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BO BARTLETT
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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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"Bo Bartlett and his wife, the painter Betsy Eby, spend summers on Wheaton Island in mid-coastal Maine. The studios, their renovated 1905 fisherman’s cottage, and the outbuildings nudge up against the land and rocks like the local puffin nests located on remote Matinicus Rock, a protected wildlife sanctuary housing these small, endangered seabirds. Nearby Matinicus Island is about 22 miles out to sea in the Gulf of Maine. It is the farthest from the mainland of any year-round, inhabited island in the Maine archipelago."
- Chris Crosman in "Bo Bartlett: Gouaches"
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"Looking east across the sea from their small foothold on the island, the view takes on vast connotations that affect their daily lives — transportation, shelter, food, work, rest—and how these are affected by large and small shifts in wind direction. Neither politics nor art seem to matter so much on the island. And weather is a life-and-death topic of conversation."
- Chris Crosman in "Bo Bartlett: Gouaches"
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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 painting at Wedding Rock, 2021Gouache on paper22 9/16 x 30 1/8 inches
57.3 cm x 76.5 cm -
Bo BartlettBetsy painting the high surf of Hurricane Larry, 2021Gouache on paper15 x 22 3/4 inches
38.1 x 57.8 cm -
Bo BartlettConrad, 2021Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 1/8 inches
57.2 x 76.5 cm -
Bo BartlettElsa, 2021Gouache on paper22 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches
56.8 x 76.8 cm
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Bo BartlettHenri, 2021Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 1/8 inches
57.2 x 76.5 cm -
Bo BartlettMermaid Cove, 2021Gouache on paper22 x 30 1/4 inches
55.9 x 76.8 cm -
Bo BartlettThe Admiral, 2021Gouache on paper22 1/2 x 30 1/16 inches
57.2 x 76.7 cm -
Bo BartlettThe Cove, 2021Gouache on paper22 1/16 x 30 1/4 inches
56 x 76.8 cm
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BO BARTLETT
BO BARTLETT (b. 1955, Columbus, GA) received his Certificate of Fine Arts in 1981 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and received a certificate in filmmaking from New York University in 1986.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Forty Years of Drawing”, The Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ; “Paintings and Works on Paper”, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Retrospective”, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; “Paintings from the Outpost”, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME; “Bo Bartlett: American Artist,” The Mennello Museum of American Art and the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY.
Recent group exhibitions include “Extra Ordinary, Magic Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism," Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; “Really.” (curated by Inka Essenhigh & Ryan McGinness), Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; "A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; “Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby,” Ithan Substation No. 1, Villanova, PA; “Truth & Vision: 21st Century Realism,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; “Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World,” Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA; “The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South,” Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.
His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA; Ashville Art Musuem, Ashville, NC; the Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; Carpenter’s Union Hall, Washington, D.C.; Columbus Musuem of Art, Columbus, GA; Crystal Bridges Musuem, Bentonville, AR; Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC.
View MoreBo Bartlett lives and works in Columbus, GA and lives seasonally in Maine.
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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
