
Figuring it out is hard and I’m sorry
We have to be gentle with each other’s hearts
I Like America and America likes me
How dare you make this harder
Why cant you let me have this
You cant be this liberally idiotic like common sense has to come into play at some point
Russiagate
Show me the incentive and ill show you the outcome
Alternative currency schemes
They fell for the rhetoric they fell for the hype
Negros take abuse as a sign of love
The patina of the privilege class
The story is no longer the boss instead we sell narratives
I think most people just want to improve their condition and i dont think people are as tied up on the philosophy of the government as they are about improving their condition
The creation of the library across the united states was the greatest act of philanthropy
We must build before the backshots
Unholy alliance
Every debt is a social obligation
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
I think they just dont care about the sensitivities and not caring about the sensitivities when you’re talking about black people when your talking about black people not caring about them is the same as hating them
Pop culture is Art plus time
Alternative asset class
Experienced to be photographed
Rage against the dying of light
Chief everything officer
Professional buzz words
Peak entitled neoliberal feminist
Betta belly burst than good food waste
We have all become very adept at saying things that are technically true but lack context
People want any type of Fame even if its embarrassing
You know the family dynamics on repeat
You reading about you and you aint wrote
Middle class laziness and entitlement masquerading as social justice warriors
Id prefer clarity to agreement
The Math aint Mathing
You ever lived with somebody while they eating you starved
Asset Bubble
Of all the things i care about this is below my line
Educated by other people’s interest
Who is served by these stories
—Alvaro Barrington










Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983, Caracas, Venezuela) paints vivid abstractions that consider the cultural production of subjects ranging from Hibiscus flowers to the life of Marcus Garvey. Raised between Brooklyn and the Caribbean, Barrington utilizes cross-disciplinary materials and crafts that often reference his childhood, including the sewing of his Grenadian aunts. In his early work Barrington experimented with “copying” artists like Willem de Kooning, Henry Taylor, and Howard Hodgkin. The influence of such artists, whose work Barrington highlighted in a 2019 show he curated entitled Artists I Steal From at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in London, can be felt in the bold, gestural quality of his compositions. Recent solo exhibitions include Emalin, London (2021); Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris (2021); Corvi-Mora, London (2020); Sadie Coles, London (2019); Emalin, London (2019); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London (2018); Emalin, London (2018); and MoMA PS1, New York (2017).




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