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- Barnette has a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from University of California, San Diego.
- Sadie Barnette (born 1984), is an American artist who works primarily with drawing, photography, and large-scale installation.
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Across Space and Time: An Interview with Sadie Barnette
Sadie Barnette, Untitled (Pointing in pink), 2017 (detail); © Sadie Barnette
Oakland-based artist Sadie Barnette brings together family photographs, images of otherworldly everyday objects, and text-based drawings to reflect on Black legacies and collective possibilities across space and time. Her recent work connects found images, bright glittery surfaces, text, and graphite drawings to uncover new dimensions of her father Rodney Barnette’s history as an activist, who founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s and opened San Francisco’s first Black-owned gay bar in 1990. Barnette recently spoke with us about her role as family historian, her new Bay Area Walls commission, and how the color pink can be used to reclaim history.
See Barnette’s commission on Floor 5 from October 15, 2022–June 2023
SFMOMA: How did you approach your Bay Area Walls commission, and how does it relate to your larger body of work?
Sadie Barnette: Thinking about the Bay Area Walls commiss
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Sadie Barnette
Sadie Barnette’s practice is unconfined to a particular medium and often uses a mix of material approaches in tandem or juxtaposition, as if to complicate or undo each other. Her drawings, photographs, and installations collapse time and expand historical possibilities by syncing her own family photos, motifs of outdated technologies, text, mundane cityscapes, and glittering abstractions into a visual vocabulary.
Barnette was born and raised in Oakland and holds a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from UC San Diego. She has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as The Kitchen in New York City, ICA Los Angeles, SFMoMA, and Walker Art Center. Her work is in permanent collections at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim, LACMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, The Walker, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Barnette is the recipient of grants and residencies including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Artadia, Art Matters, Eureka Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Headlands Center for the A
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