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
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2015 |
EYP Architecture & Engineering Award, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region |
2015 |
Trustees Award, Albany Institute of History & Art |
2013 |
Sabbatical, Parsons the New School For Design |
2008 |
The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award / Painting, National Academy of Design |
2005 |
Sabbatical, Parsons the New School for School Design |
2005 |
Sudden Opportunity Stipend |
2003 |
Faculty Development Award, Parsons, the New School for School for Design |
1995-92 |
Sudden Opportunity Stipend, NYFA Rensselaer County Council for the Arts |
1993 |
N Y F A, Artists Fellowship / Drawing |
1990 |
E. D. Foundation Grant / Painting |
1984 |
Ludwig Vogelstein Grant / Painting |
1980 |
The Ingram Merrill Award / Painting |
1975 |
Purchase Prize, Painting, Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture |
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 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY , Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington MA and The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY.
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
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2021 |
"NEW WORK," Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 12434 |
2019 |
"PULSE," Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 12434 |
2017 |
“Worldline Schreiber Paintings, plus...," Garvey/Simon Gallery 547 W 27th St, New
York, NY |
2016 |
"The Presence of the Invisible Proposition," Koussevitsky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA |
2012 |
"Andalusian Shards," The Wall Street Journal Bldg Lobby, New York, NY |
2012 |
"The Plaid Paintings," Rodale Press Bldg. Lobby, 733 3rd Avenue,
Durst Organization, New York, NY |
2004 |
A. D. D. Gallery Hudson, NY |
2002 |
Hudson Opera House Hudson, NY |
2001 |
Southern Vermont Arts Center,
Manchester,
VT |
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Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA |
2000 |
A. D. D. Gallery, Hudson, NY |
1999 |
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY |
1997 |
Gallerie Taksu Kuala Lumpur, MY |
1992 |
The Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY |
1986 |
Ohio St University |
1985 |
55 Mercer ST Gallery, New York, NY |
1984 |
Hobart & William Smith Colleges |
1979 |
Prince ST Gallery, New York, NY |
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Hobart & William Smith Colleges |
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2021-20 |
The BIG HolidayShow LABspace, Hillsdale NY |
2021 |
Mohawk Hudson Regional, Opalka Gallery Sage, Colleges Albany NY12208 |
2021 |
NY_SS Alumni Exhibition 2021 Online & on Artsy |
2021 |
Hermerica, Kleinert / James Center for the Arts Woodstock NY 12498 |
2020 |
"BUILT," Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY |
2019 |
"In Pursuit of Color," Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY |
2018 |
The Greatest Show On Earth, Sideshow, Williamsburg NY |
2018 |
Hygge, CrossContemporary, Saugerties NY |
2017 |
En Masse 4 ThompsonGiroux Gallery Chatham NY |
2017 |
Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, 90 West Broadway, New
York, NY |
2017 |
GAMUT, Jeffrey Bishop, Jeanette Fintz, Matthew Langley, Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY |
2017 |
A Declaration of Sentiments: Reflections on the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State,
Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY |
2017 |
Thru The Rabbit Hole 2, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY |
2016 |
En Masse 3, Thompson Giroux, Chatham, NY |
2016 |
Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley 5, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY |
2015 |
Remains to be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA |
2015 |
En Masse#2 Thompson Giorux, Chatham, NY |
2015 |
Off The Grid Concourse A, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY |
2015 |
Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY |
2015 |
Longitude & Latitude, Jeanette Fintz & D. Jack Solomon, Broderick Fine Art, Freehold NY |
2015 |
Taking Root: Caniskek & the Meeting of Two Worlds, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY |
2015 |
Circle The Wagons, Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY |
2014 |
En Masse Thompson Giroux, Chatham, NY |
2014 |
Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY |
2014 |
We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY |
2014 |
Sideshow Nation II Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY |
2013 |
Shape Shifter, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham NY |
2013 |
Sideshow Nation Sideshow Williamsburg, NY |
2012 |
Abstract & Concrete, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY |
2012 |
Jeanette Fintz D. Jack Solomon, Fox Gallery, New York, NY |
2012 |
MIC Check Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY |
2006-12 |
Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley #s1- 4, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY |
2010 |
Charged Brushes, Painting Center, New York, NY |
2011 |
It's all Good! -Apocalypse Now, Sideshow Gallery, Wlliamsburg, NY |
2010 |
View Four, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY |
2010 |
Prince Street Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition, 530 W 25th Street, New York, NY |
2010 |
It's a Wonderful10th Anniversary ! Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY |
2009 |
The Breakfast Club, GCCA, Catskill, NY |
2009 |
Surface Tension, Albany International Airport, Concourse A, Albany, NY |
2009 |
The Affordable Art Fair,New York, NY |
2008 |
The Millay Colony for Arts 35th
Anniversary Invitational, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY |
2008 |
National Academy of Design 183rd Annual
Invitational, New
York, NY |
2008 |
“Locally Grown”, Albany International
Airport, Albany, NY |
2008 |
“Peace” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg,
NY |
2007 |
“This End Up” 3 Person Exhibition,
Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY |
2007 |
“Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley 2”, BRIK
Gallery, Catskill, NY |
2006 |
“Cowgirls of the Hudson” Valley, BRIK
Gallery, Catskill, NY
Curator, Richard Timperio
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2006 |
“Jeanette Fintz & D. Jack Solomon,"
Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY |
2006 |
Three Person Exhibition, Enderlin
Gallery, Roxbury, NY |
2006 |
“Informed Color," BRIK Gallery, Catskill,
NY |
2006 |
“13th Anniversary Show," The Painting
Center 52 Green St.,New York, NY |
2005 |
Small Works, Bond Gallery, New York, NY |
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Invitational, Richard Sena Gallery,
Hudson, NY |
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“Abstracts” -Columbia County Council for
the Arts, Hudson, NY |
2004 |
“Nature Abstracted” -The Painting
Center, New
York, NY |
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“New Hudson, New York," Carl Van Brunt
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Carl Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon NY |
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Group Painting Invitational, A. D.
D. Gallery Hudson NY |
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Millay Colony for the Arts 30th
Anniversary Exhibition
Albany International Airport Gallery,
Albany, NY
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2003 |
"Resilience," Richard Sena Gallery,
Hudson, NY |
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Mohawk-Hudson Regional - University Art
Museum,
SUNY Albany, NY |
2002 |
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
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“Haven," Arts Center for the Capitol
Region, Troy NY |
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Southern Vermont Arts Center Manchester,
VT |
2001 |
“Fundamental Change," A. D. D. Gallery, Hudson NY |
2000
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Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY |
1999 |
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY |
1997 |
Valentine Willie Fine Arts, Bangsar KL MY |
1996
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Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur MY |
1995 |
Mohawk-Hudson Regional, Schenectady
Museum, Schenectady, NY |
1994
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“Out of Line 2,"The Police Building, New York, NY |
1993
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“Out of Line1” PS 122, New York, NY |
1992 |
Invitational Art In General, New York,
NY, Curator :Holly Bock, |
1988 |
“Nature in Art," One Penn Plaza New
York, NY, Curator: Ronny Cohen |
1986 |
“Structure and Metaphor," Warm Gallery
Minneapolis, MN |
1986-84 |
Painting Invitational, John Davis
Gallery Akron, OH |
1985 |
Painting Invitational, Pam Adler
Gallery, NewYork, NY |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ArtSpiel Interview with Carter Ratcliff, Balance & Beam Paintings at Carie Haddad Gallery July 2021
NY SS Alumni Studio Visit with Jeanette Fintz online interview August 2021
Off Warren Chronogram magazine Sept 2021, Open Studio Hudson, Photo: David McIntyre page 53
Freeling Isa, “Worldline Schreiber Paintings by Jeanette Fintz at GarveySimon," Art & Culture, The Huffington Post, October 12, 2017
Read article>>
WSI “Worldline Schreiber Paintings _Sept 7-Oct 7, 2017 GarveySimon Gallery NY USA," Wall Street International, Art, Sept 14, 2017
Read article>>
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 "Symmetry of the plane, improvisation and ellipsis in the Worldline Schreiber Paintings”, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2018.1552069, published March 2019
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”
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