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Biography
Jackie Battenfield is an artist known for her luminously colored paintings and prints of natural forces. Her works explore her fascination with the most abstract qualities of landscape–storms, clouds, brushfires, and water ripples. A survey of her graphic works, Moments of Change, opened at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond, October 2009.
Galleries throughout the United States represent her work including: Addison-Ripley, Washington, D.C.; Addington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; DM Contemporary, New York; and Allyn Gallup, Sarasota, FL. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award (1991) and the Warren Tanner Award (1996). In 2000, she was invited by Golden Artist Colors to lecture about her work for the Turner Colors Series to art schools and universities throughout Japan. Her work is represented in over 1000 collections worldwide including: The New York Public Library, New York; The Zimmerli Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Palmer Museum, Pennsylvania; Museum of Art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; and the United States Embassy Collections, Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Jamaica, and Peru.
For the last twenty years, Jackie has made a living from her art and is a popular motivational speaker on the challenges of sustaining a successful career in the visual arts. Battenfield is the author of The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, Da Capo Press, 2009.
Curriculum Vitae
E X H I B I T I O N S
Solo & Two Artist Shows (Selected)
2009
- Moments of Change, Prints by Jackie Battenfield, Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA - Download the full Moments of Change PDF (44.2 MB)
2006
- Shadow Play, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2004
- Hothouse, DM Contemporary, Mill Neck, NY
- Tiptoe Motion, GwendaJayAddington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
- Day Burn, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
2001
- Piedmont Arts Association, Piedmont, VA
2000
- Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1999
- Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
- Watermarks, Gallery CDS, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
1998
- Water’s Edge, Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, OH
- Roots & Wings, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
- New Paintings & Works on Paper, Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Gestures, Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1997
- Jackie Battenfield & Cecily Kahn: Recent Work, The Painting Center, NY
1996
- Nelson Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1995
- Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
1994
- Fire & Water, Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
- Mizu, The Sounds of Water, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
- Geometry & Gesture: Battenfield & Martin, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
- Natural Forces, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Selected Group Shows since 2000
2008
- The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, International Print Center, NYC
- Uncommon Ground, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2007
- Michelle Mosko Gallery, Denver, CO
2006
- Summer Rotation II, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
- Lots of Landscapes, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
- Four Printmakers, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
- Invisible Threads, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2005
- Cool Art/Hot Summer, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
- The Color of Night: How Artists Work With Darkness, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
2003
- Recent Acquisitions, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
2001
- Power in my Hand: Works on Paper by Women Artists from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
2000
- Significant Impressions, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
- Palimpsest, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina State University, Asheville, NC
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
- Babson College, Boston, MA
- Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Princeton, NJ
- Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
- Hong Kong Regent Hotel, Hong Kong
- Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
- New York Public Library, NYC
- Osaka Hyatt Hotel, Osaka, Japan
- Palace Hotel, Beijing, China
- Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
- Progressive Corporation, OH
- Sasaki Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- United States of America, Department of State, Embassy Collections: Lima, Peru; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Zaghreb, Croatia
- University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
- University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
- The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, N.J.
G R A N T S / A W A R D S / H O N O R S
2009
- Arts and Architecture Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University
2006-08
- Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
2006
- Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts
- New York Foundation for the Arts – Fiscal Sponsorship for An Artist’s Career Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
1996
- Warren Tanner Memorial Art Fund Award in Painting
1991
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting
E D U C A T I ON
1978
- MFA, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, New York
1971
- BS, Pennsylvania State University, University Park