A mixed race 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 often re-contextualizing historical canon into a contemporary discourse. Brian continues to build 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.Initiated in 2022, Barreto also hosts the Alluvial Project; an artist-run gallery, curatorial forum, and Artist-In-Residence program near Taos in Rinconada, NM. “As a stone sculptor, everything I do is a reduction—I reduce, remove, and split. One could say I’m slowly and deliberately destroying something in the most novel and compelling way I can.” –Brian Barreto "I’ve come to believe sculpture is a process of listening. Some approaches may be more direct or definitive, but within those moments of making small changes with explosive force – we are always sounding – finding direction. The perfect stone rings like a bell. The more I practice, the luckier I get, I’m striving to be a better listener." –Brian Barreto