About

Formally trained as a printmaker, the artist Barbara Chapman doesn’t find a lot of mediums she won’t use.

Since the 70s, Chapman has created stacks of oil paintings, drawers of linocut works, piles of papier-mache sculptures + yards of needlepoint pictorials. There’s also some furniture thrown in there.

No matter the medium, Chapman’s recognizable iconography carries through. Commentary on political + social climate threads through her work, decade after decade, bringing hopelessly beautiful imagery to the feelings of hopelessness.

Endlessly private, Chapman has remained behind the scenes, focused on creation.

Her works are in the permanent collections of both The National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C. and The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland, as well as on public display in numerous restaurants in New York.

She resides in Shepherdstown, West Virginia where she continues to paint.