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Sadie Barnette:
The New Eagle Creek Saloon
September 29, 2019 ➽ January 26, 2020
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Sadie Barnette:
The New Eagle Creek Saloon
September 29, 2019 ➽ January 26, 2020

Sadie Barnette:
The New Eagle Creek Saloon

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For her first solo museum presentation in Los Angeles, Oakland-based artist Sadie Barnette (b. 1984) will reimagine the Eagle Creek Saloon, the first black-owned gay bar in San Francisco, established by the artist’s father Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton, CA chapter of the Black Panther Party. From 1990–93 Barnette’s father operated the bar and offered a safe space for the multiracial LGBTQ community who were marginalized at other social spaces throughout the city at that time.

Barnette engages the aesthetics of Minimalism and Conceptualism through an idiosyncratic use of text, decoration, photographs, and found objects that approach the speculative and otherworldly. Barnette’s recent drawings, sculptures, and installations have incorporated the 500-page FBI surveillance file kept on her father and references to West Coast funk and hip-hop culture to consider the historical and present-day dynamics of race, gender, and politics in the United States. Using materials such as spray paint, crystals, and glitter, she transforms the bureaucratic remnants from a dark chapter in American history into vibrant celebrations of personal, familial, and cultural histories and visual acts of resistance. The New Eagle Creek Saloon is a glittering bar installation that exists somewhere between a monument and an altar, at once archiving the past and providing space for potential actions. During the run of the exhibition at ICA LA, the installation will be activated by performances, talks, and other social events.

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Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon is organized by Alex Nicholls, Curatorial Assistant, ICA LA.

ICA LA is supported by Curator’s Council, Fieldwork, and 1717 Collective. The New Eagle Creek Saloon was commissioned by The Lab with support from the California Arts Council and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Sadie Barnette (b. 1984) earned a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally and is in the permanent collections of museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Brooklyn Museum; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2015–16, Barnette was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She is the recipient of Art Matters and Artadia awards and has been featured in publications such as New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and Vogue. Barnette lives in Oakland, and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
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Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 29, 2019–January 26, 2020 Photo: Jeff McLane
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