No. 579: Uta Barth

Episode No. 579 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Uta Barth.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is presenting “Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision,” a retrospective of Barth’s work. For over forty years Barth has made work about the act of looking, perception, movement and the passage of time. The exhibition debuts Barth’s newest work: a project commissioned in celebration of the Getty Center’s twentieth anniversary. The exhibition was curated by Arpad Kovacs, and is on view through February 19, 2023. A catalogue is forthcoming in 2023.

A previous mid-career survey, “Uta Barth: I Between Places” was organized by the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in 2000. Barth’s work is in nearly every major museum collection in North America.

Barth and host Tyler Green talked about several bodies of work best understood in series rather than via individual images. Each is available on Barth’s website, including:
Every Day/One Day/etc., 1979-82/2010;
Untitled, 2005 [flowers]; and
Compositions of White on Light, 2011.

Instagram: Uta Barth, Tyler Green.

Air date: December 8, 2022.