Blog # 23,  February 21, 2023   Gallery Hopping NY.  Catherine Abrams

Drawings of Jennifer Bartlett who died recently (July 2022) were on exhibit at Marianne Boesky Gallery. This Yale educated American artist combined Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art in her approach to art.  Walls of drawings on graph paper of schematic house drawings, geometric drawings and color grids became the basis of her work Rhapsody.

Houses, 2005

House, Dots and Hatches, 1999

Rhapsody, MoMA, 2011

Rhapsody. MoMA. 2011

From the Press Release. 2023

The color grid drawings, which the artist began in 1970, incorporate a rainbow of color segments arranged within swaths of metallic paint, as Bartlett explores the effects and patterns she can create using color. In the house drawings, all from 1971, Bartlett employs systems of numbering, language, and color, as she develops the house motif that would feature prominently in her monumental installation Rhapsody (1975-76) and permeate her work for the rest of her career. Bartlett's first solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery in 2019, The House was Quiet and the World was Calm, featured works from 1970 through 2014 that all employed the motif, which embodies both simple geometry and poignant symbolism within its form. 

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