Jackie Battenfield, MIxed Media Collage Watercolor Abstract Painting "Calliope" Woman Artist, 1992

Description

Done in an Asian calligraphy style
Jackie Battenfield was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1950, received her MFA in Visual … more Done in an Asian calligraphy style
Jackie Battenfield was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1950, received her MFA in Visual
Art from Syracuse University (1978) and a BS from Pennsylvania State University (1971). She
currently lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A survey of her graphic works, Moments of Change, was presented at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond (2009), and will travel to the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson in 2011. Galleries throughout the United States represent her work including: Addison-Ripley, Washington, D.C.; Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York; Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, Colorado; and DM Contemporary, New York.
Battenfield has been greatly influenced by Asian art and culture. This is evident in the prints, monotypes, works on paper, and paintings on canvas created by the artist, which are often described as musical, gestural, and spontaneous. Jackie Battenfield is an artist known for her luminous paintings and prints of natural forces.
Her works explore her fascination with the most abstract qualities of landscape--storms, clouds,
brush fires, and water ripples. She has been working with handmade papers from Asia for over twenty years. She relates her mark making to the array of expressive materials and textures imbedded in the paper, such as bamboo leaves, horsehair, and gold leaf, or the rippled edge of a handmade paper. This work is somewhat reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionist work of Sam Francis. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award (1991) and the Warren Tanner Award (1996). Her work is represented in many collections worldwide including the New York Public Library, NY; The Zimmerli Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Palmer Museum, University Park, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and the United States Embassy Collections in Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Jamaica, and Peru


E X H I B I T I O N S
Solo & Two Artist Shows
2018 Chasing the Sky: Jackie Battenfield & Jennifer Falck Linssen
Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL
2017 Branched, Jackie Battenfield & Julia Bloom, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2015 Mirage, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2014 Another Garden, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
2013 Town & Country, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL (with Deborah Brown)
2012 Field Notes, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2011 Moments of Change, University of Arizona Museum, Tucson, AZ


P E R M A N E N T A R T C O M M I S S I O N S
2017 New York University, Langone Medical Center, Radiation Treatment Suite
MTA Arts & Design, Avenue P elevated subway station, “F” Line, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Shows
2018 Crazy Beautiful III, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Flower Power, ODETTAGarveySimon Fine Art, New York, NY
2017 Art in Bloom, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Celebrating Prints, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
Summer Exhibition, SHOgallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Gallery Artists, DM Contemporary, New York, New York
2008 The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, International
Print Center, NYC
2007 American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
United States Embassy, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Cool Art/Hot Summer, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2003 Recent Acquisitions, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
Paper 2003, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Drawings for Peace, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York
Michael Petronko Gallery, New York City
Paper +, Dieu Donne Papermill & Gallery, New York
1997 Generations, A.I.R. Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
Preludes, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
1996 Realism to Abstraction, Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1995 25 Contemporary Artists from New York, Yuki Sun International, Nagoya, Japan
What is a Print? The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
1994 Function Dysfunction, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Monotypes: Not Letting Go of the Ghost, TriBeCa 148 Gallery, New York

G R A N T S / A W A R D S / H O N O R S
2011 Fulbright Scholars Program
2010 David Alfaro Siqueiros Award, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, New York, NY
2009 Arts and Architecture Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University
1996 Warren Tanner Memorial Art Fund Award in Painting
1991 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting

A R T I S T R E S I D E N C I E S
2011 Golden Foundation Residency, New Berlin, NY
2005 Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2003 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
The American College of Greece, Athens, GR
Babson College, Boston, MA
Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Princeton, NJ
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Harvey Fierstein, Ridgefield, CT and New York, NY
Dr. Werner Ganz, Bern, Switzerland
Grant Thornton International, San Francisco & New York
Hong Kong Regent Hotel, Hong Kong
Jinling Tower, Nanjing, China
IBM, Armonk, NY
LVMH, San Francisco, CA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
New York Public Library, NYC
New York University, Langone Center, NY
Osaka Hyatt Hotel, Osaka, Japan
Palace Hotel, Beijing, China
Sasaki Collection, Tokyo, Japan
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

E D U C A T I ON
1978 M.F.A., College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, NY
1971 B.S., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA less