Visibility: Seeing and Being Seen

Curated by Delita Martin

Jamaal Barber

About the Artist

Jamaal Barber is a creative, imaginative soul born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking, making it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed-media prints illustrate the new Folio Society special edition of The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead. Jamaal recently participated in the MTV/Smithsonian Channel art competition show The Exhibit. He has also worked for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America, and Emory University. 

Jamaal currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

Artist:

Jamaal Barber
Artist Jamaal Barber in a space filled with bright, abstract acrylic paint.

Social media: @jbarberstudio

Website: www.jbarberstudio.com

Exhibition

Visibility: Seeing and Being Seen

A woodcut portrait of a young man is surrounded by biomorphic stenciled acrylic and collage plant forms

Revolver
Woodcut, acrylic, collage
48” x 72”
2023

Two male portraits, one more naturalistic, the other more expressive, look in opposite directions off a composition composed of biomorphic forms reminiscent of traditional African aesthetic motifs.

Duality
Woodcut
24” x 32”
2018

A woodcut portrait of a woman sits in front of a ground composed of biomorphic patterns in warm colors. She wears large earrings of colorful circles.

Something Wonderful IV
Woodcut
19” x 12”
2022

A woodcut portrait of a man with dreadlocks is surrounded by biomorphic stenciled acrylic and collage plant forms.

In My Lifetime I
Woodcut, acrylic, collage
48” x 60”
2024

A naturalistic male portrait is surrounded by more expressive male faces creating the impression of a crowd.

The Council
Woodcut
36” x 48”
2018

A young figure reclines in a space composed of patterns informed in part by African tribal motifs.

History pt 4
Woodcut
30” x 22”
2024

A young boy sits on the lap of an adult. Both figures composed with an expressive, painterly mark making.

Boys Become Men
Woodcut
30” x 22”
2019

A woodcut face in red ink in the background is partially obscured by another face in black in surrounded by fabric pattern motifs and the text "strength through unity"

The Builder
Woodcut, screenprint, collage
30” x 48”
2018