NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda announced renowned Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton’s the more than human world, the artist’s fourth solo show with the gallery.

With her powerful return to the United States, Del Kathryn Barton will present two new bronze sculptures and a series of new paintings celebrating the divine feminine as a dynamic, raw, and evolving energy. Barton masterfully blends traditional painting techniques with radically lush patterns and emotional iconography in an otherworldly medley of figures.

Magical mergings are afoot in Del Kathryn Barton's work. Her central figures, often placed in the midst of the radical potential and actual transformations they are experiencing, are mediums and seers, not ready to divulge their wisdoms but alive and vibrating in stillness. They each rely on their own myths and riddles to be puzzled over, visual and poetic anomalies of contradiction and strength. - Laura Raicovich

The more than human world is a sweeping and intimate exhibition that explores emotion and connection as vibrant, life-giving forces. This new body of work showcases Barton’s signature rich color palettes, intricate detail, and deeply emotive symbolism, immersing viewers in fantastical portrayals of motherhood, femininity, and desire. In each work there is a unique expression of a deep interconnectedness between different emotional, spiritual, and universal realms. The result is a lush, symbolic dream world, rich in pattern, myth, and emotion—an invitation to consider intimacy and love not as sentiment, but as a source of power and transformation.

Born in 1972 in Sydney, Australia, Del Kathryn Barton has participated in many group exhibitions that include: UNTITLED, Art Basel, Miami (2018), Asia Now Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris (2018), The Archibald Prize (2018, 2013, 2011) Art Gallery of New South Wales, mad love, ARNDT, Singapore (2017); Hong Kong International Art Fair, Roslyn Oxley9/ARNDT, Hong Kong (2016); Like-ness, albertz benda, New York, USA (2016); Dark Heart, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Adelaide, Australia (2014); Theatre of the World, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia (2012), Lightness and Gravity, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2012); Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia (2010/11); 2009 Wynne Prize for Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2009); Half a World Away: Drawings from Glasgow, Sao Paulo and Sydney, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, New York, USA (2002).

Her solo exhibitions include: love wants to give, Albertz Benda, Los Angeles (2022), the women who fell to earth, Roslyn Oxley 9, Sydney (2022), sing blood-wings sing, Albertz Benda, New York (2019), the highway is a disco, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2017); r u a bunny, albertz benda, New York, USA (2017), angel dribble, RoslynOxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2016); the highway is a disco, ARNDT, Singapore (2015); electro orchid, RoslynOxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2014); The Nightingale and the Rose, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia (2012); the stars eat your body, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2009); the whole of everything, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2008), and thank you for loving me, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2005).

Her motion works her critically acclaimed, debut feature film Blaze, Causeway Films, In addition to short films, RED, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2017); The Nightingale and the Rose, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (2016); The Human Dress, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Australia (2014).

Barton was awarded The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney twice, in 2013 and 2008. She was also awarded Best Short Animation at the AACTA Awards (2016), Best Direction in an Animation at the Australia Directors Guild (2016) and the Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. In addition, she has been nominated for a range of awards that include the Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2007) and The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1995).