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Barbara Bickart: Pause Triptych

Barbara Bickart: Pause Triptych

SKU: 2021-00041.

This is one grouping from the 170 pieces that are part of PAUSE, a body of work begun in 2017, in response to feeling assaulted these past four years by the lies, violence, and inflammatory misinformation intended to harm. Making this work became a survival strategy; each intimate piece provided a moment of respite. Each stands as an individual moment of Resistance to the rhetoric of hate.

I am an interdisciplinary artist with formal training in the lens-based practices of video/filmmaking and photography. I make art because I like to open conversations. I teach because I want to instigate conversations about how art can be used to make the world a more just place. Most of my professional work as an artist has been grounded in working collaboratively with communities in struggle around issues of social justice. It ranges in form from video installation, video performance, experimental documentary, mixed-media works on paper, and most recently experiments in 3D with books as objects.

I started building a body of work that is mixed-media on paper in 2017 called PAUSE, in response to these tumultuous times, as so many of the things I care about most were under siege. Like so many others, I felt assaulted by the intentional and rapid-fire dissemination of inflammatory misinformation meant to harm certain groups of people by spewing hateful, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and xenophobic rhetoric spread through any number of digital platforms.

As a queer feminist, who came of age as an activist in New York City during the AIDS Crisis when thousands of gay men were dying, and our government turned away from taking proactive steps to save those lives, I am familiar with the experience of feeling assaulted by the actions and inactions of government. As a queer with a mixed-race family, I am familiar with what it feels like to live in a homophobic, misogynistic, racist world. These past four years intensified those feelings and were exhausting, daily. Pausing in this cultural moment has been a vital act of Resistance, prioritizing self-care to be able to engage for the long haul.

Making this body of work became a survival strategy; each small, intimate piece provided a moment of PAUSE and respite. Each stands as an individual moment of Resistance to the lies, violence, and misinformation that caused so much hate-filled chaos. Each stands in opposition to communication intended to harm. I am working with specific, personal materials that are primal on many levels: salt, eggshells, as well as handwritten letters, photographic prints, maps, dictionaries — forms of documentation and communication on the verge of obsolescence that I find beautiful and lyrical, where language, image, and symbol are grounded in accountability and fact.

Category: WomynsWerq. Tags: Collage, drawing, Mixed Media.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Convergence, Herb & Milly Iris Gallery, South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
2014 Monuments, Memory and the Art of Found Choreography, Keynote Address and Screenings of WHEN series,
DOCAM14, three-channel, video projection, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2013 WHEN: Memphis, video projection, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Black Box, Columbus, OH, curated by Jennifer Lange
2013 WHEN: Memphis & WHEN: Philadelphia, three-channel video projection, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 WHEN: Memphis, three-channel, video projection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, curated by Catharina Manchanda
2007 WHEN: Memphis, video projection & performance installation, University of Memphis/Lantana Projects, National Civil
Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
2007 Careful, 1 ? 4, video installation, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado (catalogue)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 20/20 Abstraction, www.i19gallery.com
2019 BLUE, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Hudson, NY
2019 Coaction Collaborative Art Experiment, Maplewood, NJ
2018 Valley Arts Exhibition, Valley Arts, Orange, NJ
2017 Valley Arts Exhibition, Valley Arts, Orange, NJ
2014 Documents Without Borders, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2014 Violence Transformed, Resnikoff Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Gesture (inclusive) An exhibition, Hopkins Hall Art Gallery, Columbus, OH
2009 NJ State Council for the Arts Fellows, Visual Art Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2008-09 From Memphis to Atlanta: The Drum Major Returns Home, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, GA
2007 Ideas in Motion, Boston Cyberarts Festival, MIT, Boston, MA
2007 Careful #5: SALT, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2005 BAAD! Eyes, Careful #1, Bronx Academy of Art and Design, Bronx, NY
2004 NJ State Council for the Arts Fellows, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ (catalogue)
2004 ARM Exhibition, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY

TEACHER
Classroom teacher and teaching artist
Unity Charter School, Morristown, NJ
Visual Art Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
DreamYard Preparatory High School, Bronx, NY
DreamYard Project, Bronx, NY
Bronx Literacy Center, Bronx, NY (Teacher and Assistant Director)
The Door: A Center of Alternatives, New York, NY

CONSULTANT: PROFESSIONAL TRAINER
Provider of professional development training and curriculum on arts & community engagement, arts education, media literacy & communication strategies, youth development, LGBT issues, LGBT adolescent health issues, group facilitation: 2004 – present
Arts Ed Newark, Newark, NJ
Victoria Foundation, Newark, NJ
Hetrick-Martin Institute
Stockton, Rush, Bartol Foundation
New York City Department of Youth and Family Justice
Knights Foundation
West Orange High School
Facing History and Ourselves
New York City Department of Education
National Development Research Institutes, Inc.
New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
New York State Division of AIDS Services
National Gay and Lesbian Health Association

GRANT & FELLOWSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
Artists in Education, Young Audiences of Nj & PA, Princeton, NJ
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD (multiple years)
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Trenton, NJ (multiple years)
Rockefeller Media Fellowship Nominee (Renew), New York, NY
University of Memphis, Fed Ex Institute & Lantana Projects, Memphis, TN
Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, NY (multiple years)
ARM (Artist Resource Media) Fellow, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
FAR Fund for Social Change, New York NY (multiple years)
New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, NY
Dodge Foundation Fellowship for the 47th & 48th International Flaherty Seminar, NJ
ASTRAEA Foundation, New York, NY

LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
Drew University, Madison, NJ 2017
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA 2015
Kent State University, Kent, OH 2014
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA 2011
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2011
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2011
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA 2010
Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ 2010
New Forest Institute, Brooks, ME 2010
Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ 2009
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ 2008
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 2007
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 2007
Community Arts Institute, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2006
New York University, New York, NY 2002

COLLECTIONS
Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY.
Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library, New York, NY.
City University of New York, Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, NY
New York University, School of Social Work Library, New York, NY.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.
The National Archive of Lesbian & Gay History, New York, NY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arts Ed NJ, December, 2018 https://www.artsednj.org/tuscan-school-students-create-and-produce-a-video-performance-installation/
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, January 15, 2019 (https://blog.grdodge.org/2019/01/15/24328/)
Jamie Lynn Drohan, Interview, Comcast Newsmakers, CN8, May 1, 2008.
Carl E. Moore, ‘Shell and Bickart, MOOREART, April 2007.
Carmel Morgan, ‘Barbara Bickart, WHEN, ballet dance magazine; May 2007.
Tod Moe, Interview, North Country Public Radio, Canton, New York, September, 6, 2006.
Sanja Klasje, Virtual QueerNormal Tour,? ’04 MAGAZINE: For Reality Hacking, Issue 10, Zagreb: clubture, October 2005.
Jennifer Dunning, ‘Dance Review; Feeling Whole in a Response to Sept. 11,? New York Times, Arts;
November 12, 2004.
Deborah Jowitt, ‘At Peace, Village VOICE, November 15, 2004.
Ronnie Scheib, I Look Up to the Sky Now,? VARIETY.COM, June 27, 2003.

EDUCATION
MA Media Studies, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY; Departmental Scholar Award
BA English, Rutgers University, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ; Stanton Anthony Scholar

Bibliography furnished upon request
References furnished upon request

size

20in x 6in

medium

eggshell, gouache, graphite, Mixed media on paper, mounted on wood panel, salt

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