BIOGRAPHY:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009
Sculpture Mile, Madison, Connecticut
De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan
Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, Indiana
Modern Marvels, Rosetta Stone Fine Art Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Outdoor Sculpture, The Commons, Rosetta Stone Fine Art Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
2008
Sculpt Miami, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
National Small Sculpture Invitational, Palm Desert, California
2006
24th Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York
Three Sculptors, Walter Randel Gallery, New York, New York
Lurie Gallery, Miami, Florida
2005
De Graaf Fine Art, Ltd., Grand Rapids, Michigan
Artefact Pardo Galleria, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
Artefact Galleria, Milano, Italy
2003
De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan
De Graaf Fine Art, Ltd., West Palm Beach, Florida
2002
Anti-Gravity, Robert Pardo Gallery, New York, New York
De Graaf Forsythe Galleries, Inc., Saugatuck, Michigan
2001
Collectors Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
21st Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Mather Hospital, Port Jefferson, New York
2000
Lagacies 2000, Alva Gallery, New London, Connecticut
Pardo Lattuada Gallery, New York, New York
20th Annual Outdoor Show, Mather Hospital, Port Jefferson, New York
1998
Group Show, Manifold Tribe, Chicago, Illinois
Quietude Garden Gallery Show, East Brunswick, New Jersey
A Sculpture Survey, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1997
Reliefs and Sculptural Wall Art, West Side Bronze Contemporary Sculpture, Santa Fe, NM
Summer Show, Museum Master, New York, New York
1996
A Sculpture Survey, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Quietude Garden Gallery Show, East Brunswick, New Jersey
Inaugural Exhibition,The Museum Masters Collection, New York, New York
Art Miami '96, Miami Convention Center, Florida
1995
Rush Foundation, New York, New York
Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
1994
Collectors Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
Inaugural Exhibition, Dietrich Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
Roswitha Benkert Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1993
LMG Gallery, New York, New York
A Sculptural Survey, Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1992
Rachel Freedman Contemporary Fine Art, New York, New York
Sixth Annual Rosen Exhibition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
1.5 Show, Muranushi Lederman Production, New York, New York
Outdoor Sculpture Show, Brickell Ave, Miami, Florida
Outdoor Sculpture Show, Forum Group, Jacksonville, Florida
1991
Art Expo, Roswitha Benkert Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Premier Show, Art Star Gallery, Los Angles, California
Sculpture Project, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Artists Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Summer Sculpture Show, Greene Gallery, Miami, Florida
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
Now Gallery, New York City, New York
Artifacts Art Salon, Miami Beach, Florida
Joy Moos Gallery Artists Installation, Capital Bank Building, Miami, Florida
1987
Projections, Contemporary Art Center of North Miami, Miami, Florida
1986
Artifacts Art Salon, Miami Beach, Florida
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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
COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:
2006
City of Coral Springs, Sample Road, Coral Springs, Florida
Proskauer Rose, Boston, Massachusetts
Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Rain Garden, 400 Culver Street, Saugatuck, Michigan
2003
Meringoff Properties, 360 Lexington Ave, New York, New York
Vero Beach Museum, Vero Beach, Florida
2001
The Thompson Financial, New York, New York
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
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
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.
EDUCATION:
1980 Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, Maryland
BORN:
1962 Ann Arbor, Michigan