Born in California, Bill Barrett moved to New York after being awarded an MFA at
the University of Michigan School of Art. Working primarily in bronze and
aluminum, his work is represented in over 40 museum and university collections,
including several major outdoor commissions for public sculpture. In 1986 he won the Reynolds Memorial Award for "outstanding aluminum sculpture by an
American artist." Mr Barrett continues to live and work in both New York City and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"Bill Barrett's sculpture belongs to the classic line of American modernism - the
line that stems from Cubism but that has accomodated the more romantic
gestures of Abstract Expressionism...Underlying all Barrett's welded metal
constructions there is a clarity of form and a firmness of structure that give them
their monumental quality. But this is played against angles, twists, and curves that create a strong emotional content. It is the sculptor's control of these formal
tensions, the admirable balance he maintains between them, that give his art its
warmth and humanity, and that raises it above the esthetics of minimalism."

John I.H. Baur
Director Emeritus
Whitney Museum of American Art