Barbara Schwartz (artist)

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Barbara Schwartz
Born1949
Philadelphia
Died(2006-05-08)May 8, 2006
New York City
Known forsculpture, painting
Movementabstract art
Cut Diamond #7 (2004–05) by Barbara Schwartz

Barbara Schwartz (1949 – May 8, 2006 in New York City) was an American abstract artist, painter, sculptor and art teacher.[1]

Schwartz was born in Philadelphia.[2] She studied at Carnegie Mellon University for her BFA.[1] She moved to New York and had her first solo show in 1975 at the Willard Gallery.[2] Towards the end of the 1970s, she aimed to develop abstract painting, including non-Western decorative elements, such as an Islamic influence, as well as integrating geometric with organic forms.[2] Her painted plaster reliefs were associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement in New York.[2] From 1978, she taught at the School of Visual Arts.[2] In 1979, she was represented in the Whitney Biennial.[2] She experimented with numerous materials, including wood, glass, and metal, and often cast pieces in bronze and aluminum. She used glazed ceramic for her work in the 1990s.[2] Her last representing gallery was the Andre Zarre Gallery in New York, where she had a show shortly before her death.

Her work is in the collections of New Mexico Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, Neuberger Museum, New York, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[1]

She married, and was divorced from, artists Bill Jensen and Art Schade.[1] She died age 58 from leukemia which developed from chemotherapy she had twelve years previously for ovarian cancer, said her companion, Richard Johnson; she was also survived by her stepdaughter, Megan Schade.[2]

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Abstract Artist Barbara Schwartz, 58, Dies" Archived October 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, artdaily.org. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "Barbara Schwartz" Archived June 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, 11 May 2006. Retrieved from Carnegie Mellon School of Art Archived 2007-06-26 at the Wayback Machine (scroll), 27 July 2007.

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