Artist and Bard MFA Executive Director Hannah Barrett’s Current Exhibition Reviewed in Hyperallergic
Hannah Barrett in front of (left) “First Draft” (2018) and (right) “The Dark House” (2020). Photo by Shelley Marlow
Executive Director of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Hannah Barrett’s current exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, features paintings of “dandy monsters”—sartorial nongendered creatures from the artist’s imagination set in both bureaucratic and fantastical scenery. The portrayal of gender ambiguity has driven Barrett’s painting for over a decade, leading to their current portraits of these whimsical monsters. “Barrett’s monsters subvert the gender binary by combining masculine dandy finery with high femme elements; the paintings serve up a new representation of the nonbinary (as in both ‘not subscribing to binaries’ and ‘my gender is none of your business’),” writes Shelley Marlow for Hyperallergic.
Post Date: 08-01-2023
Post Date: 08-01-2023