ABOUT

CHRISTINE GILMORE BARTH

Minimalism and Conceptual Art dominated the New York art world in the late 1960’s, and I was at the heart of the action, attending the School of Visual Arts (SVA) which at the time, was graced with a pantheon of famous Minimalist and Conceptual artists teaching in its burgeoning fine arts program. I took everything that I learned at SVA and went on to receive an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, but the direction of my art was forged by a singular life changing event in New York City. On October 17, 1969, I was invited to the opening of “New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970,” the first exhibition of contemporary art curated by visionary Henry Geldzahler to mark the inauguration of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That night I witnessed history in the making, the dawning of a new era for the New York art world. In a brilliant and agressive move, Geldzahler took over half of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, filling 40 galleries with 408 Modern works displayed chronologically from Pollack to Warhol.The show was dazzling and transcendent. Barnett Newman’s 18 foot-long “Heroicus Sublimus” shook me to the core. I could hear people in the crowd murmuring “I don’t get it,” while I keep thinking “I get it….and it’s got me!”

For forty five years I have almost exclusively worked with the line in a grid format over powerful, meaningful colors. It is a journey I still explore today.

Education

BTB Feng Shui School

2007. Certified Feng Shui Practitioner

New York, New York and San Francisco, California

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MFA of Fine Arts in Painting 1973, Chicago, Illinois

School of Visual Arts

1971, Certificate of Fine Arts, NYC NY

Exhibitions

Affiliations: Katonah Museum of Artists Association

2014 November 9 – December 2, Katonah Village Library  26 Bedford Road, Katonah, NY

2014 Natural Instincts: the Natural World Around UsGallery in the Park, September 13 – October 29, Curated and Juried by Kenise Barnes, Director of Kenise Barnes Fine Arts Ward Pound Ridge ReservationPound Ridge, New York

2014 Made at Reis, May 14 – 18 Reis Studio 43 – 01 22nd Street Long Island City, New York

2014 Knarr/Vikings, April 14 - May 16 Curated by Carin Riley, Queens College Art Center/ Rosenthal Library 65 – 30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, New York

GROup EXHIBITIONS

2020 Renewal: Upstream Gallery, National Juried small works show Hastings on Hudson, New York

2019 Upstream Gallery, 25th National Juried small works show Hastings on Hudson, New York

2017 Upstream Gallery, 23rd National Juried small works show Hastings on Hudson, New York

2016 Silvermine Art Center, National Juried show, curated by Steven Sergiovanni, New York City Art Advisor, New Canaan, Connecticut

2016 Mamaronick Artists Guild | National Juried show, curated by Kenis Barnes Director of Kenis Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York

2016 Upstream Gallery, 22nd National Juried small works show Hastings on Hudson, New York

2015 Line Describing a Cone, Katonah Museum of Art, Tri-State Juried Exhibition Katonah, New York, Eva Respini Juror, Curator at the Museum of Modern Art

2015 Time and Place, Hammond Museum North Salem, New York

2014 Three Painters, September 30, 2010 – May 31, Cristina Dos Santos Inc 39 North Moore Street, New York New York