Building on color and form, Jude Barton creates balanced bold compositions of hard-edge shapes and lines. She is committed to a nonobjective style of aesthetics that is accessible to all and embraces the idea of art for art’s sake. Barton trusts the viewer to take away that which they find valuable in her work as they interact with the geometry of intersecting lines and shapes. The lines and forms that occasionally emerge out of order from the grid or drop from the square, sometimes leaning or falling, are intentional anomalies that invite the viewer into reflection on movement, space, balance and order.

 

Also showcased in Barton’s Construction Zone exhibit are two invited guest artists: Denise Demby, showing sculptural constructions in steel and glass and Peder Morgenthaler exploring line, shape color and pattern. Morgenthaler and Demby both have modernist underpinnings to their style which will round out this exhibition with additional perspectives on formal construction.