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BO BARTLETT
WORKS ON PAPER
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Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to present an online exhibition OF RECENT gouaches on paper by BO BARTLETT
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"While the gouaches may be, as Bartlett himself notes, warm-ups for the large oils, they are quintessentially evocative of the things the artist most treasures at the level of why he paints—how a brush and pencil can carve structure, shoreline, ledge, and human presence from light and air. Gouache, although water-based, is an opaque medium that allows revision and has greater texture than watercolor. It also rewards a certain lightness of touch, as luminosity is enhanced when light hits its multifaceted, chalk-like molecular structure. It is a medium that in skilled hands is conducive to evanescent effects like fog, twilight, blanching sunlight, or the littoral revelations of shorelines between the rise and fall of tides."
- Chris Crosman in "Bo Bartlett: Gouaches"
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"Bartlett himself draws renewal from the sea at his home on Wheaton Island, off the larger Matinicus Island, Maine’s outermost inhabited island, which is located 22 miles from the state’s coast. Each summer, Bartlett and Eby migrate from their home in Columbus, Georgia, to spend the season as the only inhabitants of Wheaton Island, painting in their respective studios tucked along the shoreline."
- Pamela Wall in "Bo Bartlett: Earthly Matters"
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"In Maine, their daily lives revolve around weather and the power of nature. It is an existence in which priorities come into sharp focus on a daily basis. The Bartletts’ seasonal living pattern reminds us that the lives of artists are often quiet and sometimes lonely. Great art requires hard work and countless hours in the studio. Bartlett has crafted a life that provides the time and space to allow his art to flourish, free from the many distractions of the modern world."
- Pamela Wall in "Bo Bartlett: Earthly Matters"
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“All of Bartlett’s gouaches are short, sweet songs sung to himself, softly and clearly, as if others are yet close enough to hear.”
- Chris Crosman in "Bo Bartlett: Gouaches"
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Bo Bartlett Studio, Wheaten Island, Maine
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Bo BartlettBetsy Heading Out to Paint the Open Sea, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches
57.2 x 76.8 cm -
Bo BartlettBetsy Painting at Mermaid Cove at Low Tide, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches
57.2 x 76.8 cm -
Bo BartlettBlueberry Season, 2022Gouache on paper22 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches
56.8 x 76.8 cm -
Bo BartlettMermaid Cove at Low Tide, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 inches
57.2 x 76.2 cm
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Bo BartlettMermaid Cove at Low Tide, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 inches
57.2 x 76.2 cm -
Bo BartlettMonument, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 inches
57.2 x 76.2 cm -
Bo BartlettPainting at No Man Land's, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 1/4 inches
57.2 x 76.8 cm -
Bo BartlettSorceress, 2022Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 inches
57.2 x 76.2 cm
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Music: Icelandic Arpeggios - DivKid
Footage: Bo Bartlett – Artist Documentary: Ineffable - WE AND THE COLOR
Wheaton Island Project (Houses & Barns by John Libby) - Houses and Barns by John LibbyPhotography by Greta Rybus