Selected Exhibitions:
* Denotes Solo Exhibit
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2009 |
United CAT One Year Anniversary, Chuckwa, Fullerton, CA
"When I grow up..." - Art Auction for the Museum School , Seminal Projects Gallery, San Diego,CA Art Around Adams, Lestat's, San Diego, CA *CITYBEAT ART ON LOCATION PRESENTS BRET BARRETT AT SODA BAR, Soda Bar, San Diego, CA United CAT Show, Chuckwa, Fullerton, CA CLOWNTOWN, California State University Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA. Featuring my collaborations with Dark Vomit + Extremo the Clown & Mulder 142. Gaslamp Art Showcase, The Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA Poison Apples And Glass Slippers, Junc Boutique, San Diego, CA Me and My Robot: San Diego and Tijuana Contemporary Art, The Red House Gallery, Bayfield, CO Artability: A Mosaic Of Human Creativity, UCSD Cross Cultural Center, La Jolla, CA Idol Worship, Art Of Framing, San Diego, CA 3 Cover Artists, David Russell Talbott, Kelly Hutchison, Bret Barrett, Art Of Framing, San Diego, CA |
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2008 |
* An Ecclectric Body Of New Work, Art Of Framing, San Diego, CA 100 For 100, Samara Studio, Milwaukee, WI North Park Art Show, Caffe Forte, San Diego, CA Altars And Icons, Junc Boutique, San Diego, CA Democracy, Pop, San Diego, CA Art For Change, Art Of Framing Gallery, San Diego, CA Kinetic Collage, Lestat's, San Diego, CA Lowbrow Gallery, (collaborative piece with Kelly Hutchison) - Monster Mayhem - Atlanta, GA - June 2008 Earthday Avengers, Lestat's, San Diego, CA Arp-Types, Lestat's, San Diego, CA Copy, Simayspace Gallery, San Diego, CA Alternate Realities, Kelly Hutchison and Bret Barrett, The Rubber Rose Gallery, San Diego, CA Heavy Press Show, San Diego, CA Endeavor, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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2007 |
Group Show, Blue Foot, San Diego, CA San Diego Fire Victims Benefit, Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA Family, Planet Rooth Gallery, San Diego, CA Alienated, Group Show, Art Of Framing Gallery, San Diego, CA Save The Planet Art Auction, Planet Rooth Gallery, San Diego, CA Over-Caffeinated, Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA Gentleman's Loafer International Art Show, Art Of Framing Gallery, San Diego, CA Summer Feature, Fish Out of Water Gallery, San Diego, CA Forward Motion, Zedism Gallery, San Diego, CA Pure Enjoyment, Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA Tenacious, Zedism Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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2006 |
* New Art Site, Artstrux, World Wide Web, Featured Artist of 2006 Variegate, Rotating base constructed for the Xdrop dance company for a performance at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA |
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2005 |
Art Fair, Arts and Entertainment Center, San Diego, CA * Moving Parts Improvisation, Collaboration with the Inclusion dance company, Performed at the Celebrate Dance Festival in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA |
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2004 |
Shape Shifters, Collaboration with glass artist Jake Burkesmith, Expressive Arts Institute, San Diego, CA * Moving Parts Improvisation, Collaboration with the Inclusion dance company, Performed at the Celebrate Dance Festival in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA |
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2003 |
Machine Shop Show, Collaboration with the Inclusion dance company, San Diego State University in conjuction with the SDSU Arts (un)Plugged Festival, Coordinated by SDSU Center for the Visual & Performing Arts, San Diego, CA |
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2001 |
* Autoerotica, The Other Side, San Diego, CA |
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2000 |
* Off Into The Sunset Show, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI Artwalk 2000, Riverwest Artists Association open Studio tour, Barn9, Milwaukee, WI |
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1999 |
Film Roman-Level 13-Rico Gallery Fine Arts Competition Exhibition, Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Juried by Film Roman, Level 13, and Julie Rico 4th Annual Beauty Benefit for the Arts, Beauty, Milwaukee, WI If You Will Art Exhibition, The 808 Space, Milwaukee, WI Artwalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI |
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1998 |
3rd Annual Beauty Benefit for the Arts, Beauty, Milwaukee, WI Do Yobi Collection, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI Adventures in Hobbyland, Riverwest Art Center, Milwaukee, WI |
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1997 |
deus ex machina, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI Art & Architecture, Washington Heights Neighborhood, Milwaukee, WI Towards 2000/Art for a New Millenium, Milwaukee School of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI Zooid, VRML Interactive Environment, Developed by Christopher Raymond and Bret J. Barrett, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI Artwalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI |
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1996 |
Barn9 Online, Grand Opening of the Barn9 Virtual Internet Gallery, Developed by Christopher Raymond and Bret J. Barrett Nux Vomica, Art, Music, and Film Show, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI Allied Artists Group Exhibition, The Window Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Mysticism and Fantasy, Riverwest Art Center, Milwaukee, WI The Ignorant Truth, Exploring Racism and Differnces, Riverwest Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Barn9 From Outer Space, alien abduction, cattle mutilation, invasive probes... art, film, and music, Barn9 Actual, Milwaukee, WI Cat Show, Riverwest Art Center, Milwaukee, WI New Board New Work Show, Riverwest Art Center, Milwaukee, WI |
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1995 |
Dreams and Visions, Milkwaukee School of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI Artwalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, BarnStorm Art Studio, Milwaukee, WI Hideous Savant, Dual Art and Sound Show, BarnStorm Art Studio, Milwaukee, WI |
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1994 |
ArtWalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, Barnstorm Art Studio, Milwaukee, WI TADA Collaboration Show, Metropolitan Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Degenerate and Outsider Art in the Cultural Mecca of Milwaukee, Fine Arts Gallery, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI * Barnic Runes, Artistry Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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1993 |
ArtWalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, Barnstorm Art Studio, Milwaukee, WI Art in Celebration of the Season, Gallery 451, Rockford, IL Leave 'Em Laughing, Gallery 10, Rockford, IL Earth, Arc East Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Barn Burner; Barn Storm Art Show, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI * New Work Preview, Cabachon Design Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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1992 |
ArtWalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, Barnstorm Art Studio, Milwaukee, WI Artwalk Windows, Installation, Pulaski Building, Third Ward, Milwaukee, WI * Autoerotica, Cabachon Design Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Locust Street Art Festival, Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI Third Ward Windows on Fire, Installation, 218 S. Water St., Milwaukee, WI Metropolitan Takes a Sabbatical, Metropolitan Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Zwie Tu of China, Hideki Matsumoto of Japan, Bret Barrett of Milwaukee, Metropolitan Gallery, Milwaukee, WI RWAA one piece membership show, Gallery 218, Milwaukee, WI |
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1991 |
ArtWalk, Riverwest Artists Association open studio tour, Barnstorm Art Studio, Milwaukee, WI New Gallery Artists Show, Metropolitan Gallery, Milwaukee, WI One Week Peek, Interdisciplinary show, Milwaukee, WI Locust Street Art Festival, Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI The Wood Show, Metropolitan Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
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1990 |
* Conservation Exhibit, Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee, WI Earth Day, Mitchell Park Domes, Milwaukee, WI What Was... Is, Reuss Federal Plaza, Firestation Gallery, sponsored by the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works, Milwaukee, WI |
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1988 |
Capitalist Tool Art Party, Beirsachs Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Processes, Union Art Gallery, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Four From Another State, Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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1987 |
Artrageous, Wright Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Annual Student juried exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
Articles and Reviews :
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San Diego City Beat, "The Art Of Energy", by Kinsee Morlan - December 3, 2008 Michele Guieu.blogspot, "Bret J. Barrett At Caffe Forte", November 12, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune, "Curator strives for an 'Alice in Wonderland' feel to exhibit at Sumayspace", Robert Pincus - March 30, 2008 Art as Authority, "San Diego Round-up Part I: "Tenacious" Zedism Gallery - Normal Heights", Kevin Freitas - May 19, 2007 Art Muscle, "Post Facto", Nick Frank - September, 1996 Art Muscle, "Wild Things", Nick Frank - August, 1995 City Edition, "Degenerate Art Returns to Milwaukee, Dave Luhrssen - July 21, 1994 Art Muscle, "Degnerate Art In...", Deonne Jahnke - August, 1994 Shepherd Express, "TA DA is at the Met", Jimmy Von Milwaukee - September 22, 1994 Milwaukee Journal, "UWM Show Thumbs Nose At Propriety", James Auer - June, 1994 Shepherd Express, "Art Walk", Jimmy Von Milwaukee - October 20, 1993 East Side News, "Do The Walk", Tim Ladwig - October, 1993 Milwaukee Journal, "Gang Of Four", James Auer - April 23, 1993 Shepherd Express, "I-Ching and the Third Ward Windows", Jimmy Von Milwaukee - August 20, 2002 Shepherd Express, "Art By The Square Inch: Examining the Metropolitan's Finale for '92", Jimmy Von Milwaukee - July 23, 1992 Wisconsin Magazine, "Sculptor Finds Creative Ways To Slash Costs", Susan Firebaugh - June 2, 1991 Shepherd Express, "Wood Show Pays Homage To The Forest", Jeff Worman - February 21, 1991 Milwaukee Sentinel, "Art Comes Out Of The Wood Work", Janice T. Paine - March 15, 1991 Shepherd Express, "ReArt", Jeff Worman - February 1, 1990 Art Muscle, "Group Show", Debra Brehmer - September 15, 1988 UWM Post, "Dark Humor Turns on Wright Street", Rand Burkert - May 5, 1987 Milwaukee Journal, "Briefly Viewed", James Auer - May 31, 1987 |
Selected Quotes:
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"Bret J. Barrett exhibits three Surrealist inspired paintings, beautifully executed, colorful, humourous and rich in imagery. Wafts of Roberto Matta weave their way through Barrett’s canvases – we bathe in the results." - Kevin Freitas, http://www.artasauthority.com, May 2007 "Bret Barrett is at it again. His seven sculptures were a bestiary of calculated whimsy, ranging from tongue flapping cows, lurching dervishes, and toothsome fish-lures to bird machines and horned acrobats. This work never fails to throw expectations into pleasant disarray, undercutting the usual audience preconceptions of art world snobbery. ‘Work makes Life Sweet’, an iron-clad self-pounding hammer mechanism, drew Barrett's concerns into a concise and endearingly profound package." - Nick Frank, “Post Facto”, Art Muscle, September, 1996. "Barrett's ‘Winged Agony Or Freedom Flight’ is a machine-like sculpture combining elements of the natural world with Rube Goldberg mechanics, much like a tree sprouting pistons instead of branches." - Dave Luhrssen, “Degenerate Art Returns to Milwaukee”, City Edition, July 21, 1994. "Barrett's work... says quite a lot about our mechanistic society. Women's heads whir in tandem with men's, but you know the rhythms are wrong." - James Auer, “UWM Show Thumbs Nose At Propriety”, Milwaukee Journal, June, 1994. "The... wonderfully animated contraptions by Barrett, assembled from rubber, metal, plastics odds and ends, with whimsical (and sometimes sinister) lives of their own. His ‘The Man And The Woman And The Blackbird Are One’, combined a mixed media painting with three motorized sculptures that could be activated separately or together, thus creating some engaging interaction." - Deonne Jahnke, “Degenerate Art In...”, Art Muscle, August, 1994. "Getting back to earth is Bret Barrett's ‘Man-N-The Trees’, a kinetic sculpture that resembles a rocking chair with wooden doodad-like branches. Sort of like Paul Bunyon meets Jean Tinguely, this work’s fanciful formation makes you giggle." - Jimmy Von Milwaukee, “Art By The Square Inch: Examining the Metropolitan’s Finale for ‘92”, Shepherd Express, July 23, 1992. "Bret Barrett offers one of the more lighthearted sculptures in the show, a wood and metal mechanized contraption called ‘Man-N-The Trees’. When switched on, it shakes and rattles like a palsied rocking chair, with appendages that include a wooden salad fork and a twirling twig." - Janice T. Paine, “Art Comes Out Of The Wood Work”, Milwaukee Sentinel, March 15, 1991. "Bret Barrett has two chaotic kinetic works, fashioned from clock parts, and motors, with miniature belts and pulleys. ‘Step In Tyme’ and ‘Moolah (Consuming)’ are fun pieces that spin around and peck away at the system." - Jeff Worman, “ReArt”, Shepherd Express, February 1, 1990. "Bret Barrett's mechanized sculptures are definitely the wacky highpoint of the show. Each sculpture has a switch and once activated they rattle, churn, jerk and rotate. They are constructed from found objects such as a coat hanger, vacuum cleaner, motors from hair dryers, floor polishers and a spigot from turning a turkey. He's welded the artifacts into effective sculptural forms and then, with the addition of movement, transformed them into frenetic, animated, somewhat anthropomorphic contraptions, each with a totally different sound and style of motion." - Debra Brehmer, “Group Show”, Artmuscle, September 15, 1988. "Barrett's machine... makes Rube Goldberg dance to Beat Poetry: balls roll and feathers tickle the air, and for once machinery is relegated to the most essential realm: the pointless." - Rand Burkert, “Dark Humor Turns On Wright Street”, UWM Post, May 5, 1987. |
Education:
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University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1986-88, Painting and Sculpture. Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 1984-86, Painting and Sculpture. |