David Barnett Mixed Media

2006 trip to Rome and Florence had a tremendous impact on my work.

Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...

Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...

Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...

Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...

Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...

‘Miami Crypto-Man: Homage to Magritte’ is a mixed-media collage by the Milwaukee-based artist and gallerist David Barnett. In this artwork, Barnett brings references to René Magritte, the contemporary art world, and also technology and cryptocurrency. As Barnett describes: “This series was born out of my visit to Art Basel and the Miami Art fair in 2019 to which I wore this aqua-colored linen sport coat. Over the course of my five-day visit to the fairs, at least 50 people came to me and asked where I bought the sport coat. They all wanted to buy one! I was quite amused and flattered. I thought to myself that this should be the basis for a new art series called "the Miami Man." My plan was to purchase twenty-five or thirty sport coats, but upon my return to Milwaukee I discovered they were no longer available in the aqua color. As an alternative, we photographed the sport coat, front and back, and printed it in several sizes on archival watercolor paper as well as on canvas. The sizes range from only nine inches tall all the way to forty inches tall. “For this work from the series, I decided to add a Magritte-like element by using a sand dollar. In his paintings, Magritte often obscured the face of his figures with objects like apples. Here, however, I have done the same using a sand dollar. This sand dollar is the one that I dove for when I was on the gulf coast of Florida more than 40 years ago. I also added to the title "crypto" to this work because of the sand dollar, tying this very natural object to the new advent of cryptocurrency. So the official new title of the series is "Miami Crypto-Man." In addition, I added a vintage post card...

David Barnett’s ‘Four Kisses on a Passionate Sea Variation’ is a piece of almost disarming delicacy. Against a luminous evening sky of slowly evolving colors, a line of four red clou...

"Radio and Bowlers in the Cloud" is a work by David Barnett inspired by the surrealist works of René Magritte in conjunction with the David Barnett Gallery's 2020 exhibition of Magritte lithographs. In this artwork, Barnett references this past master, but also contemporary technology by making bowler hats dance across the cloud-filled sky above an antique GE...

"Homage to Rene Magritte" is a mixed media piece on watercolor paper by David Barnett. The piece incorporates a scan of Magritte's "La Comtesse de Monte Cristo" that was printed on w...

"Think Spring" is a mixed media, watercolor and iridescent acrylic piece by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower left. The piece is an explosion of color and texture with man...

"Ten Commandments" is an original mixed media painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. It features imagery associated with the Jewish faith on a brightly colored backgro...