June 8: A Conversation on Jennifer Bartlett
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
Featuring Phong H. Bui, Klaus Ottmann, and Raphael Rubinstein, moderated by Eleanor Heartney
Jennifer Bartlett, Squiggle, 2001-2002, oil on 3 canvases, overall: 62 x 160 x 2 in. (157.5 x 406.4 x 5.1 cm)
As part of The New Social Environment, the Brooklyn Rail’s ongoing series of conversations between artists, writers, critics, and poets, Phong H. Bui, Klaus Ottmann, and Raphael Rubinstein joined Eleanor Heartney for a conversation on artist Jennifer Bartlett. The conversation coincided with the artist’s one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery.
Artist, writer, and independent curator Phong H. Bui is Publisher and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, the River Rail, Rail Editions, and Rail Curatorial Projects. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Curatorial Advisor at MoMA PS1.
Curator, critic, academic, and administrator Dr. Klaus Ottmann’s career in the visual arts spans more than 30 years. At The Phillips Collection, he oversees the curatorial department and leads the museum’s University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge. He has curated more than 60 exhibitions internationally and was curator of the 2006 SITE Santa Fe Biennial. In 2013, Ottmann curated JENNIFER BARTLETT: HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE—Works 1970–2011 for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. and in 2020 he authored the catalogue for an exhibition at The Phillips Collection, JENNIFER BARTLETT & PIERRE BONNARD: In and Out of the Garden (which was scheduled to open last summer, but has been postponed).
Art critic and poet Raphael Rubinstein is the author of numerous books including The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces (2007) and The Miraculous (2014). He edited the anthology Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice (2006) and is widely known for his articles on “provisional painting.” He is a Contributing Editor to Art in America, where he was also a Senior Editor. His blog The Silo has been awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and the Best Blog Award of Excellence by the International Association of Art Critics. A Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art, he divides his time between Houston and New York. He is an Editor-at-Large for the Rail.
New York-based art critic Eleanor Heartney is the author of numerous books on contemporary art. Heartney is a Contributing Editor for Art in America and has written extensively for publications including Artnews, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is author of several noteworthy books about art, such as Art & Today (2008), Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2004), co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (2007) (winner of the Susan Koppelman Award), and most recently, Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019). She is an Editor-at-Large for the Rail.