Current Exhibitions
Y. Malik Jalal
Untitled, Painting with collage elements
Southbound: A Survey of New and Previous Works by Y. Malik Jalal
August 25th - December 5th
Working through sculpture, collage, and photography, Jalal approaches the image as
both a material object and a geography. Rather than treating photographs as pictures,
he considers their circulation, framing, and exchange as conditions that shape meaning.
Sourced from auctions, flea markets, and online resale platforms, discarded family
photographs have been severed from their original custodians, transforming personal
images into commodities. Their reappearance within the work raises questions of possession,
memory, authorship, and value. Framing becomes a cartographic act, relocating images
within new historical, formal, and psychological relationships.
The automobile and the roadside constitute a parallel geographic interest. Jalal understands
the interstate as one of the defining landscapes of modern life: familiar yet fundamentally
uninhabitable, a space organized around circulation, production, and impact. Throughout
the work, the automobile functions as both object and metaphor—a site where aspiration,
labor, violence, and fantasy converge. Across his practice, collision is positioned
as a generative force through which loss and inheritance acquire material form.
Please join us for the joint public reception on Thursday, September 17th, 5:30 - 8:30pm. Malik Jalal will also be giving an artist talk at the reception. This event is combined
with the reception for The Bennett Prize.
Nicole Santiago
Second Time Around, Oil on canvas
The Bennett Prize: Rising Voices 4
September 15th - December 5th
Rising Voices celebrates women figurative realist painters from across the U.S., showcasing
finalists and the winner of The Bennett Prize® — one of the largest art prizes for
women painters worldwide.
This marks the 4th iteration of The Bennett Prize®, continuing its mission to amplify
the voices of women painters and transform the landscape of figurative realism.
In addition to Rising Voices, the traveling exhibition season features a special solo
show: Deng Shiqing — The Cost of Life. Winner of The Bennett Prize® 3, Deng explores the deeply human, complex, and emotional
realities of surrogacy through figurative painting. Her work illuminates questions
of identity, motherhood, and the value of human life.
Please join us for the joint public reception on Thursday, September 17th, 5:30 - 8:30pm. Malik Jalal will also be giving an artist talk at the reception. This event is combined
with the reception for Southbound.
Works from the Bartlett Center's Permanent Collection
Works from the Sandy Bartlett Scarborough Collection of historically important paintings by Bo Bartlett features paintings and drawings
executed by the artist between 1977-2019, currently on view in the Scarborough Gallery.
Below are videos discussing some of the larger works that are a part of the center's
permanent collection:
- Civil War, 1994, Oil on linen, 134 x 204 in.
- Damascus Road, 1988, Oil on linen, 120 x 168 in.
- Good Old Days, 2000, Oil on linen, 94 x 98 in.
- Habeas Corpus, 2006, Oil on linen, 82 x 128 in.
- Hiroshima, 1994, Oil on linen, 134 x 204 in.
- Leviathan, 2000, Oil on linen, 188 x 138 in.
- Object Permanence, 1986, Oil on linen, 120 x 168 in.
- Parents, 1988, Oil on linen, 88 x 112 in.
- Tarmac, 1986, Oil on linen, 88 x 176 in.
- The Last Correspondence of Ray Johnson, 2006, Oil on linen, 88 x 67.5 in.
Bo's Brain
Curated by Bo Bartlett, Bo's Brain is currently installed in the Cheves Archival Gallery with a time-lapse video by Matt Hanner and two channel audio by Man Bartlett.
Watch The Brain with Bo Bartlett