Jennifer Bartlett

Bartlett’s Night and Day presents two adjacent depictions of an “essential” house, a simple geometric form used often in her work from the 1970s as a platform for stylistic exploration and self expression. Her visual language presents a catalog of art-historical styles, from Impressionism and Pointillism to De Stijl and Minimalism. Her rigid layers of line, built up with velvety colors of drypoint, exist in constant dialogue with the overall image. This and Bartlett’s other “house” pictures refer to the homes of family and friends (in this case, a building near her SoHo studio in New York City), and her choices of color, style, and format create a private conceptual portrait of the person who resides there.