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SADIE BARNETTE PORTFOLIO SADIE BARNETTE Sadie Barnette (b. 1984, Oakland, CA) Lives and works in Oakland, CA BFA - California Institute of the Arts MFA - UC San Diego Artist in Residence Studio Museum in Harlem - 2015 Solo Museum Exhibitions Legacy & Legend - Benton Museum of Art in conjunction with the Pitzer College Art Galleries (2021) The New Eagle Creek Saloon - Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019) - The Lab, San Francisco (2019) Phone Home - Museum of the African Diaspora (2019) Dear 1968,… - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2018) - Haverford College (2017) - Manetti-Shrem Museum @ UC Davis (2017) Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2018) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2018) Brooklyn Museum (2018) Marciano Foundation (2018) Studio Museum in Harlem (2015/2018) Berkeley Art Museum (2018) Pérez Art Museum (2016) Blanton Museum of Art at UT Austin (2017) California African American Museum (CAAM)(2017) Haverford College (2018) Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College (CFAM)(2017) JP Morgan & Chase Collection (2019) Oakland Museum of California (2020) MCA San Diego (2019 SADIE BARNETTE BIO / STATEMENT Whether in the form of drawing, photography or large-scale installation, Sadie Barnette’s (b. 1984, Oakland, CA) work relishes in the abstraction of city space and the transcendence of the mundane to the imaginative. She creates visual compositions that engage a hybrid aesthetic of minimalism and density, using text, glitter, family Polaroids, subculture codes and found objects. Recent works engage as primary source material the 500-page FBI surveillance file kept on her father, Rodney Barnette, who founded the Compton, California, chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968. In the artist’s hands these repressive documents are reclaimed — splashed with pink spray paint and adorned with crystals — in an intergenerational assertion of the power of the personal as political. Barnette’s work deals in the currency of the real, in earthly acts of celebration and resistance, but is also tethered to the other-worldly, a speculative fiction, a galactic escape. As the artist says, “This is abstraction in service of everyday magic and survival in America.” Sadie Barnette (b. 1984, Oakland, CA) has a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from University of California, San Diego. She has been awarded grants and residencies by the Studio Museum in Harlem, Artadia, Art Matters, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Carmago Foundation in France. She has had solo shows in the following public institutions: ICA Los Angeles, The Lab and the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; MCA San Diego, CA; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA; and the Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis. Her work is in the permanent collections of: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Brooklyn Museum, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Guggenheim Museum, NY; MCA San Diego; JP Morgan Chase Collection; Blanton Museum at UT Austin, TX; Cornell Fine Arts Museum; and the Berkeley Art Museum, CA. Barnette lives and works in Oakland, CA. She is represented by Charlie James Gallery and Jessica Silverman. More Alive SADIE BARNETTE Art Basel Miami Beach OVR 2020 Installation at Charlie James Gallery, 2020 Charlie James Gallery presented a solo presentation of works by Sadie Barnette titled More Alive, featuring six new 45 x 36 inch powdered graphite on paper drawings and three new photo-based works at the same scale for Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach 2020. Barnette’s six new works from her “Text Compositions” series employ a playful, familiar visual design sensibility in depicting phrases and words that appeal to ideas of community, agency, and resilience. Phrases such as We All We Got, Together, Change, People in Motion, and More Alive provide a chorus of affirmation in direct response to the contemporary moment. Barnette’s photo-based works operate in ways similar to collage, typically bringing together images from the physical world with suggestions of celestial transcendence. More Alive SADIE BARNETTE Art Basel Miami Beach OVR 2020 Installation at Charlie James Gallery, 2020 More Alive SADIE BARNETTE Art Basel Miami Beach OVR 2020 Installation at Charlie James Gallery, 2020 In Plain Sight SADIE BARNETTE at Henry Art Gallery 2020 Installation at Henry Art Gallery, 2020 The group exhibition In Plain Sight engages artists whose work addresses narratives, communities, and histories that are typically hidden or invisible in our public space (both conceptually and literally defined). The presenting artists approach the exhibition’s theme from a range of directions, varying across all media as well as aesthetic and conceptual contexts. Works encompass deliberately activist endeavors and direct documentation; the unpacking of individual histories excluded due to race, ethnicity, or class; explorations of coded language for protection, secrecy, or both; the illumination of invisible or covert systems of labor, exploitation, and capitalist control; and translation through surreal, oblique, or fantastical frameworks. In Plain Sight SADIE BARNETTE at Henry Art Gallery 2020 Installation at Henry Art Gallery, 2020 Collective Constellation: Selections SADIE BARNETTE from The Eileen Harris Norton Collection at Art + Practice 2020 Installation at Art + Practice, 2020 Sadie Barnette’s work is exhibited in Collective Constellation, which features a selection of artworks by women of color from the personal art collection of philanthropist, art collector and Art + Practice co-founder, Eileen Harris Norton. The exhibition extends into the A+P Project Room with an interactive installation entitled FAMILY STYLE by Sadie Barnette. Collective Constellation: Selections SADIE BARNETTE from The Eileen Harris Norton Collection at Art + Practice 2020 Installation at Art + Practice, 2020 The New Eagle Creek Saloon SADIE BARNETTE at the ICA LA / The Lab 2019 Sadie Barnette’s installation reimagines her father’s bar – the first black-owned gay bar in San Francisco. From 1990-93 Rodney Barnette operated the New Eagle Creek Saloon, a family-run business which served a multiracial gay community marginalized by the racist profiling practices of San Francisco’s bar scene at that time. Sadie Barnette’s project is two-fold: to re-present The New Eagle Creek Saloon as an archival installation via her own vernacular aesthetic, and to host a “bar” and queer social space where everyone is invited to participate in ongoing acts of resistance, celebration, activism, and community building. Installation at the Lab 2019 The New Eagle Creek Saloon SADIE BARNETTE at the ICA LA / The Lab 2019 Installation at the ICA LA 2019 California Artists SADIE BARNETTE at Marciano Art Foundation 2019 Installation at Marciano Art Foundation 2019 California Artists SADIE BARNETTE at Marciano Art Foundation 2019 Installation at Marciano Art Foundation 2019 The Armory Show SADIE BARNETTE 2019 Installation at the Armory Show 2019 The Armory Show and Athena Art Finance Corp. awarded Charlie James Gallery the third annual Presents Booth Prize for its exemplary presentation of works by Sadie Barnette. The Armory Show SADIE BARNETTE 2019 Installation at the Armory Show 2019 PHONE HOME at SADIE BARNETTE Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 2019 Installation at Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 2019 Glittering in gold and platinum, the work of Sadie Barnette illuminates relics of a past deeply rooted in West Coast aesthetics and politics. A former artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Barnette presents this installation as an example of a continuous exchange between two centers of Black artistic production. Sculptural speakers, “candy-coated” in holographic car paint, act as both shield and beacon, as the inflection of prismatic light envelops vestiges of her childhood in the Bay Area. With bejeweled offerings of Black power politics and celestial revelry, PHONE HOME provides a refuge for those seeking moments of comfort in the reflection of their own light. PHONE HOME at SADIE BARNETTE Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 2019 Installation at Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 2019 PHONE HOME at SADIE BARNETTE Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 2019 Installation at Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) 2019 Black Sky at SADIE BARNETTE Charlie James Gallery 2018 For her second solo show at CJG titled BLACK SKY, Sadie Barnette presented a combination of objects and installation across two floors of the gallery space. Barnette continued to explore and reappropriate her family history, using elements of her father’s FBI file as well as rephotographed photographic images. In the gallery’s basement project space Barnette created an immersive installation that conflates domestic space with an imagined, futuristic space. Black Sky at SADIE BARNETTE Charlie James Gallery 2018 Installation at Charlie James Gallery 2018 Black Sky at SADIE BARNETTE Charlie James Gallery 2018 Installation at Charlie James Gallery 2018 Sadie Barnette CHARLIE JAMES GALLERY In Sadie Barnette’s photographic collage Untitled (Pink Diamond/ Jump), 2016, the gleaming facets of a pink diamond adjoin the upper torso of a young black girl playing in a bounce house. Part of the artist’s recent solo presentation, evocatively titled “Black Sky,” this image contains references to stereotypical girl culture and class aspiration, both of which were consistently and vibrantly invoked throughout Barnette’s expansive, multiroom installation. The upper gallery featured paintings, photographs, collages,