Lot 224
Jennifer Losch Bartlett
American, (1941-2022)
Glass and Stone Houses, 2000
enamel over silkscreen grid, on baked enamel steel plates, plate glass, tinted concrete
signed verso.
Biography from the Archives of askART: Known for painted images that appear to move back and forth in a progressive way, Jennifer Bartlett conveys a sense of computer systems operating behind the visual movement of her work, which is both abstract and realistic. Her career as a Conceptual artist "came of age in the late 1960s" when at age 27 and reflecting the prevalent style of Minimalism, she decided to do all of her artwork on a 16-gauge steel panel, 1-foot square that looked "like a very thin flooring tile" (Katz 106) and that had been pre-prepared with silk-screened grid lines, giving the appearance of graph paper.
For the next several years, she worked on these panels by dabbing a "single point of paint into some of the tiny squares." The result was unpredictable, which led to her own style and confidence in her unique creativity. In 2006, the Addison Gallery in Andover, Massachusetts held an exhibition of the works representative of this phase of Bartlett's career and titled "Jennifer Bartlett: Early Plate Work."
She studied at Mills College in California, and there met mixed-media sculptor Elizabeth Murray. She received further training at the Yale School of Art and Architecture at a time when Minimalism was all-prevalent. However, there she became friends with Chuck Close, and like him developed a style of her own. She had wearied of Minimalism and its limitations of single images.
One of her major pieces, Rhapsody, completed in 1976 in New York, covered the walls of the Paula Cooper Gallery with 988 variations of mountains, trees, oceans and houses. They were paintings on enamel on twelve-inch steel plates, and each plate had a silk-screened grid with a total of 2304 spaces.
For the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia, she created a two-hundred foot mural that had both steel plates and canvas, and in 1981, she did a thirty-foot long mural of a garden, whose theme she painted in smaller works throughout the building.
Sources include:
Vincent Katz, "Bartlett Shows Her Colors", Art in America, January 2007, pp. 106-111
American Women Artists by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
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Provenance:
- (born 1941, Long Beach, CA). American artist. Born in 1941 in Long Beach, California, Jennifer Bartlett grew up drawing constantly. She attended Mills College in Oakland, California and received her BFA degree in 1963. From there she moved to New Haven to attend the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, and completed her MFA degree in 1965. At the Yale University of Art and Architecture, she studied under instructors and renowned artists such as James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenburg, Alex Katz and Al Held during the time when Minimalism was the dominant style. Between 1968 and 1976, Bartlett began developing her artistic style through the use of colored dots, gridded steel plates and canvas – or grid-paintings. Her trademark style arose from a personal adaptation of the Minimalist aesthetic, and ranged from meticulous and intricate dot paintings to more painterly and fluid showcases of color. She officially entered the art scene in 1976, with the debut of her work Rhapsody at the Paula Cooper Gallery. As one of the most prominent artists of the New Image group, Bartlett is best known for these grid-paintings, in which she focuses on commonplace subjects such as houses, uniquely combining both abstract and representational elements of art. From 1972-77, Bartlett worked as an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and in 1976, she won the Art Institute of Chicago-Harris Prize. Additionally, she won the American Institute of Architects Award in 1987. In her current work, such as Waterfall (1997), Bartlett continues to use grid-paintings, but on a much larger scale. By pairing interwoven strokes of color with subtle traces of representational figures, Bartlett creates a visual experience for the viewer unlike any other. Her work has been displayed in a number of public exhibits: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. Today, Bartlett lives and works in New York City. Dimensions:
- 12"H x 12"W (plates, each) Artist Name:
- Jennifer Losch Bartlett Medium:
- enamel over silkscreen grid, on baked enamel steel plates, plate glass, tinted concrete
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