Izzy Barber: Clay Pigeons

Charles Moffett is pleased to present _Clay Pigeons_, New York-based artist Izzy Barber's first exhibition with the gallery, organized in collaboration with James Fuentes. In an era defined by speed and digital reproduction, Barber remains committed to the observation, material experimentation, and visceral experience of painting from life. The new body of work includes paintings the artist made during three, month-long, cross-country road trips taken in 2025 and 2026. Working at the extremities of plein-air painting, Barber placed herself in unfamiliar and at times charged environments, allowing direct experience and the inherent limitations of her distinctive practice to shape her work. Her resulting paintings unearth the latent tensions stretching across the empty highways, border walls and deserts of the U.S.