Mack Lecture: Sadie Barnette

Artist Sadie Barnette creates shining multimedia works reflecting on her family history, including The New Eagle Creek Saloon (2019), a glitter-and-neon installation that meditates on the social and political space of the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco, which was operated by her father in the 1990s.

Barnette’s practice mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States while illuminating her own family history. The youngest of her generation, Barnette holds a long and deep fascination with the personal and political value of kin. Her use of abstraction, glitter, and the fantastical summons another dimension of human experience and imagination.

In this Mack Lecture Barnette discusses her artistic practice and major projects like The New Eagle Creek Saloon.

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