MoMA (2021) 

A deeply conceptual impulse underlies the deceptively simple paintings in the MoMA series, named as a whole to reflect Barwick’s having painted them while remotely studying through the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Executed as a way to better understand the tools and methods of the various artists he was looking at—and with their individual titles all coming from different friends and acquaintances of the artist—the resulting body of work speaks quietly to the interpersonal nature of artistic practice and to the way in which an artist’s vision can’t help but be informed by the influence of others.