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Biography

I am an artist known for my  luminous paintings and prints of natural forces. I am fascinated by the most abstract qualities of landscape–storms, clouds, brushfires, and water ripples. A survey of my graphic works, Moments of Change, opened at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond, October 2009 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum in Tucson, 2011.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Trees are Poems that the Earth Writes upon the Sky, Kenise Barnes Fine Art; Summer Blooms, Chicago Art Source; Another Garden, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; and White Light at Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Washington, D.C.   Galleries throughout the United States represent my work including: Addison-Ripley, Washington, D.C.; Chicago Art Source, Chicago, Illinois; Kenise Barnes, Larchmont, New York; and Allyn Gallup, Sarasota, FL. I am the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award, the Warren Tanner Award and the U.S. Fulbright Specialist Program. In 2000, I was invited by Golden Artist Colors to lecture about my work for the Turner Colors Series to art schools and universities throughout Japan. My work is represented in over 500 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; and the United States Embassy Collections, Brazil, Cambodia, Croatia, Jamaica, and Peru.

For the last twenty-five years, I have made a living from my studio practice and am a popular motivational speaker on the challenges of sustaining a successful career in the visual arts. I am 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)

2024  Upcoming: Kenise Barnes Fine Art (June 2024)

2023  Shimmer, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2022  Summer Blooms, Gallery 1781, Chicago, IL

2020-21 White Light, Solo Show, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

               Trees are Poems that the Earth Writes Upon the Sky, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT.  review

2019  One Fine Day, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York catalog

2018  Chasing the Sky, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL. 2 person show with Jennifer Falck Linssen

2017  Branched, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C. 2 person show with Julia Bloom

2015  Mirage, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York (catalog)

2014  Another Garden, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York

2013  Town & Country: Jackie Battenfield & Deborah Brown, Allyn Gallup Gallery, Sarasota, FL

2012  Field Notes, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2011  Moments of Change, Prints by Jackie Battenfield, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2009  Moments of Change, Prints by Jackie Battenfield, Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Moments of Change catalog

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

Permanent Art Commissions  

2017 New York University, Langone Medical Center, Radiation Treatment Suite

         MTA Arts & Design, Avenue P elevated subway station, “F” Line, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Shows

2021

  • 40-4-40, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

2019

  • Cool & Collected, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
  • Summer Picnic, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Holiday Show, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL

2018

  • Crazy Beautiful III, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
  • Flower Power, ODETTA|Garvey|Simon Fine Art, New York, NY

2017

  • Art in Bloom, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

2016

  • Flower Power, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
  • Night and Day the River Flows, Waterscapes from the Harnett Print Study Center Collection, Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
  • Luminous, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont. NY

2015

  • Nature Transformed, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL
  • Natural Allusions, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY

2013

  • You Just Never Know How It Looks Through Other People’s Eyes, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
  • Plumbing the Depths, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • The Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
  • Silhouette, EFA Project Space, New York, NY

2012

  • Light & Life: Contemporary Landscape, 221 East 41 Exhibition Space, NYC   Light&LifeBooklet
  • ♥+ Art,
  • DM Contemporary, NYC
  • Mark Humphrey Gallery, Southampton, NY

2011

  • Awakening, Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ

2010

  • Eastern Influence, Adelle Gandelman Fine Art, White Plains, NY
  • Celebrating Prints, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
  • Summer Exhibition, SHO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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

The American College of Greece, Athens, GR

Babson College, Boston, MA

Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York

Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Princeton, NJ

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Harvey Fierstein, Ridgefield, CT and New York, NY

Dr. Werner Ganz, Bern, Switzerland

Grant Thornton International, San Francisco & New York

Hong Kong Regent Hotel, Hong Kong

Jinling Tower, Nanjing, China

IBM, Armonk, NY

LVMH, San Francisco, CA

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

New York Public Library, NYC

New York University, Langone Center, NY

Osaka Hyatt Hotel, Osaka, Japan

Palace Hotel, Beijing, China

Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA

Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH

Sasaki Collection, Tokyo, Japan

United States of America, Department of State, Embassy Collections

Lima, Peru: 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, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

Wave Hill, Riverdale, New York

G R A N T S / A W A R D S / H O N O R S

2011

  • Fulbright Scholar Program

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