New York artist Jackie Battenfield has been greatly influenced by Asian art and culture. This is evident in the prints, monotypes, works on paper, and paintings on canvas created by the artist, which are often described as musical, gestural, and spontaneous. A 1991 winner of a painting grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Battenfield’s work is included in corporate and private collection in numerous countries including The United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and Switzerland; as well as several museums such as the Montclair Art Museum and the New York Public Library. Battenfield is also the author of the book, The Artists Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What you Love.
April Frost, 2022, acrylic on mylar panel, 50 x 40 inches
Aria cs2, 2023, acrylic on mylar panel, 40 x 30 inches
Evening Haze cs1, 2020, acrylic on mylar panel, 16 x 20 inches
Nearly Eventide, 2021, acrylic on mylar panel, 40 x 60 inches
Silken Spirit, 2023, acrylic on mylar panel, 40 x 50 inches
Sun & Smoke cs1, 2016, acrylic on mylar panel, 30 x 40 inches
Lucid Dream cs2, 2018, oil on mylar panel, 30 x 40 inches
All a Quiver, 2022, acrylic on mylar panel, diptych, 30 x 80 inches
Airy Grace, 2018, acrylic on Mylar panel, 50 x 40 inches
Ghost Blossom cs1, 2015, acrylic on mylar panel, 20 x 30 inches
Small Entwine, 2011, acrylic on mylar panel, 20 x 30 inches
E X H I B I T I O N S
Solo & Two Artist Shows
2020: White Light, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC, December 2020
2017 Branched, Jackie Battenfield & Julia Bloom, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2015 Mirage, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2014 Another Garden, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
2013 Town & Country, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL with Deborah Brown
2012 Field Notes, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2011 Moments of Change, University of Arizona Museum, Tucson, AZ
Mark Humphrey Gallery, Southampton, NY
2009 Moments of Change, Prints by Jackie Battenfield
Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2006 Shadow Play, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2004 Hothouse, DM Contemporary, Mill Neck, NY
Tiptoe Motion, GwendaJayAddington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Day Burn, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2001 Piedmont Arts Association, Piedmont, VA
2000 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1999 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Four Breaths, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
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 Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Gestures, Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1997 Jackie Battenfield & Cecily Kahn: Recent Work, The Painting Center, NY, NY
1996 Nelson Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1995 Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
1994 Fire & Water, Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993-5 MIZU, The Sounds of Water, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA Traveled to The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire; Chicago Center for the Print, Chicago,IL;
Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco; Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
1993 Geometry & Gesture: Battenfield & Martin, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Natural Forces, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Focus on the Artist, FGIC Gallery, New York
1990 Dreams & Schemes, DTW Gallery, New York
1981 Space Arcs, Invitational, Hera Cooperative Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1980 Recent Work, Invitational, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Selected Group Shows
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
Summer Show, DM Contemporary, New York, NY
Natural Allusions, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Sense of Place, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
2013 You Never Know Just How it Looks Through Other People’s Eyes Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
The Summer Show, DM Contemporary, NY, NY
Plumbing the Depths, Addington, Gallery, Chicago, IL
Silhouette, EFA Project Space, NY, NY
Light & Life: Contemporary Landscape, 222 East 41st Street Space, New York, NY
2012 ♥+ Art, DM Contemporary, New York, New York
2011 Awakening, Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
DM Contemporary, New York, NY
Connections, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2010 Eastern Influence, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, White Plains, NY
Celebrating Prints, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
Summer Exhibition, SHOgallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Gallery Artists, DM Contemporary, New York, New York
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 American Institute in Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
United States Embassy, Tel Aviv, Israel
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, NJ
2004 Dealers Choice, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Four New York Artists, Patrick Olson Gallery, Plymouth, MI
Newer Genres, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
2003 Recent Acquisitions, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
Paper 2003, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Drawings for Peace, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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.
Erickson & Elins Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Palimpsest, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina State University, Asheville, NC
Helen Basilevsky Gallery, Nightingale-Bamford School, New York
New Abstraction, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1999 Nelson Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Take Out/Eat In, Molloy College Art Gallery, Rockville Centre, Long Island
The Paper Show, Harnett Murray Gallery, New York City
10 X 10, Addison/Ripley Fine Art & E.C. May and Company, Washington, D.C.
1998 The Preview Show, Harnett Murray Gallery, New York City
A Sampling of Recent American Prints, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Michael Petronko Gallery, New York City
Paper +, Dieu Donne Papermill & Gallery, New York
Artist as Curator, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 Generations, A.I.R. Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
Preludes, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA
1996 Realism to Abstraction, Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1995-6 Curator as Artist/Artist as Curator, Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Bergen, NJ
1995 25 Contemporary Artists from New York, Yuki Sun International, Nagoya, Japan
What is a Print? The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
1994 New Works on Paper Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA, (3 person show)
Function Dysfunction, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Monotypes: Not Letting Go of the Ghost, TriBeCa 148 Gallery, New York
Revised Context, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Change is in the Air, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Beauty, University Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Introductions, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Introductions: 3 New Gallery Artists, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1992 Winter Politics, One Square Mile Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY
The 1.5 Show, Muranushi/Lederman Productions, TriBeCa 148 Gallery, New York
1990 Marks of Vision, Harmony Hall Regional Center Gallery, Fort Washington, MD
1987 Abstraction, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York
1986 Multiple Choice, Art In General, New York
G R A N T S / A W A R D S / H O N O R S
2011 Fulbright Scholars Program
2010 David Alfaro Siqueiros Award, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, New York, NY
2009 Arts and Architecture Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University
1996 Warren Tanner Memorial Art Fund Award in Painting
1991 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting
A R T I S T R E S I D E N C I E S
2005 Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2003 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
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
Cablevision, Long Island, NY
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
LVMH, San Francisco, CA
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, 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.
P U B L I C A T I O N S / R E V I E W S / B I B L I O G R A P H Y
2009 Author, The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love, DaCapo Press
2015 Featured listing, Mirage at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, with image, Blue Scoops, The New York Times, June 21
Jenkins, Mark, “Rooted in Nature but Not Always Natural,” art review The Washington Post, March 6
2012 Jenkins, Mark, “Jackie Battenfield Field Notes”, art review, The Washington Post, May 18
2009 Princenthal, Nancy, Moments of Change, catalog, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2008 Kushner, Marilyn S., The Future Must Be Sweet, catalog
2006 Villafuerte-Abonal, Lalaine, Abaca Philipines, catalog, Apples of Gold Publishing pg 256-7
Donohoe, Victoria, “art Review, Haverford College,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, illus.
2005 Costello, Kevin, “Fresh talent energizes ‘Cool Art/Hot Summer’”, Herald-Tribune, August
2004 Lagorio, Christine, “The Work of Art” Village Voice, August 4-10, pg. 51
Drury, Amalie, “City Art”, CS: Chicago Social, February 2004, illustration, page 38
Aiglon, Kelly, WHERE Chicago Magazine, February 2004, illustration, page 27
2000 Monotypes in Contemporary American Printmaking, From the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Fall/Winter newsletter,
Hirsch, Faye, “Working Proof”, Art on Paper, Vol.4.No.5, May-June 2000, pg.70, (illus.)
1999 Braff, Phyllis, “Works on Paper, With a Difference,” The New York Times, February 21
(b&w illus.) Review of Molloy College exhibition, “Take Out/Eat In”
New American Paintings, No.20, The Open Studios Press, pages 8-11 (color illus.)
1998 Hirsch, Faye, “Working Proof,” Art On Paper, Vol.3, No.2 Nov-Dec. 1998, pg. 51
Inquiring Mind, Fall 1998, vol. 15, no. 1, pages 22 & 23, (b&w illus.)
Sparks, Amy Bracken, “Artists delve into Liquidity,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, October
Buchholz, Barbara B., “gallery watch,” The Chicago Tribune, July 10
Brody, Jacqueline, Paper +, exhibition catalog, Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC
1997 Rohrer-Dann, Mary, “Business 101 for Artists,” The Penn Stater, September/October 1997
1996 Raynor, Vivian,” …The Twain May (or May Not) Meet,” The New York Times, January 28 Review of Artist as Curator/Curator as Artist
Landsman,Judith, Artist as Curator/Curator as Artist, exhibition catalog, interview
1995 Melrod, George, “Exploring Nature and Line as Metaphor,” ART & ANTIQUES, Feb.
1994 Robins, Corrinne, Monotypes: Not Giving Up The Ghost, exhibition catalog, TriBeCa 148 Gallery, Art Initiatives, New York
Gardner, Christine , “Envisioning Sounds,” Seacoast Times, New Hampshire, March 21
1993 Roberts-Pullen, Paulette, “Still Waters,” Richmond Lifestyle Weekly, September 21 (illus.)
Waller, Richard, Jackie Battenfield: MIZU: The Sounds of Water, exhibition catalog,
Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
E D U C A T I ON
1978 M.F.A., College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, NY
1971 B.S., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
