Brian Barreto
Dixon, NM
Semana
Colorado Yule marble
12" x 10" x 4"
2024
$500
About
Drawn to unforgiving media, Brian Barreto has worked with glass, ceramics, performance, and sound- but stone, marble in particular has always been the challenger, wrecker of wrists, the first love.
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Brian apprenticed sculpture in Germany and the US, they furthered their studies at the University of Wisconsin. Brian continues to build upon their understanding through research and interviews, ongoing curatorial and collaborative projects, teaching, forging their own tools, and developing more sustainable methods of art production in their studio art practice.
Brian has exhibited their work in the United States and Europe, and is committed to creating further opportunities for artists and researchers in their community through the Alluvial Project. Initiated in 2022, Alluvial is an artist-run gallery, curatorial forum, and Artist-In-Residence program near Taos in Rinconada, NM.
Artist Statement
A mixed race multimedia artist primarily sculpting in marble, Brian Barreto pursues the human form as a locus between identity, gender, and the inimitable joy of belonging. A parallel practice of abstraction is founded upon listening — investigating the musicality of repetition and multiplicity in open edition works. Current series explore transformational bodyscapes, migration, reliquary, longform engagements, and cultural fragmentation often re-contextualizing historical canon into a contemporary discourse.
Art from Brian Barreto in other TAAC exhibitions