Sadie Barnette*
LOT 1
Typeface 4, 2024
Colored pencil on paper
20 x 16 in
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman
Suggested retail value: $12,000
Starting bid: $8,500
About the Artwork
In Sadie Barnette’s (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘19) new series of drawings, Barnette renders a field of brackets and dots. Parentheses and colons transform into an array of smiling faces—a typesetting hack that uses basic punctuation to explore emotional states. Her conceptual practice often engages language to express big feelings in only a few words or symbols. This series extends Barnette’s interest in vintage technology—seen in works such as her vintage speaker sculptures and an image of a bedazzled calculator—to her drawing practice. Barnette’s wider practice often links her personal and family story to a national and political history through the use of found objects,
glitter, gold frames, text, family photographs, and her father’s (Rodney Barnette) FBI files. Barnette has had solo exhibitions at SFMOMA; San José Museum of Art; The Kitchen, New York; ICA Los Angeles; The Lab, San Francisco; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; MCA San Diego; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA; and the Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; LACMA; Brooklyn Museum; Blanton Museum at University of Texas at Austin; the Walker Art Center, MN and more. She is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Artadia, Art Matters, Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Camargo Foundation in France. Barnette was the inaugural Artist Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Black Studies Collaboratory. Recent commissions include Bay Area Walls at SFMOMA; a permanent, site-specific installation at the Los Angeles International Airport is forthcoming.
HOW TO BID:
Bidding is available from May 19-June 6.
1) Text 'READY TO BID' or call 628-279-6010.
OR
2) Visit the Headlands Auction Exhibition to see the artwork and bid via pencil & paper.