Barbara Kerwin

Washington, USA. 1964.
Claremont Graduate University, MFA; Painting & Sculpture, Claremont, Ca.,
Washington State University, BFA; Art and Architecture

Kerwin lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work resides in the areas of proportion and measurements found in a lineage including Reinhardt, McGlaughlin, Agnes Martin and her own. Kerwin’s geometric abstraction, with an emphasis on color harmonies and balance, takes a new beat with each exhibition. Kerwin uses a variety of media to achieve her goals for each painting, which include: oil, oil in high melt waxes, or acrylic. These paintings have been called by critics. "sexy", "passionate", and "surfaces to dream on".
Her work has been in over 125 exhibitions and is collected internationally.

*Cows pop out at times and are spontaneously painted. Kerwin grew up on a wilderness cattle ranch. She calls these “lucky totems” when they show up. Some are available here.

Claremont Graduate University, 1995. Painting and Sculpture; (Helen B Dooley Award; All Graduate Universities' selected Fellow, Academic Award.)

Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. BFA Art and Architecture,
Cum Laude

BARBARA KERWIN
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
Reflections, 2023, King Studio, Venice
Transcendental Meditations, Independent Projects, Bishop, Ca
Geometric Progressions,2012, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA ∗∗
Windows, 2008, Ruth Bachofner, LA ∗
Screens, December 2005 -2006, Ruth Bachofner, LA∗∗
Sequence, 2003, Ruth Bachofner, LA∗
Dreaming of Rectangles, 2000- 2001, Ruth Bachofner, LA ∗ ∗∗
Fractured and Factured, 1999, Ruth Bachofner, LA
The Grid, 1997, Ruth Bachofner, LA∗
Constructed Paintings, 1994 CGU
Proof of an Intangible, 1993, CGU
Icons, 1993, CSUN
Abstract Journey, 1988,CSULA

2026 POV Korean CC, LA
—Long Beach Museum of Art, Uncorked!,Long Beach
—VERY WELL READ, LA
2025 Long Beach Museum of Art, 75th Anniversary, Long Beach, CA.
Special Collections II, 515, LA
Event Horizon II, Oxnard College
2024 Special Collections, 515, LA
2023 King Studio, Venice, CA
2021 Counterpoise, 515 LA
—Journeys: Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn NY. Sotheby's, Morgan Falconer
—PAINTING: 2011-2021, Site Brooklyn, "Painting is Undead"
2020. Intersectional History, Woman Made, Chicago, IL.
2019. Zeitgeist Architectonia, Oxnard College
2018 Perfectly Imperfect, Art Slant,
Artillery Magazine, May, Taj Gallery, LA *
2015. Many Mansions, commission for M...