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About Sadie Barnette
Utilizing a range of materials and media, from Polaroids to glitter to spray paint, Sadie Barnette isolates individuals and events, removing all context to create uncanny remembrances of ordinary life. The partial intimacy of Barnette’s photography and collages read like the private memory of an unknown stranger, scrubbed of context and yet unmistakably personal. Previous projects incorporated a 500-page FBI dossier on Barnette’s father, who was closely surveilled by the FBI due to his involvement in the Black Panther Party, which viewers are challenged to understand through the lens of the relationship between a young girl and her father. Throughout her multidisciplinary practice, Barnette commands the dreamlike quality of her work with subtlety and confidence.
American, b. 1984, Oakland, CA, United States, based in Los Angeles, California
Solo Shows
2017
2017
Group Shows
2018
Los Angeles,
2017
Nome,
Berlin, 2017
Los Angeles,
2017
The FLAG Art Foundation,
New York, USA, Cynthia Daignault: There is Nothing I could Say That I Haven't Thought Before
2016
2015
Johannesburg,
