Jennifer Bartlett
| Jennifer Bartlett | |
|---|---|
 'Houses', serigraph by Jennifer Bartlett, 2005 | |
| Born |
March 14, 1941 Long Beach, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Yale School of Art and Architecture |
| Known for | Painting |
Jennifer Losch Bartlett (born 1941) is an American artist. Her work combines abstract and representational styles.
Early life and education
Bartlett was born March 14, 1941 in Long Beach, California. She grew up in the suburbs of Long Beach before she attended Mills College in Oakland, California.[1] While a student, she formed a friendship with the future mixed-media sculptor Elizabeth Murray. Bartlett received her BA in 1963. She then traveled to New Haven to study at Yale School of Art and Architecture[1] at a time when minimalism was the dominant style. Bartlett's instructors included the artists James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, and Al Held. She received her BFA in 1964 and her MFA in 1965.[2] Bartlett has described the experience of study there as her broadest influence: "I'd walked into my life."[3] Fellow Yale Art and Architecture alumni of the 1960s include the painters, photographers, and sculptors Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Gary Hudson and Robert Mangold.
When asked by Murray in a 2005 interview about what she was thinking as a first-year art student, Bartlett replied:[3]
- Being an artist, Ed Bartlett, Bach cello suites, Cézanne, getting into graduate school, getting to New York, Albert Camus, James Joyce. I’d drawn constantly since childhood: large drawings of every creature alive in the ocean; Spanish missions with Indians camping in the foreground, in the background Spanish men throwing cowhides over a cliff to a waiting ship; hundreds of Cinderellas on five-by-eight pads, all alike but with varying hair color and dresses.
Career
Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints of mundane objects—especially houses—executing in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art. In 1981, she created a two-hundred foot mural for the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia. Bartlett has completed commissions for Volvo, Saatchi & Saatchi, Information Sciences Institute, and Battery Park.[1]
Bartlett was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1990, and became a full member in 1994.[4] In early 2011, "Recitative" (2009–10), composed of 372 plates overall, was mounted on three walls of the Pace Gallery space on West 22nd.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "Oral history interview with Jennifer Bartlett, 1987 June–September". Oral history interviews. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ↑ Handy, Amy (1989). "Artist's Biographies - Jennifer Bartlett". In Randy Rosen; Catherine C. Brower. Making Their Mark. Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985. Abbeville Press. p. 239. ISBN 0-89659-959-0.
- 1 2 Murray, Elizabeth (Fall 2005). "Jennifer Bartlett". Bomb Magazine (93).
- ↑ "National Academicians - Bartlett, Jennifer Losch". National Academy Museum. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ↑ Morgan, Robert C. (February 2011). "Jennifer Bartlett's Recitative: Fractions Between Concept and Decorum". The Brooklyn Rail.
Sources
- Eisenberg, Deborah, Air, 24 Hours, Jennifer Bartlett, New York, H.N. Abrams, 1994.
- Goldwater, Marge, Jennifer Bartlett, New York, Abbeville Press, 1985.
- Katz, Vincent, Bartlett Shows Her Colors, Art in America, January 2007, 106-111.
- Richardson, Brenda, Jennifer Bartlett, Early Plate Work, Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, New Haven, distributed by Yale University Press, 2006.
- Scott, Sue A., Jennifer Bartlett, A Print Retrospective, Orlando, Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, 1993.
- Van der Marck, Jan, Reconnecting, Recent Work by Jennifer Bartlett, Detroit, Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, 1987.