Throughout the past two decades, Uta
Barth has made visual perception the subject of her work. Regarded for her
“empty” images that border on painterly abstraction, the artist carefully
renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light
to capture incidental and fleeting moments, those which exist almost
exclusively within our periphery. With a deliberate disregard for both the conventional
photographic subject and point-and-shoot role of the camera, Barth’s work
delicately deconstructs conventions of visual representation by calling our
attention to the limits of the human eye.
A 2012 McArthur Fellow, Barth was
born in Berlin in 1958 and currently resides in Los Angeles. She received a
B.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1982 and an M.F.A from the
University of California, Los Angeles in 1985.
Since then, Barth’s work has been
the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. Notable solo presentations include
to draw with light at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA (2013), … and to draw
a bright, white line with light at The Art Institute of Chicago (2011), Henry
Art
Gallery at the University of
Washington in Seattle (2011), nowhere near, and of time, white blind (bright
red) (1999–2002) at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico (2005), nowhere near at the
Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2000), and In Between Places, which
originated at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington and
traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (2000).
Her work continues to be well
represented in both private and public collections, including those of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao, Spain; The Tate Modern,
London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, UCLA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Getty Museum,
Los Angeles, and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.
The artist has taught at the
University of California, Riverside since 1990, where she currently serves as
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art. She is also a graduate faculty
member at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Venue name: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Address: 521 W 21st St #1, New York , 10011
Cross street: Between Tenth and
Eleventh Aves
Opening hours: Tue–Sat 10am–6pm
Transport: Subway: F to Lower East
Side–Second Ave
Event website:
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com
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