Her sculpture career spans decades. She is represented in Museum Collections and has become a sought after artist working in her genre of figurative Native Americans. Over the years, and throughout our country, she has been commissioned and has installed larger than life works of public art in cities, universities and private clients.
Marie Barbera has been prolific, producing well over one hundred limited-edition bronzes, including life-sized works for public and private installations. The artist has found particular success using the cold-painted technique, a process developed in Vienna during the Art Deco period at the end of the nineteenth century.