Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading In Color by Page Bond Gallery

MARY ELLEN BARTLEY READING IN COLOR

Front and Back Cover Image: Mary Ellen Bartley, Reading Color #20, 2020, Edition of 7, Archival pigment print, 17 x 22 inches framed

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MARY ELLEN BARTLEY READING IN COLOR

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Mary Ellen Bartley, Summer Reading #8, 2019, Edition of 7, Archival pigment print, 17 x 22 inches framed

MARY ELLEN BARTLEY READING IN COLOR Page Bond Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Reading In Color, recent photographs, by Mary Ellen Bartley. Previously appearing in group shows, this is Bartley’s first solo exhibition in the gallery.

Bartley’s book portraits as subject matter are well known. Reading In Color is an exploration of the tactile and formal qualities of printed “pulp” paperback books-- a word that connotes both the content and material of the physical pages. Drawn to their formal qualities and aesthetic as intellectual objects, Bartley has used books in her compositions since 2004. Over the years, she has worked with various libraries and collections to source books for her series, including Jackson Pollock’s personal collection, as well as the Beale women of Grey Gardens. For Reading In Color, Bartley sourced her collection of “pulp” from The Strand, a beloved

independent bookstore in New York City. Searching through the bins of forty-eight-cent paperbacks for “pulp,” Bartley amassed hundreds of titles belonging to this popular American mass-marketed genre. As still life compositions, her works oscillate between abstraction, sculptural assemblage and color studies; as photographs, they exist as portraits of hidden histories and repurposed fiction in their segments of color. Her work has been exhibited in numerous institutions, including The Queens Museum, NY; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Houston Center for Photography; The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; The Watermill Center, NY; and National Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Guatemala City. Bartley has taken part in numerous residencies, including at The Queens Museum, NY; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; and Watermill Center, NY. Bartley’s work is in numerous collections, including the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; McEvoy Family Collection, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Watermill Collection, Watermill, NY. Born in New York, NY, in 1959, Bartley received her BFA from Purchase College, SUNY. She lives and works in New York.

Mary Ellen Bartley, Reading Color #26, 2020, Edition of 7, Archival pigment print, 17 x 22 inches framed 5

Reading Color #20, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Reading Color #21, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Reading Color #22, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Reading Color #23, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Reading Color #25, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Reading Color #26, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Reading Color #27, 2020 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 22 x 17 inches framed $3000 unframed

Summer Reading #4, 2019 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Summer Reading #8, 2019 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Summer Reading #13, 2019 Edition of 7 Archival pigment print 17 x 22 inches framed $3000 unframed

Mary Ellen Bartley

Lives and works in New York, NY Education BFA, Purchase College, SUNY, Harrison, NY Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading in Color, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2020 Volumes, Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin, Germany 2020 Return to Summer Reading, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY 2020 7 Things Again and Again, Yancey Richardson Gallery, online exhibition 2019 Reading in Color, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2017 Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading Grey Gardens, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY 2017 Library Copies, Studio 5, The Queens Museum, Richmond, VA 2016 Mary Ellen Bartley: Looking Between the Covers, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2016 Mary Ellen Bartley: Still Books, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2016 The Tactile Eye, Project Space, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 2015 Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY 2014 Mary Ellen Bartley: Learning Above the Page, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, ................. NY 2015 Mary Ellen Bartley: Paperbacks, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY 2013 Blue Books, Photographs by Mary Ellen Bartley, Graficas Gallery, Nantucket, MA 2012 Mary Ellen Bartley, Photographs, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY 2012 Mary Ellen Bartley, Standing Open, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY 2011 Mary Ellen Bartley, Books, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 The Armory Show 2020, New York, NY 2020 Vision 2020, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 2020 View Find 9, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2019 Qualities of Light. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ 2019 What is an Edition Anyway?, McEvoy Foundation of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2019 Parrish Perspectives, Recent Acquisitions in Context, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY 2019 Recess, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2018 Interventions, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Spirit of Place, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY 26

2018 Picture: Books, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC 2017 La Mère, La Mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2017 Deception, Filter Space, Chicago, IL 2017 Art of the Book, Seager/Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2017 Spring Installation, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY 2017 View Find 6, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2016 Ordinary Pictures, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2016 Lux: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2016 The Lives of Books, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL 2016 Water/Bodies, Southahmpton Arts Center, Southhampton, NY 2016 A Field Guide to Nowhere, Brock University Ontario, Canada 2016 Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Fotofest International Biennial 2016, Houston, ..................TX 2015 Winter Salon, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2015 Off Print Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 2015 Cielo Perro Lobo, National Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Guatemala ..................City, Guatemala 2015 Burning with Desire, Curious Duke Gallery, London, UK 2015 Fotobook Festical Kassel, Book Dummy Awards 2015, Shortlisted Books Exhibition, Kassel, Germany 2014 The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2014 Well Read: Visual Explorations of the Book, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA 2014 John Alexander, Antonio Asis, Jennifer Bertlett, Mary Ellen Bartley, Chuck Holtzman, Mel Kendrik, Dan Rizzie, and Alan Shields, The Drawing Room, East .................Hampton, NY 2014 Book Ends, Cara Barer and Mary Ellen Bartley, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA 2014 Paris Photo 2014, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Paris, France 2014 White Columns Benefit Exhibition 2014, New York, NY 2014 How One Thing Leads to Another, Critical Mass 2013, Corden Potts Gallery, San .................Francisco, CA 2014 The Armory Show 2014, Pier 94, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Paris Photo 2013, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Paris, France 2013 Gallery Artists: Aycock, Antonakos, BArtley, Heatley, Nivola, Ross, The Drawing ..................Room, East Hampton, NY 2013 The Optical, Blue SKy Gallery, Portland, OR 2013 A Whiter Shade of Pale, Kinse Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 2013 Geografica, Fototropia Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala 27

2013 Color and Light, Critical Mass 2012, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona ................Beach, FL 2013 New Work, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY 2013 Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition 2013, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX 2013 Spaces, The International Photography Awards + MOPLA, The Loft at Liz’s, Los ................ Angeles, CA 2013 Beautiful My Desire, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2012 Out of Print, Bakersfield Art Museum, Bakersfield, CA 2012 Anthology, Southeast Museum of Photogrpahy, Daytona Beach, FL 2012 Equivalents, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA 2012 Exposure 2012, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA 2012 Group Therapy, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY 2012 Lust, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2012 Summer Solstice, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 2012 Contents, Critical Mass 2011, PCNW, Seattle, WA 2012 Portfolio, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 Artists Choose Artists, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY 2011 Houston Center for Photography, Annual Juried Show, Houston, TX 2011 Memento, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 2011 Portfolio 2, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Reader’s Delight, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY 2010 Excentrica, Longhouse, East Hampton, NY 2009 It’s Still Life, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Photo-Op, Photogrpahic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA 2009 Invitational, Islip Museum, Islip, NY 2009 Mood Swings, Solar Gallery, East Hampton, NY Selected Publications 2019 ‘La Mère, La Mer,’ Exhibition catalog, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2016 Fotograf, #29 contemplation, “Mary Ellen bartley, Between the Spiritual and the ..................Abstract” By Pavel Banka, Vol. 16, Prague, CZ 2016 Ordinary Pictures, Exhibition catalog, Walker Art Center 2016 The Tactile Eye, by Mary Ellen Bartley, Twelve page insert in Afterimage, The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 44, No.s 1 & 2 2015 Reading Robert Wilson, Hand-bound artist book 2014 Mary Ellen Bartley: Learning Above the Page, Interview with Ross Bleckner, Guild ..................Hall Museum, Exhibition catalog

2012 20 Now: Contemporary Photogrpahers, Nagasaki Shaw and Summer Hung Selected Collections Center for the Creative Photogrpahy, Tucson, AZ Guild Hall Art Museum, East Hampton, NY McEvoy Family Collection, San Francisco, CA Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY The Watermill Collection, Watermill, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

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