There’s one week left to see Izzy Barber’s exceptional paintings at Charles Moffett Gallery in lower Manhattan. Her show closes July 31, 2026.
Here’s a detail of Zeno’s Garage so you can see the paint texture and how the space is created by a deft contrast of color and touch and light. From what I can tell, Izzy is drawn in by unusually complex situations of light that require response and invention. Situations that cannot be modeled.
You can read the Charles Moffett Gallery press release here.
Click to read my review of Barber’s show for WhiteHot Magazine.
Izzy Barber (b. 1990) is originally from Gowanus, Brooklyn, and lives and works in Queens, New York. Izzy Barber paints from life: immediacy and physical presence are at the heart of her practice. Working on-site, in public, often at sunset, in the last light of the day and into the night, her highly impressionistic, at times three-dimensional brushwork charges her paintings with the physical and temporal proximity of their making.
Barber earned her MFA from the New York Studio School in 2017 and her BA in Studio Arts & Human Rights from Bard College in 2011. Her exhibition Badlands (2026, at Pièce Unique Massimo De Carlo, Paris, France) follows her solo shows There Is No Time (2024, at James Fuentes, Los Angeles), Waiting Game (2023, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento) Crude Futures (2022) and Maspeth Moon (2021) (both at James Fuentes, New York). Her work has been shown at James Fuentes, New York; Massimo De Carlo, Milan; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin; David Zwirner Platform; New Orleans Arts Center; and in the 2012 Brucennial, among others. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Publications include Waiting Game (2023) and JFP03: Izzy Barber (2021).
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