Sadie Barnette

Scott Pavilion Riley CAP Gallery S8 Working across drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation, Sadie Barnette mines both personal narratives and collective histories, exploring how the two intersect and diverge over the course of one’s life. Her exhibition in the CAP Gallery centers on a recording she discovered on a doorbell security camera. In the short black-and-white video, the artist’s father is seen removing helium balloons from the trunk of a car. As he wrangles the inflatables—a gift for the artist’s mother—a single heart-shaped balloon floats away without his notice, prompting…