The Magical Other

Description

Barbara travels regularly to Mexico, Central America, South America, and Asia.  In her first series, she used her large collection of Mexican and Guatemalan folk art – masks, carved wooden animals, papier mâché figures, and toys – to create one-of-a-kind pastel-on-sandpaper paintings that combine reality and fantasy and depict personal narratives.  Since 2017 she has been creating a series called “Bolivianos,” based on an exhibition of Carnival masks seen at the Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz.