BARNABY WHITFIELD'S paintings are powerfully symbolic and sexually charged. They cope with shame and absession, and are full of visual historical context. Beside being a great painter Barnaby has also being an opera singer as well as a model.
Born in Miami,
Florida, Barnaby Whitfield lives and works in New York, where he maintains a reputation
as "a colorful character with a past that isn’t so much checkered as it is
striped or polka-dotted, or maybe something along the lines of a vintage
toile" (Anthem magazine, 2008).
