ANDOVER, MA.- The Addison Gallery of American Art presents the exhibit Jennifer Bartlett : Early Plate Work Consisting of approximately 30 works, this exhibition will include a selection of single and multi-plate pieces ranging in date from 1969-1975 as well as Bartlett's defining 987-plate piece Rhapsody.

Ranging from mathematically precise dot paintings to rigorously structured patterned pieces to more freehand and expressive painterly pieces, the exhibition will provide a window into a young artist's coming of age. Analytical and lyrical, these early works reflect Bartlett 's transformation of the then prevailing Minimalist aesthetic into something distinctly her own. In these paintings, she joins the opposing forces of system and intuition, reason and passion, and establishes the balanced simultaneity that continues to inform her work today. Generous support for this exhibition and publication was provided by the Locks Foundation, Evelyn H. and Robert W. Doran (PA 1951) and the Sidney R. Knafel Fund.