Artist Sadie Barnette creates shining multimedia works reflecting on her family history, including The New Eagle Creek Saloon (2019), a glitter-and-neon installation that meditates on the social and political space of the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco, which was operated by her father in the 1990s.
Barnette’s practice mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States while illuminating her own family history. The youngest of her generation, Barnette holds a long and deep fascination with the personal and political value of kin. Her use of abstraction, glitter, and the fantastical summons another dimension of human experience and imagination.
Join us for this Mack Lecture to learn more about her artistic practice and major projects like The New Eagle Creek Saloon.
Free tickets available starting at 5 pm from the Main Lobby desk.
Bio
Sadie Barnette (b. 1984, Oakland, CA) has a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from University of California, San Diego. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York; Pomona College, Los Angeles and Pitzer College Art Galleries, Los Angeles; ICA Los Angeles, The Lab, San Francisco; the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; MCA San Diego; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA; and the Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis.
Accessibility
This program will have ASL interpretation.
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