Drawn to unforgiving media, Brian Barreto has worked with glass, ceramics, performance, and sound- but marble has always been the challenger, wrecker of wrists, the first love.

Brian Barreto

A multimedia artist primarily sculpting in marble, Brian Barreto pursues the human form as a locus between identity, gender, and the inimitable joy of belonging. A parallel practice of abstraction is founded upon listening — investigating the musicality of repetition and multiplicity in open edition works. Current series explore transformational bodyscapes, migration, reliquary, longform engagements, and cultural fragmentation.

Having apprenticed sculpture in Germany and the US, they furthered their studies at the University of Wisconsin. Brian continues to build upon their understanding through research and interviews, ongoing curatorial and collaborative projects, teaching, forging their own tools, and developing more sustainable methods of art production in their studio art practice. Brian has exhibited their work in the United States and Europe, and is committed to creating further opportunities for artists and researchers in their community through the Alluvial Project, an artist-run project space and gallery.

In 2021 the studio reopened at 2219 Hwy 68 in Rinconada, a picturesque box canyon on the Rio Grande road half an hour south of Taos, and an hour north of Santa Fe.

One can visit by appointment, or if the open sign is on the gate, visitors are welcome.

Studio Barreto is available for commissioned works, personal and group instruction, consulting, and fine art services.