Barrette is an artist, curator, photographer and art writer.

He was also a studio assistant for sculptor Eva Hesse, after whom he later wrote a book on her work.

Barrette has exhibited at Apex Gallery NY; Philadelphia Art Alliance PA; Lieberman & Saul Gallery NY; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum CT; Touchstone Gallery NY; Jaffe-Friede & Strauss; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; and Fiction/Nonfiction Gallery NY where he exhibited with Polly Apfelbaum and Nancy Shaver.

His works shown at Fiction/Nonfiction, where this work was probably exhibited, were decribed as “sculptural wall constructions that incorporate enlarged daguerrotypes and viewing devices”.

His work “Anonymous Child #26” is in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Samantha Hoover wrote in Thesholds Magazine: “The work of Bill Barrette is comprised of three-dimensional structures, embedded with anonymous daguerreotype portraits. Much of Barrette's artwork of the 1980s refers to the mechanics of cameras and lenses, reminding the viewer of the invention of photography, or perhaps the camera obscura, and its rudimentary box-like structure. An example of Barrette's use of the box structure is found in Anonymous Child, 1989, in which lenses are attached to each photograph, forcing the viewer to walk around each photograph, peer through the lens, and experience it as a three-dimensional object. Anonymous Child is reminiscent of Sol LeWitt's open and mathematical use of space in his box-like structures. Hence, Barrette has taken the manufactured look of the minimalist box and personalized it, or given it aura in the Beniaminian sense, with the embedding of old and original photographs.

Mixed media construction with antique photograph, wood, galvanized metal, optical lens and paint.

Inscribed on reverse Anonymous Woman #10, 1986.

Measures 39 3/4" x 17 3/4" x 6 1/2".

Very good condition.

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