JEANNIE MOTHERWELL
Born and raised in New York City, Jeannie Motherwell inherited a love of painting from her father, Robert Motherwell, and stepmother, Helen Frankenthaler, two pillars of mid-century abstraction. She studied painting at Bard College and the Art Students League in New York. Continuing with her art after college, she became active in arts education at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. Later, relocating to Cambridge, MA, she worked at Boston University for the graduate program in Arts Administration 2002 - 2015. She served on the Cambridge Arts Council Public Art Commission from 2004 – 2007 and is currently on the Provincetown Arts Magazine Board of Directors, an Honorary Art Advisor Member for Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (NH), and was on the Advisory Board for Joy Street Artists Open Studios in Somerville, MA. Her work has been featured in public and private collections throughout the US and abroad.
Jeannie’s studio is in Somerville, MA. She is represented by the M Fine Arts Galerie in Boston, MA and Palm Beach, FL and by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Artist Statement
In exploring space, I try to make space. I am intrigued with complex and expansive space on a flat surface. The painting process I use creates the unexpected for me. By pouring and pushing paint, I can engage in the element of surprise often using a bright and intense palette, or through my continued passion for black and white.
Employing undulating, bleeding, and layering, my paintings are inspired by the mysteries of outer space and what astronauts often refer to as “inner space” (the skies and the sea).
EDUCATION
1976 The Art Students League of New York, Painting
1974 Bard College, BA, Painting
SELECTED SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 M Fine Arts Galerie, WINTER COLLECTIVE Boston, MA
2023 Schoolhouse Gallery, NEW PAINTINGS Provincetown, MA
2022 Schoolhouse Gallery, NEW PAINTINGS Provincetown, MA
2022 Artsy via The Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, MA
2021 Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, MA
M Fine Arts Galerie, WHAT MATTERS Boston, MA
2020 The Schoolhouse Gallery, MULTIPLES Provincetown, MA
2019 M Fine Arts Galerie IMPACT Boston, MA
2018 M Fine Arts Galerie, Recent Paintings Palm Beach, FL
Rochester Museum of Fine Arts Color Stories: Selected Works by
Jeannie Motherwell
Rochester, NH
2017 Rafius Fane Gallery POUR. PUSH. LAYER. Boston, MA
2013- Lynne Scalo Design New Paintings Westport, CT
2002 - 2011 Lyman-Eyer Gallery Provincetown, MA
2007, 2010 Boston University, Metropolitan Gallery Paintings and collages Boston, MA
2000 - 2001 Boathouse Gallery Provincetown, MA
1999 Cambridge Public Library Cambridge, MA
1978 - 1981 Provincetown Group Gallery Provincetown, MA
1974 Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Brickbottom Gallery: Curated by Phillip Gerstein Somerville, MA
2023 Palm Beach Modern & Contemporary @ Gallery Schoolhouse Palm Beach, FL
2021 Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (virtual), ABSTRACTION NOW Truro, MA
ClipArt Gallery, Invitational, REFLECTIONS Boston, MA
2020 The Schoolhouse Gallery, POMPETTE Provincetown, MA
The Schoolhouse Gallery, PENTIMENTO Provincetown, MA
New Bedford Art Museum Excavation: Layers of Meaning New Bedford, MA
2019 Ethan Cohen New York, DOUBLE X
Ethan Cohen Kube, Orphans of Painting
The Bridgehampton Museum, Market Art + Design
M Fine Arts, Galerie Winter Collective
New York, NY
Beacon, NY
Bridgehampton, NY
Palm Beach, FL
M Fine Arts Galerie, Winter Collective Boston, MA
2018 Cambridge Art Association, Viewpoints Charlestown MA
M Fine Arts Galerie, Summer Group Show Boston, MA
AMP Gallery, Limitless Provincetown, MA
2017 Liquid Art House Boston, MA
Galatea Fine Art The NEW ENGLAND COLLECTIVE VIII Boston, MA
2016 Miami Beach Convention Center Art Basel Art Week 2016 Miami Beach, FL
AMP Gallery Sanctioned Spaces Provincetown, MA
Cambridge Art Association, 15th National Prize Show Recital Cambridge, MA
Atlantic Works Gallery Boston Biennial 3 Boston, MA
2015 - Joy Street Artists Open Studios Somerville, MA
2015 Brickbottom Gallery DREAM WEAVERS Somerville, MA
ArcWorks Gallery Artsy Autumn Peabody, MA
Via Garibaldi 1791 ArtVenice Biennale 3 Venice, Italy
2014 Atlantic Works Gallery Boston Biennial 3 Boston, MA
2014, 2015 Somerville Museum Artists’ Choice Somerville, MA
2013 Brickbottom Gallery Chain Reaction Somerville, MA
2012 Antiques & Art Avant-Garde Greenwich A fundraiser for the Bruce Museum and Greenwich Historical Society Greenwich, CT
2004 - 2012 Lyman-Eyer Gallery Provincetown, MA
Acme Fine Art Provincetown Views Boston, MA
2010 Fay Chandler Gallery 10th Annual Small Works Cambridge, MA
Cambridge Arts Council Gallery Cambridge Open Studios Salon Preview Cambridge, MA
Exhibition
2009 Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) Generations Exhibition Provincetown, MA
2001 - 2009 Maud Morgan Visual Arts Center, Sacramento St. Gallery Small Works Cambridge, MA
2005 Newton Free Library Rock, Paper, Scissors Newton, MA
2003 Monroe Center for the Arts Landscapes Lexington, MA
Art of July 10th Annual Boston, MA
Boston State House Exhibition Invitational: Travel Boston, MA
Color Stories, Inc. Competitive Exhibition Boston, MA
2002, 2003 Stebbins Gallery Cambridge, MA
2002 New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University Special 9/11
Exhibition and Event
Boston, MA
TransCultural Coaster Project Destination: The World featuring 100 Artists
Plus (Curated by Charles Giuliani)
Boston, MA
Lynn Arts Possibilities 2nd Annual Mixed Media Lynn, MA
New England School of Art Digital City: New Squirts for Now People Boston, MA
1999 - 2001 Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM) Provincetown, MA
2000 Gallery 57 Cambridge Arts Council Cambridge, MA
1998 - 1999 DNA Gallery Provincetown, MA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2022 ANE
2022 The Somerville Times
2022 The Provincetown Independent
2020 San Francisco Peace and Hope “Light the Sky” - a video exhibit by Lamorinda Arts Council. Highlights
Jeannie Motherwell and the poet and artist contributors in the book.
2019 JEANNIE MOTHERWELL, essay by Ann Landi, Contributing Editor ARTnews, founder of Vasari21.com, M
Fine Arts Galerie, (catalog for solo exhibition, IMPACT)
Jeannie Motherwell in South Florida, by Raymond Elman, Inspicio, January 2019
2018 The Motherhood Report, by Ann Landi, Vasari21.com, December 3, 2018
Jeannie Motherwell’s cosmic vistas, by Susan Rand Brown, Provincetown Banner, July 26, 2018
Jeannie Motherwell, Under the Radar, by Ann Landi Vasari21.com, July 22, 2018
Jeannie Motherwell — Chance favors the ready mind, by Christopher Busa, Provincetown Arts Magazine,
2018
Limitless Motherwell: Amp’d Up Vibe In Provincetown, by Suzanne Volmer, Artscope, July/August 2018
THE GIFT IN OUR VOICES — Interview with Jeannie Motherwell, interviewer: Kit Kennedy, San Francisco
Peace and Hope
Space for Art — Making a cosmic impression, by Nicole Stott, ROOM - The Space Journal, Summer 2018
2018 Art & Life with Jeannie Motherwell, BostonVoyager, April 10, 2018
2017 Jeannie Motherwell: Her Art Stands by Itself, by Dirk Vanduffel, Artdependence Magazine, Belgium,
October, 2017
Jeannie Motherwell’s paintings revel in abstraction, by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, October 13, 2017
Jeannie Motherwell: Pour. Push. Layer. at Rafius Fane Gallery, by James Foritano, Artscope,
September/October, 2017
SOWA FALL PREVIEW: CHANGES IN THE AIR, by Suzanne Volmer, Artscope, September/October, 2017
POUR. PUSH. LAYER., by Susan Rand Brown, Art New England, Vol. 38, Issue 5, September - October,
2017
Jeannie Motherwell at her SoWa Boston Exhibit in the Rafius Fane Gallery, video interview by Artscope
magazine’s Suzanne Volmer, September, 2017
2016 Boston Based Artist Jeannie Motherwell Draws Structures From Uncertainty, THE SILO,
November 28, 2016
Jeannie Motherwell, Interview from Yale University Radio WYBCX, November 16, 2016
Jeannie Motherwell's Provincetown work is haunted by the Patricia Marie, Provincetown Banner, Vol. 22,
Number 26, October 13, 2016
2016
Dancing with a creative partner gently leading me into moves I have not yet experienced. Jeannie
Motherwell,
interviewer: Kit Kennedy, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 5
Sanctioned Spaces, by Jeannie Motherwell, Vasari21.com, April 5, 2016
2015 Tide No. 2, Home page of San Francisco Peace and Hope
2014 Ebbing, Masthead/cover of Art Connection, Fall/Winter, 2014
San Francisco Peace and Hope The Book, wrap around book jacket featuring Tide 2
One Thing and One Thing Only - To Paint, interviewer: Kit Kennedy, San Francisco Peace and Hope,
Issue 4
Night Rhythms, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 4, Chapter 1
Elementary and Circle of Life, Avenue, April, 2014
2013 Elementary and Circle of Life, Quintessence, November 18, 2013
Dance, Hamptons Cottages and Gardens, July 15, 2013
‘Never Give Up the Joy and Awe of Exploration’, An interview with painter Jeannie Motherwell, interviewer: Kit Kennedy, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 3
River Run, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 2, Chapter 2
2012 Patricia Marie: Abyss, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Spring / Fall Issues, 2012
Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler and Cape Cod Influence the Works of Jeannie Motherwell, by
Jeannie Motherwell, Journal of the Print World, Vol. 35, Number 1, January, 2012
2011 Dune with Dreams, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Emergency Department, audio guide
Jeannie Motherwell: New Work, by Jim Foritano, Artscope Magazine, July/August, 2011
Patricia Marie: Abyss San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 1, Chapter 1 and Elegy 911: An American
Tragedy, Collage Chapter 5
Jeannie Motherwell — Paintings and Collages: 2004 - 2010, Boston University Metropolitan College,
Winter, 2011
2009 The Provincetown Roots of Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 32, Issue 15, July 23, 2009
2008 Capsule Previews, artscope, New England’s Culture Magazine, November/December, 2008
2008 (cont’d) Studio Show Recollections/Robert Motherwell, by Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol.
23, annual issue, 2008/2009
Robert and Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Art Guide
2007 Year In Review 2007, by Sue Harrison, Provincetown Banner, Vol. 13, Number 34, December 27, 2007
Gallery Scene, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 30, Issue 18, August 9, 2007
Administrator by Day, Artist by Night, by Rebecca McNamara, BU Today, August 8, 2007
Jeannie Motherwell Unlocks the Ghost of the Patricia Marie, by Susan Rand Brown, Provincetown Banner
Patricia Marie, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 30, Issue 17
Artists: Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol. 19, annual issue, 2007-2008
On display at the MET Gallery, Boston University Metropolitan College, commencement 2007
2006 Jeannie Motherwell & Friends @ Lyman-Eyer, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 29, Issue 21, August 31, 2006
Making a Bid, Boston Globe ‘Sidekick’
2005 Sea Change, American Airlines ‘American Way,’; December 1, 2005
Around P-town, Provincetown Banner and Advocate, July 30, 2005
Open Studios: Art in Context, by Kristin Lambert, artsMEDIA Magazine, May/June, 2005
Artists: Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol. 18, annual issue, 2004/2005
Faculty artwork, Boston University Metropolitan College, Winter 2005
Weld, Click, Rip: Three North Cambridge Artists join forces for an exhibit, by Chris Helms, Cambridge
Chronicle
2004 The Seen and the Unseen, Jeannie Motherwell and Deborah Barlow Show New Work, by Brenner Thomas,
Editor, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 27, Issue 12, June 24 - 30, 2004
On Display: Jeannie Motherwell Works on Paper, Life In Provincetown, Vol. 3, Issue 9, June 24, 2004
2002 Finding the Light: Artist's Statements, by Stuard Derrick, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 25, Issue 25
(September 19–25, 2002)
A Sense of Place: An Anthology of Cape Women Writers, by Gillian Drake, published by Shank Painter
Publishing
The Gallery Scene, Cape Arts Review
Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine
Portrait of an Artist: Jeannie Motherwell, by Stuard Derrick, Provincetown Magazine Vol. 25, Issue 18,
August 1-7, 2002
Open Studios Offers Artists, Public A Chance To Interact, Cambridge Chronicle
Peek Behind the Painting, by David Ortiz, Cambridge Tab, April 26
2001 On Equal Ground: Photographs from an Artist’s Community by Norma Holt, Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM)
2000 artsMEDIA Magazine, Summer Issue
Jeannie Motherwell: Painting Again, by Dan Cooper, Ptown Women Magazine
1999 Beyond the Windows: A Conversation with Jeannie Motherwell, by Peter Alson, Provincetown Arts Magazine
Works in Progress, The Cambridge Tab
1980 Face of the Artist: Photographs by Norma Holt through Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM)
Exhibition, July
SELECTED RECOGNITIONS
2019 Juror, The Biennial Project Biennial, The 2019 Venice Biennale
2018 Juror New Hampshire Institute of Art Alumni, Rochester Museum of Fine Art
2016 Limitless, Vasari21.com Pic of the Day featured on Facebook and Instagram
15th National Prize Show Cambridge Art Association, Recital (Juror: Paul C. Ha, Director, MIT List Visual
Arts Center)
Visual Arts Artist Fellowship Somerville Arts Council
2015 1st Prize, Artsy Autumn ArcWorks Gallery, Riskful Training (Juror: Erin Becker, Norma Jean Calderwood
Director of the Cambridge Art Association)
Black & White 2015 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, A Sacred Trade (Juror: Christiane Paul, Curator
of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY)
2013 Artist of the Week The Art Connection
2009 - Corporate Art Loan Program deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
2009 Home Is Where The Art Is Boston Children’s Hospital
2008 Advisory Board Cambridge Open Studios (COS)
2003 - 2007 Public Art Commission Advisory Committee Cambridge Arts Council
2003 Juror Monroe Center for the Arts, Competitive Landscape Exhibition
2002 Best In Show, Annual Open Juried Photography Show Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA
(Juror: Paul Weiner)
2000 National’s Competition Finalist Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM)
MEMBERSHIPS
Cambridge Art Association (CAA) 2016 -
North Cambridge Arts (NoCa) 2000 -
Joy Street Artists 2014 -
REPRESENTATION
M Fine Arts Galerie Boston, MA and Palm Beach, FL
The Schoolhouse Gallery Provincetown, MA
Ethan Cohen Gallery New York City, NY
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Board of Directors, Provincetown Arts Magazine 2020-2023
Joy Street Artists Open Studios Advisory Board 2017 - 2020
NoCa (North Cambridge Artists) Advisory Board 2017 - 2019
Boston University, Graduate Program in Arts Administration, Program Assistant 2002 - 2015
Cambridge Arts Council Public Art Commission 2003 - 2007
Bruce Museum, Education Department 1994 - 1997