ARTIST:

Sara Barker

Fenestra
Sara Barker
La Lecon de Piano
Sara Barker
Everyone is de trop
Sara Barker
A Certain Slant Of Night
Sara Barker

Text by Ben Street

Intercourse
Sara Barker
Love Letter
Sara Barker
Words are form
Sara Barker
Conversions
Sara Barker
A Certain Sant of Night
Sara Barker
Fenestra
Sara Barker
Sara Barker’s works don’t simply breach the boundaries between painting and sculpture, they are that boundary. Skeletal structures in aluminium and steel describe wonky rectangular shapes in the air in hesitant lines, as though uncertain of themselves; their forms are those of sketches, not sculptures. Their surfaces are then coated with layers of oil paint, gouache and watercolour in the blanched and airy palette of a landscape painting. And as landscapes do, Barker’s works posit painting as a thing to be inhabited, and draw on the tradition of inhabited rooms in the quiet modernist lineage of Bonnard and Matisse (one work is named after his 1916 painting ‘The Piano Lesson’).
La Leçon De Piano
Sara Barker
Modernist literature, too, has long provided Barker with inspiration for her spindly spatial constructions: both the metaphorical and actual space of Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’ – the unfolding of a novel is, too, a kind of space-making – might provide discreet associations with her work. Yet Barker’s works refuse to cooperate with conventional categorization: these are the spaces between, like the gaps that separate words in a sentence. Their power lies in what they don’t quite say.
Words Are Form
Sara Barker
Intercourse
Sara Barker
Conversions
Sara Barker
Everyone Is De Trop
Sara Barker
Love Letter
Sara Barker
Love Letter
Sara Barker
Love Letter
Sara Barker
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