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Barrie Baer Kaufman ’72: Alumni Reunion Weekend Artist

About the Artist

Barrie Baer Kaufman ’72 is a West Virginia artist working in the media of sculpture, painting, and printmaking. Kaufman has exhibited internationally at Sotheby’s Stockholm, 5th and 10th International Print Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan where she won the Taipei City Mayors Award and Press Papier, Trois Riviers, Quebec. She has won awards and grants from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, The Mid Atlantic Foundation Fellowship for The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the West Virginia Artist Of the year 2014, West Virginia Fellowship for Painting and Crafts, and a residency at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. Kaufman has had one-woman shows at The Juliet Museum of Art, Charleston, WV, The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, The Pittsburgh Center for The Arts, and participated in SOFA Chicago, 2015. She has work in the permanent collections of The Taipei Fine Art Museum, Rutgers University, University of Charleston, WV, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, The Juliet Museum of Art, WV, The West Virginia Symphony, and The State of West Virginia permanent collection.


Artist Statement

"Stories of the natural world, its beauty, and current imbalance inform my work. I use ceramics, glass, painting, and printmaking processes to tell an environmental story. I find inspiration in fungi, seed pods, ferns, and all the forms that can be found in the Appalachian woods. I have been working and thinking about water since my town, Charleston, WV, had an environmental water crisis in 2014. The emphasis in my practice on water was also impacted by the “thousand year flood” of the Elk River in which so many died. Large pallet sculptures, small ceramics, and cast glass pieces reflect the jumble of trees, houses, and debris that were found along the Elk River. A series of glass animals on poles are my commentary on global warming and the effect it has had on our forest animals. To me everything is upside down right now and needs to be righted."
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