Jeanette Fintz latest series of large-scale paintings, “Balance and Beam - Locus in Transit”, were created during the year of the pandemic. The artist explains “these paintings are about giving structure to something intangible, ephemeral, in-flux or conversely, revealing the dissolving of structure that has been.” As an abstract artist, Fintz has long been interested in the contrast of hard-edged planar geometry (circles, squares, hexagons) existing within an atmospheric field where shapes can float or hold the plane, in a space that appears expansive, transient, and increasingly released from the canvas’s edge.A calculated use of opacity and transparency resulting from fluid washes of acrylic create an atmosphere where fragmented geometry becomes “a vocabulary of gestures”. The Blue Mother Drawings are a series of new works on paper that were “inspired by an increased awareness and gratefulness to the natural world for its capacity to heal the spirit during the early days of the pandemic”. Together with a series of 12-inch wood panels called The Green Mother Paintings based on the rotation, scaling and iteration of 6 circles, these two groups honor the greens and blues of a healthy planet that emerged as a positive by-product of the pandemic. A native New Yorker, Fintz currently lives and works in Hudson. She received her MFA from Boston University SFA and her BA from Queens College CUNY. She attended The New York Studio School, and Skowhegan School. Fintz taught Art & Design in the School of Design Strategies at Parson’s New School for Design for 18 years where she received two sabbaticals to travel Spain and Turkey to research patterning systems, and was founding faculty of Parsons affiliate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she sojourned for a year. She taught painting and drawing in the BFA program at SUNY Purchase for 12 years. She is the recipient of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for painting, the NYFA Fellowship for Works on Paper, the ED Foundation Award for Painting, the Emil & Dines Carlsen Award from the National Academy of Design and is a fellow of the Millay Colony, the MacDowell Colony and Ucross Foundation. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, who resides and paints in Hudson, New York in the upper Hudson River Valley. She is also an arts writer and independent curator. The intermix of being a native New Yorker and now, happily, a resident of the lush Hudson River Valley is evident in her work, which combines an urban edginess with the lyrical influences of her natural surroundings.Ms. Fintz was born in Brooklyn NY, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. Her personal amalgam of NY School formalist principles, and love of natural light and color was initially forged during her summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where she painted from the Maine landscape. Ms. Fintz lived and worked in the artist communities of Tribeca and Williamsburg, exhibiting regularly in NYC. Jeanette in part, credits the importance of natural light for her decision to transplant home and studio to Surprise.Ms Fintz has filtered nature through her urban sensibility, stretching color motifs towards the heightened and intensified palette often found in the realms of design and fashion. Her pieces have a rhythmic impact stemming both from her enjoyment of jazz and polyrhythms of Brazilian and Indian origin, which she also sees displayed in the visual rhythms found in textiles and Islamic tile patterns. Jeanette’s involvement with these resources was enhanced by sabbatical travel to Spain’s Andalusia Region (2005 & 2009) to investigate patterning systems found in Moorish tiles and architecture, and to Turkey (2013), where she focused on the Iznik, Byzantine and Greco-Roman tiles and frescoes. Jeanette also had immersed herself in textile patterns and Ikat designs during her yearlong sojourn in Malaysia, where she was founding faculty in a new Parsons School of Design affiliate in Kuala Lumpur (1996-97).The intuitive rhythmic order of Jeanette’s paintings prior to 2009 which featured repetitive lines, circles and ellipses clashing with fluid gestural streams of color have given way fully in the new work to a given crystalline geometric substructure that unifies all visual events. This work embraces and employs the Oneness found in sacred geometry as the underpinning for improvised pathways that give each work its uniqueness. Shapes that are found have a “role” to play, to riff off some of Jeanette’s series titles. The earlier pieces acknowledge through the unexpected visual event, the imperfection of the human condition while the newer geometries strive for the expression of spiritual wholeness and connection. Selected Solo Exhibitions2017 “Worldline Schreiber Paintings, plus...," Garvey/Simon Gallery 547 W 27th St, New York, NY2016 "The Presence of the Invisible Proposition," Koussevitsky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA2012 "Andalusian Shards," The Wall Street Journal Bldg Lobby, New York, NY2012 "The Plaid Paintings," Rodale Press Bldg. Lobby, 733 3rd Avenue, Durst Organization, New York, NY2004 A. D. D. Gallery Hudson, NY2002 Hudson Opera House Hudson, NY2001 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VTGallery 1708, Richmond, VA2000 A. D. D. Gallery, Hudson, NY1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY1997 Gallerie Taksu Kuala Lumpur, MY1992 The Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY1986 Ohio St University1985 55 Mercer ST Gallery, New York, NY1984 Hobart & William Smith Colleges1979 Prince ST Gallery, New York, NYHobart & William Smith Colleges Selected Group Exhibitions2021 New Work, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2019 PULSE, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY2018 The Greatest Show On Earth, Sideshow, Williamsburg NY2018 Hygge, CrossContemporary, Saugerties NY2017 "Summer Show," Hal Bromm Gallery July 12- Sept 15,20172017 En Masse 4 ThompsonGiroux Gallery Chatham NY2017 Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, 90 West Broadway, New York, NY2017 GAMUT, Jeffrey Bishop, Jeanette Fintz, Matthew Langley, Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY2017 A Declaration of Sentiments: Reflections on the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY2017 Thru The Rabbit Hole 2, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY2016 En Masse 3, Thompson Giroux, Chatham, NY2016 Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley 5, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY2015 Remains to be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA2015 En Masse#2 Thompson Giorux, Chatham, NY2015 Off The Grid Concourse A, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY2015 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY2015 Longitude & Latitude, Jeanette Fintz & D. Jack Solomon, Broderick Fine Art, Freehold NY2015 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY2015 Taking Root: Caniskek & the Meeting of Two Worlds, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY2015 Circle The Wagons, Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY2014 En Masse Thompson Giroux, Chatham, NY2014 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY2014 We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY2014 Sideshow Nation II Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY2013 Shape Shifter, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY2013 Sideshow Nation Sideshow Williamsburg, NY2012 Abstract & Concrete, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY2012 Jeanette Fintz D. Jack Solomon, Fox Gallery, New York, NY2012 MIC Check Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY2006-12 Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley #s1- 4, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY2010 Charged Brushes, Painting Center, New York, NY2011 It's all Good! -Apocalypse Now, Sideshow Gallery, Wlliamsburg, NY2010 View Four, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY2010 Prince Street Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition, 530 W 25th Street, New York, NY2010 It's a Wonderful10th Anniversary ! Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY2009 The Breakfast Club, GCCA, Catskill, NY2009 Surface Tension, Albany International Airport, Concourse A, Albany, NY2009 The Affordable Art Fair,New York, NY2008 The Millay Colony for Arts 35th Anniversary Invitational, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY2008 National Academy of Design 183rd Annual Invitational, New York, NY2008 “Locally Grown”, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY2008 “Peace” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY2007 “This End Up” 3 Person Exhibition, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY2007 “Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley 2”, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY2006 “Cowgirls of the Hudson” Valley, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NYCurator, Richard Timperio2006 “Jeanette Fintz & D. Jack Solomon," Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY2006 Three Person Exhibition, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY2006 “Informed Color," BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY2006 “13th Anniversary Show," The Painting Center 52 Green St.,New York, NY2005 Small Works, Bond Gallery, New York, NYInvitational, Richard Sena Gallery, Hudson, NY“Abstracts” -Columbia County Council for the Arts, Hudson, NY2004 “Nature Abstracted” -The Painting Center, New York, NY“New Hudson, New York," Carl Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NYCarl Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NYGroup Painting Invitational, A. D. D. Gallery Hudson NYMillay Colony for the Arts 30th Anniversary Exhibition Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY2003 "Resilience," Richard Sena Gallery, Hudson, NYMohawk-Hudson Regional - University Art Museum,SUNY Albany, NY2002 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY“Haven," Arts Center for the Capitol Region, Troy NYSouthern Vermont Arts Center Manchester, VT2001 “Fundamental Change," A. D. D. Gallery, Hudson NY2000Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY1997 Valentine Willie Fine Arts, Bangsar KL MY1996Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur MY1995 Mohawk-Hudson Regional, Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY1994“Out of Line 2,"The Police Building, New York, NY1993“Out of Line1” PS 122, New York, NY1992 Invitational Art In General, New York, NY, Curator :Holly Bock,1988 “Nature in Art," One Penn Plaza New York, NY, Curator: Ronny Cohen1986 “Structure and Metaphor," Warm Gallery Minneapolis, MN1986-84 Painting Invitational, John Davis Gallery Akron, OH1985 Painting Invitational, Pam Adler Gallery, NewYork, NY CollectionsPar Capital Management Boston MAVYV Apartments, Luxury High Rise, Jersey City, NJBoca Raton Yacht Club, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Boca Raton, FLLiberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, MA, and Plano, TXRobert A.M. Stern Architectural Project, Washington DCCapital G Bank Hamilton, BermudaBrigham & Women's Hospital, Foxboro, MAWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Boston, MAPosternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MAHale & Dorr, Boston, MAAnalysis Group, Boston, MANational Televison, 7 Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaChristmas Island Phosphate, SingaporeJewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles CARabobank NYC Commerzbank, New York, NYCommerzbank 2, World Financial Center, New York, NYNational Television 7, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaHobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NYSkowhegan School, Skowhegan, MaineCollection of Minister of Agriculture Datuk Effendi & Datin NorwawiCollection of the Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr MahathirMohamed of MalaysiaJim & Debbie Ellickson -Brown, Cultural Attache, AmericanEmbassy, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (1996)Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, MYSuherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, MY & SingaporeValentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, MYAloysious Goh, SingaporeBetsey Swan & Chris Calder, Albuquerque NMCarrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NYAlbert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CABarbel & Peter Starz, Toulouse, FRClarissa & Jean Kueller, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMr. & Mrs. Andre Keller, K L, MY & Geneva, SwitzerlandShirley Greitzer, Esq. Washington DCMark Meltzer, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CAJoel & Fran Soroka, Aspen, ColoradoEstate of Hella and Carl Ossenberg, NYC & Palm Beach, FLEstate of Gabriel Laderman, New York, NYStephen Westfall, New York, NYDr & Mrs Joseph Delisi, Lake Hopatcong, NJDr & Mrs Chris Calder & Besty Swan, Menands, NYCarol & Joachim Frank, NY, NYMark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CAGeorge A Schulman, Los Angeles, CAGerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CACaryl Horn, Port Richmond, CAJoe & Cathy Plumber, Cold Spring, NYMolly Doland, Esq. Washington DCBethany Beardslee Winham, Rhinebeck, NYDavid Fox & Associates, Inc. Briarcliff Manor, NYEric & Carolyn Egas, Greenviille, NY & Vieques, PRJin Zeng, New York, NY Selected Grants and Awards include2015 EYP Architecture & Engineering Award, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region2015 Trustees Award, Albany Institute of History & Art2013 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School For Design2008 The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award / Painting, National Academy of Design2005 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School for School Design2005 Sudden Opportunity Stipend2003 Faculty Development Award, Parsons, the New School for School for Design1995-92 Sudden Opportunity Stipend, NYFA Rensselaer County Council for the Arts1993 N Y F A, Artists Fellowship / Drawing1990 E. D. Foundation Grant / Painting1984 Ludwig Vogelstein Grant / Painting1980 The Ingram Merrill Award / Painting1975 Purchase Prize, Painting, Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYFreeling Isa, “Worldline Schreiber Paintings by Jeanette Fintz at GarveySimon," Art & Culture, The Huffington Post, October 12, 2017Read article>>WSI “Worldline Schreiber Paintings _Sept 7-Oct 7, 2017 GarveySimon Gallery NY USA," Wall Street International, Art, Sept 14, 2017Read article>>Ratcliff, Carter, “Vital Geometries” catalog essay, “Worldline Schreiber Paintings… plus," Garvey/Simon, New York, NY, Sept 7-Oct 7 2017Smart, Paul, Art, The Woodstock Times, “Ritual of Construction at Kleinert,” p20, May 18, 2017Barton,P. - "The Presence Of the Invisible Proposition," Catalog essay, p. 5-11, April 2016Westfall,Stephen - "Jeanette Fintz, Perceptual Motion," Catalog essay, p. 2-3, April 2012Occhiogrosso, Peter, Art & About, Hudson River Museum & Gallery Guide, Fall 2006, Informed Color at BRIK Gallery Catskill, NY, p.20Brickman David, “The Round Table," WAMC radio, Informed Color at BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, July 18, 2006Hudson River Art - Fall-Winter2004, Vol.3: Sightings “From The First," Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY," acrylic/canvas by Jeanette Fintz, photo, p34Walentini, J - http://www.abartonline.com/html/nyviews_3_p4.html,”Nature Abstracted," The Painting Canter NYC, review, photo, Dec 1, 2004Luzajic, L.- http://www.ideamuseum.net/index2.htm “Jeanette Fintz," feature article, March 2003Barton, P. – The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, August 2002, cover feature article, p.28 -29 "True Colors”Eckhoff, S - Arts & Antiques -Register Star, Hudson, NY Fri. May 21,1999 p. A-10: "The Pleasure of Stripes - Fintz’s Abstract Paintings"Christudas, Sam - The Arts - The New Straits Times, KL, MY, Wed. Sept. 24,1999, A-3 "Venturing Into A New Dimension"Halliday, Janet - The Arts - Day and Night, KL, MY, June 23-29,1999, p.14 & 51 "Colour And Feelling”Anu, Jay - Arts- Sunday Plus - The Arts, The Star, KL, MY, Dec 15, 1996, p.18, "An Experience of Many Hues”Wright, Churchill, Peg - "Brushmarks" - Arts & Entertainment - The Daily Gazette, Schenectady Thurs. November 17, 1994 - p. A- 9, "A Bold Show In Plaid"Kreiner, Rich - "Art" - Metroland, Albany NY, Dec 1 - 7,1994 - "Color Loaded," Jeanette Fintz and Fumiko ShidoJaeger, W. - Art Review - SHOWTIME - The Times Union, Albany, Sunday, Dec. 18,1994 – p.H-2 "Fintz's paintings not only pretty"Cohen, Ronny - Leslie Urbach Gallery, Albany, NY - Nov-Dec 1994 - "Jeanette Fintz -Paintings," (catalogue)Myers, Terry - The Police Building, NYC, April, 1994 -"Out of Line - II," (catalogue)Jaeger, William - Art Review - ENTERTAINMENT - The Times Union, Albany, March 12, 1994 - p. D -5 “Artists' Nature' presents moving, beautiful show in Catskill gallery"Princenthal, Nancy - PS 122 Gallery, NYC - March 1993 - essay for the show "Out of Line -4 Abstract Painters"Lail, Thomas - Art Review - PREVIEW - The Times Union, Albany, Thursday, Aug 27, 1992, p.27 "Cross and Fintz Display Artists' Process"Martin, Mary Abbe - Reviews - Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Feb. 2, 1986, p.36Cohen, Ronny - Warm Gallery, Minn. MN, 1986, "Structure and Metaphor, Six Contemporary Visions," (catalogue)Westfall, Stephen - Reviews - Arts Magazine, September 1985 - p. 40Westfall, Stephen - Reviews - Arts Magazine, Summer 1985 - p. 36PUBLISHED REVIEWS & ESSAYSFintz, Jeanette “The Ritual of Construction," catalog essay, Kleinert James Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, May-July 2017Fintz, J - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, July 2006 p. 13- "Informed Color at BRIK Gallery," Catskill, NY curator’s statementFintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Dec 2005, p.28, ”Catskill’s New Vision,” No Place like Home, BRIK Gallery, 473 Main Street, Catskill, NYFintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Nov 2005 p.34 “Cutting To the Spirit- The New Emerging From the Old," Lu Shengzhong, University Art Museum, Albany, NYFintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Oct 2005 p. 22 “Cosmic Road Signs," Adolph Golttlieb The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NYFintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Sept 2005 p. 31 “Overlooked Expressionists” Betty Parson’s Women, Oplaka Gallery, Sage Colleges, Albany, NYFintz, J. – The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, May 2004 p.10-11 “Idiomatic Expressions," Bogdan & Erickson at Van Brunt BeaconFintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Nov.2003 p.8 “Reading Space," Roger Shepherd at A D D, Gallery, Hudso,n NYFintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Sept.2003, p.8 ”Circumferences” Brown & Isherwood at TSL, Hudson, NYFintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, June 2003, p.8 ”Time’sTexture," Al & Jean Strausman at Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NYFintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Apr. 2003, p.11 “Marking Space-MakingTime"B. Stiglich, at Arts Center/ Capitol Region,Troy, NY & V. Pomilio at Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NYFintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Jan. 2003, p. 6 “ Departures, Arrivals & Pitstop s- Jean Feinberg, Susan Mastrangelo & Joan Grubin at A D D Gallery”Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA, Dec. 2002, p.6 ” Two Hats-Tony Thompson At RPI”Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA, Oct. 2002, p.6-7 ” Life Lines- David Eddy & Doug Clow”Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA,Sept. 2002, p.6 “ Don Porcaro & Leslie Wayne” at S. Dorsky Museum, SUNY New PaltzFintz, J. - Arts & Antiques - Register/Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Dec. 3,1999, p. A-10 " Joseph Haske, Abstract Paintings"Fintz, J. - Arts & Antiques - Register/Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Oct., 1,1999. p. A –10 "Ledy's Sculpture's On Exhibit.”Fintz, J. - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. April 16, 1999, p. A-6, "Suspension of Disbelief”Fintz, J - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson NY, Fri. Nov. 10, 1998, p. A –6,” Photographers Pushing Boundaries"Fintz, J. - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Sept 25,1998, p. A-6, "From the Inside Out"Fintz, J - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Aug. 21 1998, p A-6, "How to Be In Space"Fintz, J. - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. July 10 1998, p A 6,"Surroundings, Revised, Revisited”