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Barbara Pearsall

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Barbara Pearsall

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  • MFA, U‑M Stamps School of Art & Design
  • BA, Art & Art History, William & Mary

B Pearsall is a transdisciplinary artist who combines research, sculpture, installation, and photographs to explore what emerges when language becomes material, when it shapes structures, landscapes, and actions. She co-founded Five Crows, which provides pro bono grant writing and application support for emerging artists. Prior to Stamps, she lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY.

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Photo collage of MFA student selfies and artwork from exhibitions visited.

MFA Professional Practice Seminar 2022

Work

This is a square quilt pattern with various sizes of purple, orange, and brown triangles. The name of the pattern comes from the design, which is meant to look like a field of corn and beans. B Pearsall: Corn and Beans Pattern Block Graduate B Pearsall: Corn and Beans Pattern Block
This is a square quilt pattern with alternating squares of blue, brown, and orange. The name of the pattern comes from the design, where each quilt square is made up of 9 squares. B Pearsall: Nine Patch Pattern Block Graduate B Pearsall: Nine Patch Pattern Block
This is a square quilt pattern with various sizes of purple, orange, and brown triangles and squares. B Pearsall: Prairie Queen Pattern Block Graduate B Pearsall: Prairie Queen Pattern Block
This is an image of a large shipping pallet that has been used as a loom, woven with rust-dyed cotton fabric and plaster that has been cast on sheet metal to collect a rusty, textured surface. The piece is surrounded by flat, round disks of plaster that have been cast on sheet metal for a textured surface. B Pearsall: On Waste Graduate B Pearsall: On Waste
This is an image of a shipping pallet that has been used as a loom, woven with rust dyed strips of cotton fabric, and sheet metal. Around the pallet are flat, round plaster pieces that have a rust texture. B Pearsall: On Waste Graduate B Pearsall: On Waste
This is a close up image of a shipping pallet that has been woven with rust dyed fabric and plaster that has been cast on sheet metal to collect a rusty, textured surface. B Pearsall: On Waste Graduate B Pearsall: On Waste
This is a photograph of plastic sandwich bags filled with brown dirt. They are tied closed with a rubber band, and the background is black. B Pearsall: Taking Ground, Marfa, TX Graduate B Pearsall: Taking Ground, Marfa, TX
This is an image of a framed piece of round, flat plaster that has been cast with dirt from Point Sublime in Arizona. The wooden frame around the plaster piece has been woven with fabric that has been dyed from the dirt from Point Sublime. The dirt is an orange-y brown with much variation, going from very dark brown to an almost white. The background is black. B Pearsall: Taking Ground, Point Sublime, AZ Graduate B Pearsall: Taking Ground, Point Sublime, AZ
This is a photograph of a piece of dirt-dyed fabric from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. It is yellow with three horizontal brown stripes across it. B Pearsall: Dirt Archive, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1 October 2019 Graduate B Pearsall: Dirt Archive, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1 October 2019