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Jennifer Bartlett

• Medium:Painting, Sculpture
• Nationality:

  American

• Life Dates:

  (Long Beach, California, 1941 - )

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Jennifer Bartlett was born in Long Beach, California, in 1941. She received a BA from Mills College, Oakland, and went on to attend Yale, receiving a BFA and MFA by 1965. A painter and printmaker, Bartlett originally worked in a geometric-abstract style. In 1969, inspired by a tiled subway sign, she began constructing works from modular units of 12-inch square steel plates coated with baked white enamel, on which she drew, painted, and plotted graphs. She came to prominence with Rhapsody (1976), a major piece consisting of 987 enameled plates, exhibited as a painting. The work and the artist were recognized as outstanding in the Whitney Museum's landmark exhibition, New Image Painting, in 1978. Since her first solo exhibition in 1974, at the Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Bartlett has been featured in many shows at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Gallery, London; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Baltimore Art Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gallery Mukai, Tokyo; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Her works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Walker Art Center, Minnesota; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among many other public and private collections. Jennifer Bartlett lives and works in New York.