CΔCHING OUT @ Manetti Shrem Museum
"...My interest in minimalism and conceptualism informs the way I look at my family, our history, subculture coding, celebration and resistance. I engage a hybrid aesthetic of minimalism and density, using text, glitter and found objects to demonstrate the necessity for poetry and abstraction in urban life and the power of the personal as political..." -Sadie Barnette, artist statement, 2016 The newest art museum in the University of California system, the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis, has delivered a politically and personally charged exhibit of Oakland and Compton based artist, Sadie Barnette. Barnette’s first solo museum showcase Dear 1968,... is located in an isolated space within the museum, and fully utilizes all four walls to enact meaning and make public the narrative of her family’s history, and specifically her father, Rodney Barnette’s close involvement with the Black Panther Party. Dear 1968,... is a comprehensive exhibit ...
