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, Bklyn.NY, Hobart & Wm.Smith Colleges,Geneva, NY, The University of Southern Maine,Portland, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia ,PA, and SUNY, Albany.

Jeanette shows her work the Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington MA, the ThompsonGiroux Gallery,Chatham NY and FoxGalleryNYC.

Recent projects include a Solo Show at Berkshire Community College (Spring 2016) and a curatorial project scheduled for May 2017 at the Kleinert /James Center at the Woodstock /Byrdcliffe Guild.

Ms Fintz’s Residencies /Fellowships include: The  MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts, The Ucross Foundation, 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 & Wm. 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.
 

Selected US & International Public Collections include:

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Boston MA
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, NYC
Commerzbank 2 World Financial Center NYC
National Television 7 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Hobart & Wm Smith Colleges Geneva NY
Skowhegan School
Collections of Minister of Agriculture Datuk Effendi & Datin Norwawi
& the Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia


Selected Private Collections include:
 
Jim & Debbie Ellickson -Brown, Cultural Attache, American Embassy, KL Malaysia (1996)
Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Suherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, MY & Singapore
Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Aloysious Goh, Singapore
Carrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NY
Albert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CA
Ray Cubero & Kathy Cumerford, Watermill, NY
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
Hella Ossenberg, NYC & Palm Beach, FL
Gabriel & Carol 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, Albany, NY
Mark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CA
George A Schulman, Los Angeles, CA
Gerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CA
Jerry & Caryl Horn, Chicago, IL & 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
Paolo & Kaska Arencibia New York, NY
Jin Zeng   New York, NY