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Selected Publications
2019 JEANNIE MOTHERWELL, essay by Ann Landi, Contributing Editor ARTnews, founder of Vasari21.com, M Fine Arts Galerie, (catalog for solo exhibition, IMPACT)
2019 Jeannie Motherwell in South Florida, by Raymond Elman, Inspicio, January 2019
2018 The Motherhood Report, by Ann Landi, Vasari21.com, December 3, 2018
2018 Jeannie Motherwell’s cosmic vistas, by Susan Rand Brown, Provincetown Banner, July 26, 2018
2018 Jeannie Motherwell, Under the Radar, by Ann Landi , Vasari21.com, July 22, 2018
2018 Jeannie Motherwell — Chance favors the ready mind, by Christopher Busa, Provincetown Arts Magazine, 2018 (Acrobat pdf file)
2018 Limitless Motherwell: Amp’d Up Vibe In Provincetown, by Suzanne Volmer, Artscope, July/August 2018
2018 THE GIFT IN OUR VOICES — Interview with Jeannie Motherwell, interviewer: Kit Kennedy, San Francisco Peace and Hope
2018 Space for Art — Making a cosmic impression, by Nicole Stott, ROOM - The Space Journal, Summer 2018 (Acrobat pdf file)
2017 Jeannie Motherwell: Her Art Stands by Itself, by Dirk Vanduffel, Artdependence Magazine, Belgium, October, 2017
2017 Jeannie Motherwell's paintings revel in abstraction, by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, October 13, 2017
2017 Jeannie Motherwell: Pour. Push. Layer. at Rafius Fane Gallery, by James Foritano, Artscope, September/October, 2017
2017 SOWA FALL PREVIEW: CHANGES IN THE AIR, by Suzanne Volmer, Artscope, September/October, 2017
2017 POUR. PUSH. LAYER., by Susan Rand Brown, Art New England, Vol. 38, Issue 5, September - October, 2017
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
2016 Jeannie Motherwell, Interview from Yale University Radio WYBCX, November 16, 2016
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
2016 Sanctioned Spaces, by Jeannie Motherwell, Vasari21.com, April 5, 2016
2015 Tide No. 2, Home page of San Francisco Peace and Hope, downloaded April 24, 2015 (Acrobat pdf file)
2014 Ebbing, Masthead/cover of Art Connection, Fall/Winter, 2014
2014 San Francisco Peace and Hope The Book, wrap around book jacket featuring Tide 2
2014 One Thing and One Thing Only - To Paint, interviewer: Kit Kennedy, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 4
2014 Night Rhythms San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 4, Chapter 1
2014 Elementary and Circle of Life, Avenue, April, 2014, page 94
2013 Elementary and Circle of Life in Rooms with a View 2013, Quintessence, November 18, 2013
2013 Dance, Hamptons Cottages and Gardens, July 15, 2013
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
2013 Perfect Storm, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 3, Chapter 1
2013 River Run, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 2, Chapter 2
2012 Patricia Marie: Abyss, San Francisco Peace and Hope, Spring / Fall issues, 2012
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 play audio
2011 Jeannie Motherwell: New Work, by Jim Foritano, Artscope Magazine, July/August, 2011
2011 Patricia Marie: Abyss San Francisco Peace and Hope, Issue 1, Chapter 1 and Elegy 911: An American Tragedy, Collage Chapter 5
2011 Jeannie Motherwell Paintings and Collages: 2004-2010, Boston University Metropolitan College, Winter, 2011 (Acrobat pdf file)
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 Studio Show Recollections/Robert Motherwell, by Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol. 23, annual issue, 2008/2009
2008 Robert and Jeannie Motherwell, Provincetown Art Guide
2007 Year In Review 2007, by Sue Harrison, Provincetown Banner, Vol. 13, Number 34, December 27, 2007
2007 Gallery Scene, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 30, Issue 18, August 9, 2007
2007 Administrator by Day, Artist by Night, by Rebecca McNamara, BU Today, August 8, 2007
2007 Jeannie Motherwell Unlocks the Ghost of the Patricia Marie, by Susan Rand Brown, Provincetown Banner
2007 Patricia Marie, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 30, Issue 17
2007 Artists: Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol. 19, annual issue, 2007-2008
2007 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
2006 Making a Bid, Boston Globe 'Sidekick'
2005 Sea Change, American Airlines 'American Way,' December 1, 2005
2005 Around P'town, Provincetown Banner and Advocate, July 30, 2005
2005 Open Studios: Art in Context, by Kristin Lambert, artsMEDIA Magazine, May/June, 2005
2005 Artists: Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol. 18, annual issue, 2004/2005
2005 Faculty artwork, Boston University Metropolitan College, Winter 2005
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
2004 On Display: Jeannie Motherwell Works on Paper, Life In Provincetown, Vol. 3, Issue 9, June 24, 2004
2004 Artists: Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Vol. 18, annual issue, 2003/2004
2002 Finding the Light: Artist's Statements, by Stuard Derrick, Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 25, Issue 25 (September 19–25, 2002)
2002 A Sense of Place: An Anthology of Cape Women Writers by Gillian Drake, published by Shank Painter Publishing
2002 The Gallery Scene, Cape Arts Review
2002 Art Talk, Provincetown Arts Magazine
2002 Portrait of an Artist: Jeannie Motherwell, by Stuard Derrick, Provincetown Magazine Vol. 25, Issue 18, August 1-7, 2002
2002 Open Studios Offers Artists, Public A Chance To Interact, Cambridge Chronicle
2002 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
2000 Jeannie Motherwell: Painting Again, by Dan Cooper, P'town Women Magazine
1999 Beyond the Windows: A Conversation with Jeannie Motherwell, by Peter Alson, Provincetown Arts Magazine
1999 Works in Progress, The Cambridge Tab
1980 Face of the Artist: Photographs by Norma Holt through Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM) Exhibit
Quotes
As I wrote about Motherwell, whose father was the famous Robert and whose stepmom was Helen Frankenthaler: Their influences are apparent, but there are also values embraced by much of that ground-breaking group in the 1950s, still ongoing among painters today: spontaneity, intense color, and a basic trust in the possibilities of chance. If anything, Motherwell has surpassed her elders in cultivating a lush and opulent vision that builds on the lyrical impulses of a previous generation. Call it expressionism without angst.
—Ann Landi, Founder & Editor Vasari21.com
Jeannie Motherwell's work pits generation against collapse, and are as capricious as light flashing on water. They pin us with similar intensity — a moment of coming to be that will just as soon vanish.
—Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
As the daughter of two artistic icons, how do you find your own path and message in the art world? Jeannie Motherwell has managed to do both.
—Dirk Vanduffel, Artdependence Magazine, Belgium, 2017
The artwork is 'an event, an occurrence'; that is, an action that emerges in the here and now. At issue is the nature of creation; the 'subject-matter' of Motherwell's work is an 'artistic creation' itself, a symbol of the images and mysteries of creation.
—Gerardo Gil, Fine Art Critic, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract acrylic painter Jeannie Motherwell refuses to grow cold in the artistic shadow of her father and stepmother, Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler. As a stable ecosystem quells its wrestling constituents, Motherwell's refined intuition hushes the spontaneous boundaries of dilating paint on clay board panel and canvas. Over a soberly spoken interview, the New York artist admits in her work the faint pursuit of a faded horizon: the shifting waters from the view of an old home, replaced, in time, by a windowless studio. The methodology of Motherwell's art - to draw a structure from an uncertainty - eerily echoes a ritual from her upbringing: discerning, with the right words, to the joy of her guardians, the spiritual essences behind their cascades of paint.
—Brainard Carey, Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies
Jeannie’s paintings embody a bold re-visioning of abstract painting. The paintings seem to live in a realm between motion and stillness, micro and macro seeing at the same time. This simultaneousness makes for a vigorous dynamic of what exists as imagination and what is perceived. The work is exciting, the color palette luscious, the overall impact is breathtaking. Alchemy!
—Rose Austin, Photographer, Educator, and former director of the Massachusetts Culture Council
Jeannie Motherwell’s new paintings span the distance between far flung galaxies and the crust of the earth. Much like Gaston Bachelard’s reflections on intimacy and immensity, they speak of memories and dreams, evoking—improbably, delightfully—both the solidity of landscape and transparency of smoke.
—Necee Regis, Writer/photographer
The sensual stain of Jeannie Motherwell’s paintings evoke the change of seasons – fall color, a balance of warmth with the impending chill, slicked over a ground of winter white. Like the first frost over newly fallen leaves.
—Erin Becker, Norma Jean Calderwood Director, Cambridge Art Association
. . . Jeannie has been inspired by images she first saw from the Hubble Space Telescope. I was drawn in by Jeannie's use of color and flow in her paintings and by the way I felt like I was looking at something familiar and completely unknown all at the same time. I also love that Jeannie's inspiration comes not only from space, but also from our oceans (or what a lot of us like to call inner space) and where there is still so much to explore.
—Nicole Stott, Artist, Former USA Astronaut, International Association Of Astronomical Artists
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