Artist Bio:
Gabrielle Barnett is a lens-based artist working across photography/video, printmaking, and sculpture to explore body image, desirability, and societal expectations. Through materiality and process, she examines how meaning transforms across media, using texture and form to challenge conventional ideals of beauty, function, and identity. Rooted in fat studies, feminism, and motherhood, her current body of work, Desire Body, engages surfaces and materials that evoke seduction, indulgence, and perfection. Her work considers how body image, trauma, and self-worth are inherited—passed through generations in subtle gestures, unspoken lessons, and cultural memory. Relief carvings echo bodily imperfections, reinforcing the artist’s hand, while immersive installations and moving surfaces explore visibility, erasure, and self-perception. Drawing from feminist and conceptual art traditions, she challenges viewers to reconsider the body’s role in contemporary culture.
Gabrielle Barnett is a lens-based artist working across photography/video, printmaking, and sculpture to explore body image, desirability, and societal expectations. Through materiality and process, she examines how meaning transforms across media, using texture and form to challenge conventional ideals of beauty, function, and identity. Rooted in fat studies, feminism, and motherhood, her current body of work, Desire Body, engages surfaces and materials that evoke seduction, indulgence, and perfection. Her work considers how body image, trauma, and self-worth are inherited—passed through generations in subtle gestures, unspoken lessons, and cultural memory. Relief carvings echo bodily imperfections, reinforcing the artist’s hand, while immersive installations and moving surfaces explore visibility, erasure, and self-perception. Drawing from feminist and conceptual art traditions, she challenges viewers to reconsider the body’s role in contemporary culture.
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