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Barbara Weissberger



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I Can't Hear You, photographic print on fabric (dye-sublimation and digital pigment printing), cut, pieced, and sewn, cotton batting, thread, grommets, 56" x 31", 2021.




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Cry, Baby, photographic print on fabric (dye-sublimation), various fabrics, cut, pieced, and sewn, cotton batting, thread, 48" x 36", 2021.


Barbara Weissberger was born in New Jersey, lived in San Francisco and New York before moving to Pittsburgh where she has been based since 2002. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous national and international residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, Camargo and Bogliasco, and participated in the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions. Her work has been shown at The Drawing Center, Silver Eye Center for Photography, PS1/MoMA, Gridspace in Brooklyn, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, The Mattress Factory, ADA Gallery, The Missoula Art Museum and more. Her improvisational photographs, photo quilts and soft sculptures are concerned with bodies, perception and sensation.



ada gallery 228 west broad street, richmond, virginia 23220
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