Gallery Hours:
Hours 11-6
Thursday-Monday (closed Tuesday & Wednesday)

The Quicksilver Mine Co.
6671 Front St. (Hwy. 116)
Downtown Forestville

PHONE: 707.887.0799
FAX: 707.887.0146
MAIL: P.O. Box 844
Forestville, CA 95436

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Genevieve Willson Barnhart

Genevieve Willson Barnhart�s work is "uniformly small....Each piece is immediate, contained within the focus of her physical presence and concentration, revealing some of the interior of her life and beliefs. She says the figures are there only to provide a human scale, yet their spirituality is evident. She works primarily in bronze, honoring the medium�s integrity...exploring its multiple personalities, from surfaces coarse to smooth, to finishes dull, highly polished and patina-ed. Spatially the work is never out of balance, but often teeters just this side of precarious. The faces of her figures possess a stylized simplicity, reflecting...medieval imagery (and) are usually upright, heads bent slightly forward as if in modest supplication. Uniformly (her) work exudes a gentle elegance and integration of message and form."

Sandy Thompson, ARTWEEK, June 2003

Gen Barnhart, born in Hollister California, attended Dominican College in San Rafael, and graduate school at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and San Jose State College. She also studied sculpture in Mexico City in the late 1940�s, and taught art in high school and college for many years.

She has been a working as a sculptor, jeweler, and photographer since the 1940�s.

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