Barrett is a principal in the NYC based architecture firm PSF Projects which she formed with two partners in early 2015.
Barrett is also an artist. She received a Bachelor of Art degree with High Honors in studio art and a concentration in architecture at Wesleyan University. Her senior thesis was awarded the Jessup Prize for best thesis in the department. Barrett continued her studies at Harvard University where she earned a Masters in Architecture. Following graduate school she lived and studied in Tokyo for a year as a Fulbright Fellow and later taught architecture and drawing at Wesleyan as a visiting assistant professor. Barrett participates regularly in architecture studio reviews.
As an artist Barrett's work has been shown at Whitespace and Spruill Galleries in Atlanta and several Art Papers Auctions. She was awarded an artist residency at Hambidge during the summer of 2011, after which she relocated from Atlanta to New York City.
THE WORK: It emerges from an intention to make surfaces and spaces that have detail, depth and complexity such that they flicker between landscape, fabric and bio-morphic matter. While time speeds up around us, in these artifacts time feels slow as the labor-intensive process of making is evident.
INSTALLATIONS: Discarded and disregarded plastic objects are re-purposed to make “fabrics” which are then shaped and deployed to give them new life, beauty and potential. The work is distinctly optimistic.
WORKS ON PAPER: Thousands of lines on a page awake a thin surface shifting between the macroscopic and microscopic. Each ink line is an individual fact with its own shape, thickness, and character: together the lines create a new wholeness from distinct elements.