Barbara Neijna

This book celebrates the art of Barbara Neijna, her public projects, installations, unbuilt works, and sculptures.Her art has been described by some as magical, monumental, and masterful. It is an art that grows and changes and extends the concept of sculpture into an evolving new understanding of objects in space. She uses a wide range of materials and imagery and produces work with consummate craftsmanship.During the past 50+ years of her career as an artist, Barbara Neijna has...
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This book celebrates the art of Barbara Neijna, her public projects, installations, unbuilt works, and sculptures.Her art has been described by some as magical, monumental, and masterful. It is an art that grows and changes and extends the concept of sculpture into an evolving new understanding of objects in space. She uses a wide range of materials and imagery and produces work with consummate craftsmanship.During the past 50+ years of her career as an artist, Barbara Neijna has created large-scale monumental sculpture, site-specific installations, landscape design, furniture, books, functional objects and photography that communicate images that concern place, origins, survival and our fragile environment. Her public work contains the observer within boundaries both real and implied and celebrates the experience of being part of a larger community with a past and a present. Her aesthetic intent focuses on a renewed balance between the work of art and the viewer. Her imagery is transformative as it becomes an open or closed container.Neijna relates to scale conceptually.The models are conceived as finished and valid monumental efforts regardless of their final production in space.