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 spontaneously perceptive 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, and acrylic. These paintings have been called by critics in L.A. "sexy", "passionate", and "surfaces to dream on".
Her work has been in over 110 exhibitions and is collected internationally.

*Occasionally, while making her geometric abstractions, cows may leap out, and some are pictured here. Kerwin’s early years were spent on an expansive, wilderness cattle ranch in the Olympic mountains of Washington state, USA.

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:
2023–“Reflections”, Barbara Kerwin, Virginia Katz, Michael Aschenbrenner-King Studio, Venice, Feb-March 2023
2021–Site:Brooklyn, Art 2011-2021, “Painting is Undead”, Peter Frank Curator.
“Counterpoise” 515–Los Angeles, Kerwin, King, TranLe. Curator, Robert Kingston.
“Journeys” SeeMe, Brooklyn, curator Robert Falconer, Sotheby’s.
2020-Intersectional History, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Ill, February, 2020
2019–Zeitgeist Architectonia, curated by Mela Marsh, McNish Gallery, Oxnard
2018–Transcendental Meditations, two person show. Project Room Bishop, Ca.
“Perfectly Imperfect”. Curated by Jennifer Faist, Los Angeles.
2016– Drawing from the Inside Out, Published, Book Tour and signings. Barbara Kerwin, author. Available on Amazon.
2015--Corporate Collection of 200 LA Artists works on paper, curated by Jay Beloli, exhibition to follow 2016.
2012–GEOMETRIC PROGRESSIONS, solo survey,Pierce Gallery
COVERING GROUND, Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne, Aus
2011–COVERING GROUND, Harris Gallery
Tel-Art-Phone, Beacon Arts,
2008–WINDOWS, Solo show, April/May, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California.*
2006 SCREENS, solo show, December Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica
2003–Sequence, solo Feb-Mar Ruth Bachofner
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