IN MEMORIAM | GRAY mourns the loss of the inimitable American painter, Jennifer Bartlett (1941 - 2022), who passed on July 25 at age 81 in Amagansett, Long Island. Bartlett's history with GRAY began in the 1990s, and included eight solo exhibitions from 1991 until her final show in Chicago in 2008. Titled Amagansett, Bartlett's final exhibition at GRAY debuted a series nine of richly-layered diptych oil paintings. Working from her own photographs, Bartlett's expansive compositions depicted the vast ocean shores, colorful skies, and thickets of marsh grass that populated the area near her home. Reinterpreting her characteristic grid approach yet retaining the same rationalism that has defined her style throughout her career, Bartlett's Amagansett series presents an ideal American homescape while hinting at a darker, perhaps imperfect world. "My own childhood was dark and mysterious," said Bartlett in a BOMB interview with Elizabeth Murray. "The books, movies and art I liked had complexities that I could identify with, and that were not part of the milieu in which I lived. Truffaut, Godard, Fellini, Jean Genet, Violette Leduc, John Cage, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Mingus, Mondrian, Miró, Kandinsky. I felt there was a chance I could do this myself." Jennifer Bartlett was born in 1941 in Long Beach, California, and received her MFA from Yale in 1965. Bartlett first gained widespread recognition following the ambitious 1975 installation, Rhapsody, in which Bartlett attempted to create a painting “that had everything in it,” she said. First exhibited at Paula Cooper Gallery, Rhapsody – now part of MoMA's permanent collection – consisted of 987 steel panels and spanned 150 feet. Bartlett has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among many others. [Caption continued ...]