Barbara Gallucci
Photo by Brad Ogbonna
Barbara Gallucci’s work, ranging in scale from autonomous objects to large-scale installations and photographs, examines the intersections between sculpture, furniture, and design.
In Utopiary Terrace, made for the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Gallery’s third-floor lobby in Lincoln, Massachusetts, she created a fully functional installation that references both manicured lawns and the manufactured landscape. Her Topia Chairs are over-scaled beanbags that mimic shrubbery, but are still completely functional providing resting places, lounges, or small social centers for conversation. This work, as with all her art, comments on how nature is made to “behave” for culture and reflects her long-standing interest in the place of nature in contemporary culture and how Modernist ideology has shaped that relationship.
Brooklyn, NY
Born 1953, Chicago, IL
1987 MFA Yale University, New Haven, CT
1979 BFA University Of Cal. Santa Cruz, CA