Jacqueline Barnett is well known in Seattle as both a painter and printmaker. Her work has been featured in solo and thematic group exhibitions in the area since the mid 1980s.  In the gallery, we have a selection of monotypes and mixed media pieces that provide a chronological overview of her work..   Color and gesture drive Barnett’s expressive abstractions. They have enormous energy and a liveliness that comes from the artist’s willingness to take risks.

Somewhere/somehow:  This is a strange title for a show......but it suggests the ambiguity in all my work.  There is a longing, a desire in my paintings.  Each piece has a somewhere, if only in my consciousness.   The somehow is the mystery of the whole artistic process. 

Jacqueline Barnett
June 2011

Please note that some works are at the artists studio and not available for immediate view at the gallery.

Porcelain Enamel on Steel

Oil on Canvas