Hannah Barrett. Stage Fright. 20" x 16.5", Archival pigment print. Signed edition of 50. $200. Hannah Barrett's figures are amalgamations, gathered elements from the stylistic conventions of portraiture and the artist's tongue-in-cheek vision of reality. In "Stage Fright", the theater-like setting allows her subject to perform investigations of gender and otherness that circulate throughout Barrett's practice. Boundaries between male and female, human and creature, are blurred. "People can see the paintings as a collage...'' Barrett noted in an interview with the Boston Globe, "or as a challenging idea of what constitutes a person.".
