Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, who resides and paints in Surprise, New York in the upper Hudson River Valley. She is also an arts writer and independent curator. The intermix of being a native New Yorker and now, happily, a resident of the lush Hudson River Valley is evident in her work, which combines an urban edginess with the lyrical influences of her natural surroundings.

Ms. Fintz was born in Brooklyn NY, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. Her personal amalgam of NY School formalist principles, and love of natural light and color was initially forged during her summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where she painted from the Maine landscape. Ms. Fintz lived and worked in the artist communities of Tribeca and Williamsburg, exhibiting regularly in NYC. Jeanette in part, credits the importance of natural light for her decision to transplant home and studio to Surprise.

Ms Fintz has filtered nature through her urban sensibility, stretching color motifs towards the heightened and intensified palette often found in the realms of design and fashion. Her pieces have a rhythmic impact stemming both from her enjoyment of jazz and polyrhythms of Brazilian and Indian origin, which she also sees displayed in the visual rhythms found in textiles and Islamic tile patterns. Jeanette’s involvement with these resources was enhanced by sabbatical travel to Spain’s Andalusia Region (2005 & 2009) to investigate patterning systems found in Moorish tiles and architecture, and to Turkey (2013), where she focused on the Iznik, Byzantine and Greco-Roman tiles and frescoes. Jeanette also had immersed herself in textile patterns and Ikat designs during her yearlong sojourn in Malaysia, where she was founding faculty in a new Parsons School of Design affiliate in Kuala Lumpur (1996-97).

The intuitive rhythmic order of Jeanette’s paintings prior to 2009 which featured repetitive lines, circles and ellipses clashing with fluid gestural streams of color have given way fully in the new work to a given crystalline geometric substructure that unifies all visual events. This work embraces and employs the Oneness found in sacred geometry as the underpinning for improvised pathways that give each work its uniqueness. Shapes that are found have a “role” to play, to riff off some of Jeanette’s series titles. The earlier pieces acknowledge through the unexpected visual event, the imperfection of the human condition while the newer geometries strive for the expression of spiritual wholeness and connection.

Selected Grants and Awards include

Ms Fintz has taught as an Assistant Professor of Art & Design, in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons the New School for Design for 17 years. At Purchase College, SUNY, Jeanette taught all levels of painting and drawing for 12 years as Assistant Professor in the BFA conservatory program. She also has taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, The University of Southern Maine, Portland, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, and SUNY, Albany.

Jeanette shows her work at the Garvey Simon Gallery, New York, NY, Fox Gallery, New York, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, the Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY, Cross Contemporary Gallery, Saugerties, NY.

Recent projects include a solo show at Garvey Simon Gallery, NY NY (Sept. 7 - Oct, 2017), and a curatorial project, "The Ritual of Construction," at the Kleinert James Center, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild (May 19 - July , 2017).

Ms Fintz’s Residencies and Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and Altos De Chavon & Ossabaw Island Project.

Jeanette’s selected Visiting Artist spots include Art New England, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY.

Ms. Fintz received her MFA from Boston Universtiy SFA (1975 ), and her BA from Queens College CUNY (1972). She attended the New York Studio School (1972-73), and received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in 1975.

Ms Fintz’s work can be found in many national & international collections.
 

Collections

Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen 500 Fifth Ave NYC
Larry Bartlett NYC
Karen Bander NYC
Ellyn Eisenach Germantown NY
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital NYC
Rick & Nurit Amdur NYC, Litchfield CT & Tel Aviv, Israel
Par Capital Management Boston MA
VYV Apartments, Luxury High Rise, Jersey City, NJ
Boca Raton Yacht Club, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Boca Raton, FL
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, MA, and Plano, TX
Robert A.M. Stern Architectural Project, Washington DC
Capital G Bank Hamilton, Bermuda
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Foxboro, MA
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA
Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston, MA
Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA
Analysis Group, Boston, MA
National Televison, 7 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Christmas Island Phosphate, Singapore
Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles CA
Rabobank NYC Commerzbank, New York, NY
Commerzbank 2, World Financial Center, New York, NY
National Television 7, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine
Collection of Minister of Agriculture Datuk Effendi & Datin Norwawi
Collection of the Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir
  Mohamed of Malaysia
Jim & Debbie Ellickson -Brown, Cultural Attache, American
  Embassy, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (1996)
Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Suherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, MY & Singapore
Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Aloysious Goh, Singapore
Betsey Swan & Chris Calder, Albuquerque NM
Carrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NY
Albert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CA
Barbel & Peter Starz, Toulouse, FR
Clarissa & Jean Kueller, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mr. & Mrs. Andre Keller, K L, MY & Geneva, Switzerland
Shirley Greitzer, Esq. Washington DC
Mark Meltzer, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CA
Joel & Fran Soroka, Aspen, Colorado
Estate of Hella and Carl Ossenberg, NYC & Palm Beach, FL
Estate of Gabriel Laderman, New York, NY
Stephen Westfall, New York, NY
Dr & Mrs Joseph Delisi, Lake Hopatcong, NJ
Dr & Mrs Chris Calder & Besty Swan, Menands, NY
Carol & Joachim Frank, NY, NY
Mark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CA
George A Schulman, Los Angeles, CA
Gerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CA
Caryl Horn, Port Richmond, CA
Joe & Cathy Plumber, Cold Spring, NY
Molly Doland, Esq. Washington DC
Bethany Beardslee Winham, Rhinebeck, NY
David Fox & Associates, Inc. Briarcliff Manor, NY
Eric & Carolyn Egas, Greenviille, NY & Vieques, PR
Jin Zeng, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ArtSpiel Interview with Carter Ratcliff, Balance & Beam Paintings at Carie Haddad Gallery July 2021

WSI “Worldline Schreiber Paintings _Sept 7-Oct 7, 2017 GarveySimon Gallery NY USA," Wall Street International, Art, Sept 14, 2017
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Ratcliff, Carter, “Vital Geometries” catalog essay, “Worldline Schreiber Paintings… plus," Garvey/Simon, New York, NY, Sept 7-Oct 7 2017

Smart, Paul, Art, The Woodstock Times, “Ritual of Construction at Kleinert,” p20, May 18, 2017

Barton,P. - "The Presence Of the Invisible Proposition," Catalog essay, p. 5-11, April 2016

Westfall,Stephen - "Jeanette Fintz, Perceptual Motion," Catalog essay, p. 2-3, April 2012

Occhiogrosso, Peter, Art & About, Hudson River Museum & Gallery Guide, Fall 2006, Informed Color at BRIK Gallery Catskill, NY, p.20

Brickman David, “The Round Table," WAMC radio, Informed Color at BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, July 18, 2006

Hudson River Art - Fall-Winter2004, Vol.3: Sightings “From The First," Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY," acrylic/canvas by Jeanette Fintz, photo, p34

Walentini, J - http://www.abartonline.com/html/nyviews_3_p4.html,”Nature Abstracted," The Painting Canter NYC, review, photo, Dec 1, 2004

Luzajic, L.- http://www.ideamuseum.net/index2.htm “Jeanette Fintz," feature article, March 2003

Barton, P. – The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, August 2002, cover feature article, p.28 -29 "True Colors”

Eckhoff, S - Arts & Antiques -Register Star, Hudson, NY Fri. May 21,1999 p. A-10:  "The Pleasure of Stripes - Fintz’s Abstract Paintings"

Christudas, Sam - The Arts - The New Straits Times, KL, MY, Wed. Sept. 24,1999, A-3 "Venturing Into A New Dimension"

Halliday, Janet - The Arts - Day and Night, KL, MY, June 23-29,1999, p.14 & 51 "Colour And Feelling”

Anu, Jay - Arts- Sunday Plus - The Arts, The Star, KL, MY, Dec 15, 1996, p.18, "An Experience of Many Hues”

Wright, Churchill, Peg - "Brushmarks" - Arts & Entertainment - The Daily Gazette, Schenectady Thurs. November 17, 1994 - p. A- 9, "A Bold Show In Plaid"

Kreiner, Rich - "Art" - Metroland, Albany NY, Dec 1 - 7,1994 - "Color Loaded," Jeanette Fintz and Fumiko Shido

Jaeger, W. - Art Review - SHOWTIME - The Times Union, Albany, Sunday, Dec. 18,1994 – p.H-2  "Fintz's paintings not only pretty"

Cohen, Ronny - Leslie Urbach Gallery, Albany, NY - Nov-Dec 1994 - "Jeanette Fintz -Paintings," (catalogue)

Myers, Terry - The Police Building, NYC, April, 1994 -"Out of Line - II," (catalogue)

Jaeger, William - Art Review  - ENTERTAINMENT - The Times Union, Albany, March 12, 1994 - p. D -5 “Artists' Nature' presents moving, beautiful show in Catskill gallery"

Princenthal, Nancy - PS 122 Gallery, NYC - March 1993 - essay for the show "Out of Line -4 Abstract Painters"

Lail, Thomas - Art Review - PREVIEW - The Times Union, Albany, Thursday, Aug 27, 1992, p.27 "Cross and Fintz Display Artists' Process"

Martin, Mary Abbe - Reviews - Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Feb. 2, 1986, p.36

Cohen, Ronny - Warm Gallery, Minn. MN, 1986, "Structure and Metaphor, Six Contemporary Visions," (catalogue)

Westfall, Stephen - Reviews - Arts Magazine, September 1985 - p. 40

Westfall, Stephen - Reviews - Arts Magazine, Summer 1985 - p. 36



PUBLISHED REVIEWS & ESSAYS

Fintz, Jeanette “The Ritual of Construction," catalog essay, Kleinert James Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, May-July 2017

Fintz, J - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, July 2006 p. 13- "Informed Color at BRIK Gallery," Catskill, NY curator’s statement

Fintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Dec 2005, p.28, ”Catskill’s New Vision,” No Place like Home, BRIK Gallery, 473 Main Street, Catskill, NY

Fintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Nov 2005  p.34  “Cutting To the Spirit- The New Emerging From the Old," Lu Shengzhong, University Art Museum, Albany, NY

Fintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Oct  2005 p. 22  “Cosmic Road Signs," Adolph Golttlieb The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY

Fintz J - Metroland, Albany, NY Sept 2005 p. 31 “Overlooked Expressionists” Betty Parson’s Women, Oplaka Gallery, Sage Colleges, Albany, NY

Fintz, J. – The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, May 2004 p.10-11 “Idiomatic Expressions," Bogdan & Erickson at Van Brunt Beacon

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Nov.2003 p.8 “Reading Space," Roger Shepherd at A D D, Gallery, Hudso,n NY

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Sept.2003, p.8 ”Circumferences” Brown & Isherwood at TSL, Hudson, NY

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, June 2003, p.8 ”Time’sTexture," Al & Jean Strausman at Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Apr. 2003, p.11 “Marking Space-MakingTime"

B. Stiglich, at Arts Center/ Capitol Region,Troy, NY & V. Pomilio at Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NY

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington MA, Jan. 2003, p. 6 “ Departures, Arrivals & Pitstop s- Jean Feinberg, Susan Mastrangelo & Joan Grubin at A D D Gallery”

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA, Dec. 2002, p.6 ” Two Hats-Tony Thompson At RPI”

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA, Oct. 2002, p.6-7 ” Life Lines- David Eddy & Doug Clow”

Fintz, J. - The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA,Sept. 2002, p.6 “ Don Porcaro & Leslie Wayne” at S. Dorsky Museum, SUNY  New Paltz

Fintz, J. - Arts & Antiques - Register/Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Dec. 3,1999, p. A-10 " Joseph Haske, Abstract Paintings"

Fintz, J. - Arts & Antiques - Register/Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Oct., 1,1999. p. A –10 "Ledy's Sculpture's On Exhibit.”

Fintz, J. - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. April 16, 1999, p. A-6, "Suspension of Disbelief”

Fintz, J  - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson NY, Fri. Nov. 10, 1998, p. A –6,
” Photographers Pushing Boundaries"

Fintz, J. - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Sept 25,1998, p. A-6, "From the Inside Out"

Fintz, J - Arts -  Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. Aug. 21 1998, p  A-6, "How to Be In Space"

Fintz, J. - Arts - Register / Star, Hudson, NY, Fri. July 10  1998, p  A 6,"Surroundings, Revised, Revisited”