Barrie Kaufman

Kaufman, a lifelong West Virginian is a multimedia artist that has been producing informative work for over 50 years, that speaks of the Appalachian narrative. She started as a printmaker, then as a painter, ceramicist and glass artist. Her work addresses the varied stories of the natural world, its beauty and current man-made imbalance and destruction. Kaufman finds the appropriate medium to express and hopefully find answers to those environmental tragedies that seem to plague our hills, rivers and valleys.

Over the past 5 decades, Kaufman has exhibited from Stockholm to Taipei. She has won awards and grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Painted Bride; Philadelphia, PA., The Mid Atlantic Foundation Fellowship for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, WV Artist of the Year 2014, and a residency at the Pittsburg Glass Center. She has had many one-woman shows from Huntington, WV to Chicago. Her work is also part of permanent collections from Universities like Rutgers, Marshall, and Charleston, WV.  Thus galvanizing her honorable placement in the West Virginia Permanent Collection.

 Paragon is excited to be part of her creative journey. For the first time, she is exhibiting alongside her daughter, Caroline Kaufman, in her first West Virginian exhibition, Paragon’s first titled exhibition: It’s About Time – 2 Centeries of WV Women Artists.