Frances Barth A Painting Conversation: 55 Years - Softcover

Barth, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218648213

Publisher: Frances Barth, 2025

Synopsis

A Painting Conversation: 55 Years presents over five decades of Frances Barth's painting, highlighting the evolution of her distinctive approach to abstraction. From her early bold, expansive compositions to more recent works where form and color interact in layered, dynamic ways, Barth's paintings reveal a deep engagement with space, structure, and surface. The selection, spanning from 1970 to today, offers a focused look at her ability to merge expressive mark-making with a sense of measured precision, creating works that are both visually striking and richly contemplative.

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Frances Barth (b. 1946, The Bronx) is an American visual artist best known for paintings situated between abstraction, landscape and mapping. In her later career, she has she expanded her practice to include video and narrative work. Her awards include: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2017; Elected into the National Academy, 2011; Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, 2006; American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, 2004; American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, 1999; Joan Mitchell Award, 1995; Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, 1993; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1982; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1977; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974; Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Grant, 1973.Barth received her advanced degrees in painting and art history from Hunter College, CUNY, and has been working and showing her painting in New York and internationally since the 1960s.

Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and critic. The author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Giorgio Morandi, and Hans Hofmann, she has organized exhibitions of their work internationally. She is a Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and contributes regularly to the New Criterion and the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Wilkin teaches in the New York Studio School's M.F.A program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frances Barth
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218648213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48