New York, New York.
1992 Outdoor Sculpture Show, Brickell Ave, Miami, Florida.
1992 Outdoor Sculpture Show, Forum Group, Jacksonville, Florida.
1991 Art Expo, Roswitha Benkert Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
1991 Premier Show, Art Star Gallery, Los Angles, California.
1991 Sculpture Project, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1991 Group Show, The Artists Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1991 Summer Sculpture Show, Greene Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1991 Indoor / Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Northwood Institute, West Palm Beach, Florida.
1990 1st Annual Florida State of the Art Exhibition, Miami Beach, Florida.
1989 Joy Moos Gallery Artists Exhibition, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1988 Micro Show, Now Gallery, New York City, New York.
1988 Micro Show, Artifacts Art Salon, Miami Beach, Florida.
1988 Joy Moos Gallery Artists Installation, Capital Bank Building, Miami, Florida.
1987 Projections, Contemporary Art Center of North Miami, Miami, Florida.
1986 Group Show, Artifacts Art Salon, Miami Beach, Florida.
1986 Group Show, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1985 Artists Choose Artists, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, New York.
1982 Annual Show, Shidoni Art Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:
2011 Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan.
2006 City of Coral Springs, Sample Road, Coral Springs, Florida.
2006 Proskauer Rose, Boston, Massachusetts.
2006 Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Rain Garden, 400 Culver Street, Saugatuck, Michigan.
2003 Meringoff Properties, 360 Lexington Ave, New York, New York.
2003 Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, Florida.
2001 The Thompson Financial, New York, New York.
2001 Bayerishe Landesbank, New York, New York.
1992 Swire Properties, Inc., Brickell Key, Miami, Florida.
1985 Freeman Securities, 75 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey.
1980 Martin Pitt Commemorative Sculpture, Hastings High School, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
EDUCATION:
1980 Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, Maryland.
BORN:
1962 Ann Arbor, Michigan.