Jennifer Bartlett: Amagansett Drawings

From August 16 through September 30, 2007 The Drawing Room in East Hampton is pleased to present "Jennifer Bartlett: Amagansett Drawings", an exhibition of recent pastels that capture views of the artist’s wetlands garden over the course of a year, highlighting the changing conditions and shifting moods of fall, winter, spring and early summer.

The fifteen pastels that comprise this powerful body of work reveal Bartlett’s command of her medium and her longstanding interest in, and keen appreciation for gardens as both physical and psychological refuge. Mining the intimate subject of a familiar place for repose with a focal point on two Adirondack chairs that at times seem to substitute for human protagonists, Bartlett has created drawings that evoke poignant emotions, and in some cases mystical forces.

See below for full press release and selected works.