JACK BARTH
Adjunct Professor

"Portrait 2002-3", graphite and carbon on tinted paper, 13" x 15"
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Jack Barth teaches drawing in the School of Art. In 1993, he initiated an interdisciplinary seminar in painting and drawing, which he co-taught with Faith Wilding through Spring 1995. Barth's art practice draws from many disciplines.

"On my wall is a photograph of Barnett Newman at work in his studio (with Onement in the background), a five-foot vertical print of Trajan's Column by Piranesi, Jasper Johns' print Numbers, 0 - 9, and an unsigned Ad Reinhardt. I hope to finish the wall one day with Durer's Melancolia, Robert Smithson's Monuments Along the Passaic, and one of Cezanne's last Mont Sainte-Victoires. On the floor next to my bed is Thoreau's Journal, Stanley Cavell's Senses of Walden, Salmagundi, and Joseph McElroy's latest novel. On my roof there are apple trees, wisteria, birch, and roses. I often take walks in Central Park at night, my mind filled with the ways and means of building mimetic and linguistic systems - I endeavor to make a world picture to describe my experience, which is abstract."

Jack Barth's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and other public collections.

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