Barbara Pearsall

Biography

Barbara Pearsall is an artist and educator. Her art practice is attentive to how deviation from material conventions can subvert or metamorphosize the role of institutions, where her philosophical and political concerns manifest through material explorations of the built environment. Her pieces seek to create illusory and unusual architectural conditions as a form of resistance, interrupting real-world functionality to allow for alternative systems of order. She received an MFA in Art from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan and a BA in Art & Art History from William & Mary.