ARTIST STATEMENT
speaking in color
bari wieselman schulman is a modern abstract painter and mixed-media artist obsessed with color, language, and color as language, and the ways in which art and art objects invite dialogue and carry meaning in(to) the world. a divergent thinker with an intuitive and experimental process, her work challenges us to see, feel, and think differently, encouraging connection with our neuropsychological sense of self. bari’s highly gestural work is the translation, the embodiment of an intense mind in constant motion. getting things out on paper to see and manipulate, pushing boundaries with form and contrast, exploring, her work makes manifest the experience of seeing in color, thinking in color, speaking in color, being in color. invoking the emotional resonance of color, bari creates spaces ripe with, and for, transformation. strong yet delicate, conjuring the natural world, multiform embodies growth and potential energy, rooted in the essential rightness of natural chaos. with characteristic use of intense saturated color, highly gestural form, and mesmerizing contrast and movement, the work obscures and clarifies. multiform deftly guides us to growth, openness, and the revitalizing power of intentional change.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
bari wieselman schulman has always been thinking and doing differently — a creative and analytical mind, bari is a modern abstract painter and mixed-media artist obsessed with language, color, and the meaningful dialogue created between artist, artwork, and audience. chicago-born and rooted in madrid, bari holds a phd in psychology from the university of chicago and spent years in the design world at the intersection of people, brands, and products. her background in language and behavior provides a unique window into the relationships between humans, objects, and spaces, and is a critical frame of reference for her work. always a creative and a creator, bari eventually left design to dedicate herself fully to her artistic practice, founding her studio, rethinkreframe, with her husband. this purposeful evolution is emblematic of the openness, deep thinking, exploration, and experimentation at the heart of her work, paving the way for connection with those who seek out the bold, the evocative, the thought-provoking, the dialogic, the extraordinary… bari has shown her work with the gallery, jackson junge gallery, visionary projects, blue shop gallery, saatchi’s the other art fair, rostrum | 312, sergio gomez, the martin, atelier, west end gallery, madewell, the art center highland park, peninsula art center, and woman made gallery. her work and creative journey were most recently featured in sheridan road and forest & bluff magazines and she is the art center highland park’s first artist-in-residence. bari currently lives near chicago with her family.
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