Art Talk with Adriana Barrios

1701 Wright Street,Madison WI 53704

25 March, 2022

Description

Join the Art Talk with Adriana Barrios, recipient of the Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award. Join Madison College with Adriana Barrios, recipient of the 2022 Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award. Barrios’ works are a record and response to climate change. Ghostly fonts on multi-layered prints delicately suggest danger and consequence as they hover over images of individuals whose lives have been impacted by extreme environmental distresses. Prints on glass remind of the fragility of Earth’s ecosystem, and live feed video projects implore viewers to act, now. ​​Adriana Barrios is a queer, biracial, Latina, artist who grew up on the coastal borderlands of San Diego, California. Barrios received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a Master of Fine Arts graduate from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barrios has worked with The Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Santa Reparata International School of Art, and The Chazen Museum of Art. Barrios has exhibited her artwork internationally in Italy and Mexico and nationally in New York, New Mexico, and Texas. Her artwork is in the collections of UW-Madison Graduate School and UW-Madison Department of Special Collections. Barrios's artwork presents a visual response to climate change alongside scientific field work that gives meaning to the social consequences of her lived experience. Barrios uses printmaking, paper making, video, and installation as a way to record and respond to the environmental changes currently happening along the California Coastline due to climate change.