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WHO:
Ivan Barnett
WHAT:
"CIRCLINGS"
An Exhibition of Mobiles
WHERE:
Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501 877.877.0827
WHEN:
December 3 - 26, 2010
Reception for the Artist,
Friday, December 3, 5:00 PM
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With CIRCLINGS, the title
of his latest exhibition, Ivan Barnett returns to his signature mobiles.
Designed with forms snipped from sheets of oxidized steel, mobiles in this
exhibit will be up to six feet high and composed with softened organic
shapes.
The languid circlings of mobiles are familiar to
most people. As the mobile turns, each of its elements turn, too, and the whole
Ivan
Barnett
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arrangement changes. Because the relationships of the parts
infinitely and continuously alter, a mobile never precisely repeats itself. It
is always uniquely arranged. The same might be said of Ivan Barnett's works. His
vocabulary of materials, color and shapes has remained fairly consistent over
the course of his almost forty year career. Sometimes working with wood, often
with oxidized steel, his work undergoes continuous, meaningful and satisfying
shifts. Its evolution is steady.
Barnett's work is highly design
driven. Every aspect of a piece is thought out and assessed. "I'll spend hours
moving a piece, from left, to right, from right to left, to up, to down. I'm
looking for its right place from a design perspective. Because good design is
good design, I always consider the classic principles when I work...but there's
room for the surprise, too, and I love the unknown. I can't know where the
design will lead or what the outcome will be."
Barnett's focus in this exhibition will be mobiles
featuring abstract forms, rather than figurative ones. He will also use found
objects, like wafer thin beach stones or sun-bleached fish bones, more tracery
than fish, or maybe a small button. They will be incorporated quietly, appearing
on one side of an element but not the other. As the element turns on the mobile,
the found object will appear, and then be gone.
"I'll use the found objects in
a delicate way...they won't scream. They serve to punctuate, they're not a
central component. They'll work with a quiet statement. It's the one time when I
am in the studio that I think about the viewer. If I add a red button, with a
mobile, it's like, 'What the hell's that doing there?' I like the unexpected,
some oddity, but only once in awhile. Then it's fun.... I love using found
objects. Something that's been out in the world, like a crushed bottle cap,
takes on a whole new meaning when it's placed into a work of art. You
re-contextualize the object...I love the surprise."
Each time he begins a new group of works, Barnett
returns to the work he most recently completed. It is how he balances creative
life with his daily life, family and the responsibilities of his gallery,
Patina. He views his art work on a continuum, as an ever evolving process. He is
never fully done and he never fully stops. By returning to the studio, to the
place where he left off, he can pick up the strand and resume his focus.
"Subtle" and "nuance" are two
of Barnett's favorite words. One way to understand this appreciation is to know
that he observes very closely. He sees things many others will miss and his eye
for detail is tireless. His attention to design stems from his particular
sensitivity to spacial relationships and color. Endlessly shifting the placement
of a stone to find its right spot in a composition is all just part of his work
as an artist.
The trajectory of Ivan Barnett's career in craft spans
almost 40 years and its arc tightly parallels the evolution of the American
craft movement itself. His work has involved nearly all aspects of the field,
from making to writing, consulting and currently owning one of the country's
premier fine craft galleries, Patina Gallery in Santa Fe.
Barnett's career achieved a
high profile in the early eighties when articles in Architectural Digest,
Country Home and Better Homes and Gardens extolled his artwork, especially his
wood and steel weathervanes. His portfolio includes notes from Ronald and Nancy
Reagan, and pictures of the White House Christmas tree where his ornaments were
hung. The New York Times reviewed an exhibition with his work and galleries
across the country clamored to show it. It was then that Alexander Girard
acquired works by Barnett, pieces that now reside in the Girard Wing of Santa
Fe's Museum of International Folk Art.
This will be Barnett's fifth
exhibition at Patina. The scheduling of each permits Barnett the rare
opportunity to focus exclusively on his own artwork and return to his passion
for creating. For this artist, parent and husband, gallery owner and director,
such time is precious.
An opening will be held from 5 - 7 on
December 3, 2010. Barnett will attend the opening.
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PATINA = BEAUTY OVER
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Now
in its 11th year, Patina is the creation of artists Allison and Ivan Barnett,
whose fresh curatorial aesthetic has established Patina as an international
destination for connoisseurs of Soul Stirring craft in clay, fiber, wood and
studio jewelry.
Patina exhibits more than 100
leading American and European artists, works by many of whom reside in the
permanent collections of important International museums.
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