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Jennifer Bartlett: Early Plate Work
by Brenda Richardson
from Addison
In 1968 artist Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) began painting in what would become her celebrated and trademark style––colored dots on gridded steel plates and canvas. Focusing on the single and multi-plate pieces that began in 1968 and culminated in 1976 when Bartlett sprang onto the art scene with her pivotal Rhapsody painting (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), this important book analyzes for the first time the significant role these formative and long-overlooked works played in her artistic development.
Analytical and lyrical, Bartlett’s early plate work reflects her transformation of the prevailing Minimalist aesthetic into something distinctly her own. With beautiful color illustrations of this body of work––many of which have never before been published or exhibited––the book charts Bartlett’s fascinating progression from mathematically precise dot paintings to rigorously structured patterned pieces to more freehand and expressive painterly pieces. In the process, the importance of these works to the artist's career and to the history of contemporary art is discovered.
Analytical and lyrical, Bartlett’s early plate work reflects her transformation of the prevailing Minimalist aesthetic into something distinctly her own. With beautiful color illustrations of this body of work––many of which have never before been published or exhibited––the book charts Bartlett’s fascinating progression from mathematically precise dot paintings to rigorously structured patterned pieces to more freehand and expressive painterly pieces. In the process, the importance of these works to the artist's career and to the history of contemporary art is discovered.
Jennifer Bartlett: At the Lake, Up the Creek, In the Garden [Tate Gallery Exhibition, 17 Nov. 1982 - 13 Feb. 1983]
![Jennifer Bartlett: At the Lake, Up the Creek, In the Garden [Tate Gallery Exhibition, 17 Nov. 1982 - 13 Feb. 1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S435BPPHL._SL160_.jpg)
from London: Tate Gallery
Foreword by Alan Bowness. 16 pg. stapled booklet; color illus.
Jennifer Bartlett: Writings (Spring Publications)
Jennifer Bartlett emerged as one of the most important artists of the 1970s and 1980s. When her monumental painting Rhapsody was first shown in 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, it became one of the most successful works of art in recent times. Jennifer Bartlett: Writings combines her acclaimed 1985 autobiographical novel House of the Universe with an early, conceptual poem from 1971, Cleopatra. Currently her work is on display at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, amongst others.
In the Garden
by Jeniffer Bartlett
from Harry N Abrams
Jennifer Bartlett Paintings: November 8 - December 28, 2002
Jennifer Bartlett Rhapsody
by Roberta Smith
from Harry N Abrams
Reflections: New conceptions of nature : May 25-July 3, 1984, Hillwood Art Gallery, School of the Arts, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York : Jennifer Bartlett ... [et al.]
Jennifer Bartlett: Recent work
Jennifer Bartlett: Painting the Language of Nature and Painting
Reconnecting: Recent Work by Jennifer Bartlett/Mel Bochner/Nancy Graves/Patrick Ireland/Lucio Possio : Detroit Institute of Arts, June 12-Sept 27,87
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