A painter and mixed media artist, Barb Whitney uses her work as a medium for processing her emotions, perceptions and memories. Each piece she creates reflects her journey from questioning to understanding to acceptance.
Her training is academic (B.A. Kalamazoo College), her process is highly intuitive. Barb finds inspiration in creating abstract color studies, which feature interplay of light and shadow and positive versus negative space.
Barb feels strongly connected to the act of applying paint to canvas; however, she is often called to go further, slicing her work into sections and then stitching back together, suspending the pieces within one another to tell a deeper story.
In this current series entitled Transfiguration, Barb explores the concepts of creation and destruction; endurance and perseverance; purpose and salvage.
Ultimately, Barb hopes her work invokes both feeling and thought in viewers and creates an opportunity and desire for discussion and interaction with others.
