Jennifer Bartlett
Jennifer Bartlett ( born March 14, 1941 in Long Beach, California) is an American painter and sculptor.
Life and work
Bartlett grew up in Long Beach and studied at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she met Elizabeth Murray and since then maintains a friendship with her. She had at the University of touch with James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz and Al Held. In 1963 she was awarded the Bachelor. After the Master ( 1965) at Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, she moved to New York where she was from 1972 to 1977 lecturer at the School of Visual Arts. She lives and works in New York.
Influenced by Sol LeWitt, the (1967 ) gave as an artist of minimalism with the art theoretical writing, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art important suggestions for the concept art, Bartlett initially worked meticulously to geometric paintings with abstract themes and very different color palette. She works with various painting surfaces such as sheet steel, mahogany and plywood.
Solo exhibitions (selection )
- 2012 Jennifer Bartlett, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
- 2011 Jennifer Bartlett: The Studio Inside Out, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
- 2008 Plate Paintings: 1969-2007, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 2005 Jennifer Bartlett: Paintings and Works on Paper, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida
- 2003 Jennifer Bartlett: Paintings, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, New York
- 2001 Jennifer Bartlett: New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- 1988 The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
- 1980 Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan