BO BARTLETT | 30 JANUARY - 15 MARCH 2025

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New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Bo Bartlett,” 30 January - 15 March 2025.
BO BARTLETT

Home, 2010

Oil on Linen

88 x 92 inches

223.5 x 233.7 cm

(MMG#36840)
"In Home (2010), we feel the texture of a subject's madras shorts, the elasticity of her red knit headband, the suppleness of her black leather ballet flats, cast aside, and the soothing feel of cool grass on her bare feet and its scratichiness on a boy's knees and palms. We know that time of day when light can penetrate a white linen shirt just so, and we know the quiet that allows a tuckered-out child to lie listening, lost in thought, on the verge of dreamland, perhaps."

- Patrica Junker in "Locus operandi: Home"
BO BARTLETT

School of Charm, 2010

Oil on linen

76 x 90 inches

193 x 228.6 cm

(MMG#36842)
BO BARTLETT

School of the Americas, 2010

Oil on panel

76 x 76 inches

193 x 193 cm

(MMG#36841)
Mermaid Cove (detail), 2022
BO BARTLETT

Mermaid Cove, 2022

Oil on linen

60 x 80 inches

152.4 x 203.2 cm

(MMG#34811)
BO BARTLETT

A Summer Afternoon, 2024

Oil on linen

48 x 66 inches

121.9 x 167.6 cm

(MMG#37216)
"Bartlett's expansive scale offers a cinematic experience where the eye slowly takes in each delicious moment—of an individual's expression, say, of dress and details, of light, and of paint—and wanders, questioningly, across the wide screen. He provides something more than narrative: a sensory experience."

- Patricia Junker in "Locus operandi: Home"
BO BARTLETT

Cold Plunge, 2024

Gouache on paper

22 1/2 x 30 inches

57.2 x 76.2 cm

(MMG#37221)
Saudade (detail), 2024
BO BARTLETT

Saudade, 2024

Oil on linen

70 x 270 inches

177.8 x 685.8 cm

(MMG#37001)
BO BARTLETT

The Painter, 2024

Oil on panel

48 x 60 inches

121.9 x 152.4 cm

(MMG#36989)
BO BARTLETT

The Skippers, 2024

Oil on linen

48 x 66 inches

121.9 x 167.6 cm

(MMG#36988)
Bo Bartlett studio, Wheaton Island, ME, 2023
Bo Bartlett in his studio, Wheaton Island, ME, 2023.

Photo courtesy of Betsy Eby

BO BARTLETT (b. 1955 in Columbus, GA) received his Certificate of Fine Arts in 1981 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a Certificate of Filmmaking from New York University in 1986. In 2023, Bartlett received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from the New York Academy of Art and The Honorary Certificate from the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.

Bartlett has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT; The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; The Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; and the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at numerous institutions including the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; National Arts Club, New York, NY; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz, Austria; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.

Bartlett’s work may be found in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; La Salle University Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, and elsewhere.

Bartlett is the recipient of rewards and accolades including the South Arts Fellowship, South Arts, Atlanta, GA; Atelier Focus Fellowship, Chattahoochee Hills, GA; 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Pew Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, PA; Museum Merit Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Museum Merit Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; and the Benjamin Lanard Memorial Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others.

The artist lives and works in Columbus, GA and Wheaton Island, ME.