Whitney Barrett
Whitney Barrett
April 18 ~ June 14
Join us on 3rd Friday Gallery Night April 18 and May 16 from 5-7pm for opening receptions and to meet the artist
In the artist’s first solo show, Whitney Barrett presents paper collages and mixed media paintings using intricate line drawings of anamorphic female figures along with hand stamped papers, gel prints, colored tissue paper, found words, and book pages from romance novels. These new artworks continue a series Barrett has explored for the past two decades creating visual metaphors to express her main interest: communication.
The artist’s love of fairy tales, wonder tales, myths, and legends, combines with ideas about hetero-normitave relationships, gendered expectations, female rage, patronization, fetishization and absurdity, to create the figures which dominate the narratives of Barrett’s work. These figures assume the role of “characters” in an ongoing story as revealed by the artist. Figures in all the works refer to each other with a collective visual language of a red circle on her cheeks, the lines of her face emphasizing expressive eyes and feminine lips, wearing bulky sweaters, rounded dresses or pants, and each figure with their own (some more, some less) of animal features: such as feathers, fox tails, hedgehog hoodies, cat ears, antlers, bare feet, bird feet, no feet and eight legs, or tiny red boots and shoes.
Artworks in the Show
A typical miss, 2025
paper collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Beauty is a gift to the eyes , 2025
paper collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Blue Tree, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 36 x 31 in
$1400
Checked Hood, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 20 x 16 in
$500
Checked Hood, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 20 x 16 in
$500
Damned interfering little bitch!, 2025
paper collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Deer Horns, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 12 x 9 in
$180
Filling both hands with, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Fondling is not groping, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Fox Sweater, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 8 x 8 in
$150
Foxtail, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 8 x 8 in
Sold
Hedgehog, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 16 x 12 in
Sold
Her temper was well flown..., 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
Sold
I like you naked, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
“I shall most likely cut his throat in the night!”, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
Sold
I want you enough for both of us, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
It must be intoxicating, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
Sold
Liar liar pants on fire, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Marvin will cut your balls off, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
No she muttered beneath her breath, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Orange Chrysanthemums, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 16 x 12 in
$260
Patterned Feathers, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 20 x 16 in
$500
Peacock, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 12 x 9 in
Sold
Penelope was rather silly and vein, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Rain Cloud, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 20 x 16 in
$400
Ram Horns, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 12 x 9 in
$180
Red Beetle, 2023
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 36 x 24 in
$1200
She wanted to vomit, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
So she died happy, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
“Such a mouthy little wench,”, 2025
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
The movement drew his gaze, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
The warm softness of her body, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
This was probably how fetishes started, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
To beat a metaphor to death, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
Sold
Tutu, 2024
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 30 x 24 in
$900
Unicorn, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 12 x 9 in
$180
Yellow Submarine, 2025
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 20 x 16 in
$500
Yellow Tree, 2023
acrylic and pen with collage on canvas, 30 x 24 in
$900
You leave her tits alone, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
Well that was awkward, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
$90
You’re not a very nice girl, 2023
collage, 12 x 9 in
Sold
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