Uta Barth

Over the past 15 years, Uta Barth’s work has repeatedly refused to address a central subject, presenting us instead with out-of-focus backgrounds, peripheral views and passing glimpses of scenes seen only in passing. The content of her work has always been that of vision itself and her often empty images point us back to our perceptual experience as the primary point of engagement. More recent projects (nowhere near (1999), and ….and of time.(2000)) present us with a single view of looking out the artist’s living-room window, a subject so familiar to her, that it becomes almost invisible again, creating a blind-spot in daily experience. This familiar, ambient visual environment is presented in countless repetition and all we can notice is the passage of time and changing color of light. Uta Barth’s work has been exhibited widely by museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao, the Tate Modern, London, MOCA, Los Angeles, the MCA Chicago, LACMA, Los Angeles, the Getty Museum, the Wexner Center and many others. A mid-career survey of her work was presented by the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and the MCA in Houston. (Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm)