Jennifer Bartlett

Jennifer Bartlett was born in 1941 in Long Beach, California. She received her BA at the Mills College, Oakland and received her M.F.A. from Yale in 1965. She has exhibited her work in some of the most prestigious exhibitions of our time including the Venice and Paris Biennials, and the Whitney Biennial Exhibitions.
Influenced by the Minimailsim of the 1960s, Bartlett use of the grid figured predominatly in her work, combined with familiar mundane forms such as a tree or a house. Bartlett came to public acclaim in the 1970s with her pivotal work, 'Rhapsody', a work composed of nearly a thousand gridded steel plates affixed to the wall in a bright grid .
Her exploration of themes includes; The 'elements' of air, water, fire and earth. Bartlett up near the sea, she was constantly drawing as a child, and her work was influenced by her environment.

The progressive approach to modern art taught at Yale and the nearby thriving art scene of New York were instrumental in Bartlett's early development;

'Yale was such a community. All ambition, all the time. Richard Serra, Brice Marden had just left, Nancy Graves, Jon Borofsky, Chuck Close, Michael Craig-Martin, Jan Hashey, Janet Fish, Sylvia Mangold, Jenny Snider—whose brother-in-law was Joel Shapiro'
(source: http://bombsite.com/issues/93/articles/2756).

Bartlett's instructors included the artists James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, and Al Held.

Her works are widely collected privately and by museums throughout the world. She has had major one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; The Brooklyn Museum; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Milwaukee Museum of Art.

Jennifer Bartlett lives and works in New York.

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