Arianna Barley
Barley (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Huntsville, Alabama. She earned her BA in Painting from The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 2018, and is currently a third year Masters of Fine Arts candidate at Arizona State University. In April of 2025, Step Gallery (Phoenix, Arizona) will host her solo thesis exhibition focusing on her research and site engagements with Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville Alabama. Arianna received Arizona State University’s Nathan Cummings Graduate Travel Grant (2024) and was nominated and selected as an ASU Graduate College Enrichment Fellow (2022-2024). Recent group exhibitions include Becoming-with at Step Gallery (2023), body/architecture/landscape at Cosanti Originals (2023) and All the Moves at ASU’s Humanities Institute (2024).
Of Bugs and Bodies (details)
Wool yarn coiled cotton piping, ceramic vessels, cochineal-dyed fabric and yarn, unglazed ceramic forms, 2022.
Steeped in Sorghum (installation views)
Sorghum-dyed cotton weavings, Alabama mud, fencing, sorghum grain, 2024.
Becoming With (installation view)
Collaborative exhibition, 2023.