“I want the work to relate to objects or images, but to communicate in a non-specific way — and on many levels.”
Brad Barrington has been making art for fifty years. He did graduate work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977–78, where he was awarded a Teaching Assistantship, and works today in clay, bronze, and aluminum from his studio in Dallas–Fort Worth.
A cubed piece of clay altered with cuts, tears, textures and marks can be appreciated for the qualities unique to the medium — and read as visual information suggesting abstract shapes or images. He is drawn to natural phenomena such as the Hoodoos, the rock formations of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.
His Vortex pieces begin in clay and are enlarged and cast into monumental bronze and aluminum. The vortex is an image of intense energy — a metaphor for the human spirit or consciousness, at once a particle and a wave, tangible and intangible. Nikola Tesla developed a 3-6-9 vortex mathematics he believed described the universe. The Meditation Through Time series is an abstraction of imaginary antediluvian landscapes.
Alongside his art, Brad is a Certified Master Builder with four decades in building and development — cities, engineering, permitting, ADA, and project delivery — experience that informs the scale, siting, and fabrication of his monumental work.
In the landscape — a sited Vortex piece, cast aluminum.
Based Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas
Media Clay · Bronze · Aluminum
Contact brad@bradbarrington.com
Instagram @barringtonsculpture
Collaborators Available on request