About the artist:

Bill Barrett, one of today’s foremost sculptors, was born in Los Angeles, CA. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Design from the University of Michigan, and later an M.F.A. from the same institution. Since the mid 1960’s Barrett has been exhibiting his unique metal sculptures and abstract paintings in numerous solo and group exhibitions in such places as the U.S., Switzerland, Bulgaria and Japan. Barrett’s sculptures of fabricated aluminum, bronze or steel address the interplay between positive and negative space with grace, elegance and exquisite balance. His works call to mind the fluid effortlessness of calligraphic strokes, and betray a positivism to which many viewers feel drawn. Others have said that Barrett’s sculptures are distinctly American in their directness and lightness. His sophisticated constructions, through a delicate balance of form and content, transcend the starker aesthetics of minimalism with a warmth and humanity. Barrett, who divides his time between New York City and Santa Fe, is represented in numerous private and public collections nationwide. Museum collections include the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT; the Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM; the Harwood Museum, NM; the Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, OK; the International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA; the Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and Runnymede Sculpture Farm, CA. His works have been installed on many university campuses, and he is frequently called upon to produce large public sculpture by commission. Bill Barrett Born in Los Angeles, California Education:B.S. and M.S. in Design, M.F.A., University of Michigan Corporate Collections and Commissions 2001 K. Street, Washington, D.C. Belz Enterprises, Memphis,Tennessee Best Products Corporation, Richmond Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, California Eighty One Mainstreet Associates, White Plains, New York Garden Communities, La Jolla, California Hitachi Corporation, Kyushu Plant, Kanda, Japan Jade Pig Corporation, Gaslight Village, Grand Rapids, MI La Jolla Crossroads, La Jolla, CA Lincoln National Life Insurance Company Foundation, Fort Wayne, Indiana Neiman-Marcus, Dallas Pacific Enterprises, Law Library, Los Angeles Portman Corporation, Northpark Town Center, Atlanta Rockefeller Realty Corporation, #3 Embarcadero West, San Francisco Saint Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe Schulman Realty Group, White Plains, New York Sempra Energy International, San Diego, California The Corinthian Building, New York Tower Insurance Group, 120 Broadway, New York Trammell-Crow, Paramount, California Valley National Bank, Phoenix West Group, One Bunker Hill, Los Angeles Museum Collections Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Allan Houser Foundation, Permanent Collection, Santa Fe Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Goddard Visual Art Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma Grounds for Sculpture Museum, Hamilton, New Jersey Guild Hall Museum of Art, East Hampton, New York Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee The Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, Colorado Las Vegas Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Nevada Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Norfolk Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Pyramid Hill, Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, Ohio Reading Museum, Reading, PA Runnymede Sculpture Farm, San Francisco Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York The Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia Municipal Collections Ann Arbor City Hall, Ruby Church Memorial, Ann Arbor, Michigan City of Phoenix , Phoenix, Arizona Criminal Court Building , Hartford, Connecticut New York City, New Dorp High School, Staten Island, New York Nyack Plaza Mall, Nyack, New York Pennington Park, Patterson, NJ University Collections Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti Hope College, Holland, Michigan Iowa State University, “In the Art on Campus Collection”, University Museums, Iowa State University at the Gerdin Building, College of Business, Ames, Iowa Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Mitchell Wolfson New World Campus, Miami University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut University of Michigan, School of Dentistry , Ann Arbor University of Michigan, School of Engineering, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor University of the South , Sewanee, Tennessee University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York