Cheryl
Barnett
CB74 “Parted” 2001
cast bronze, edition 7/7
31 x 13 x 3 inches SOLD
Cheryl Barnett: “I choose the figure as my primary focus in sculpture because it has such profound universal identification and mystery."
CB77 “Reminiscence” 2004
1/1, Cast bronze
16 x 4½ x 4½ inches
CB78 “Kimono May” 2004
1/1, Cast bronze,
24 x 7½ x 7½ inches
Two Decades of Exellence
1988-2008
Cheryl Barnett, a California native, creates a highly personal view of the human figure in cast bronze. She says that Henry Moore was a major inspiration in her life. “Through him I realized that the human form had endless possibilities to be re-invented. He tended to abstract through closed form, volume defined visually as solid mass. I abstract through open form, open space defined by concave and convex folded planes. But our goals are the same: to captivate the viewer by the mystery of a spiritual presence hidden inside the bronze.”
Cheryl Barnett at a two-artist exhibition in 2004
Pieces are first sculpted in microcrystalline sculpture wax and then created using the lost wax bronze casting method. Various other shapes are cut from bronze stock. After many hours of welding, grinding, sanding and polishing, a patina is applied that ages the bronze into any number of beautiful colors. This entire process from start to finish requires many hours of hard work, so Barnett usually spends six months to a year to complete each piece, with the life-size works taking several years.
Cheryl has taught art for many years at the college level and has exhibited widely. She received the National Sculpture Prize for “Parted II” (selected from 4,500 entries) during the Cambridge National Prize Exhibition in 1998, juried by Malcolm Rogers of the Fine Arts Museum of Boston.
CB89 “Vessel of the Innocents IV” 2003
1/1 Cast bronze & verdigris patina
6’7” x 1’8” x 1’, base 18” x 12”