Saturday, September 6, 2014

Tiny Universe


Thanks Flagpole Magazine and Jessica Smith.

Art Around Town


Jennifer Hartley is one of 70 Athens and Atlanta based artists included in "Tiny Universe," an exhibition of small works currently on view at Gallery@Hotel Indigo through Friday, Sept. 19.

http://www.flagpole.com/arts-culture/art-around-town/2014/09/03/art-around-town-130




Thursday, July 25, 2013

Get Your Butt to the Classic Center.......You know you want to.

I know you've All been waiting for an excuse to visit the Classic Center. Well, wait no longer... "Inhabit" and "Here and There" will only be on display for one more month, until August 26. "Inhabit" is a show of figurative paintings by Claire Dunphy, Hooper Turner, and Art Rosenbaum as well as myself. "Here and There" is an exhibit of photography by Thom Houser, Michael Marshall, Rinne Allen, Michael Lachowski, Jim Fiscus, and Michael Oliveri. Both shows were curated by Didi Dunphy. Oh, and look....a detail of one of my paintings is on the front of the brochure....

Friday, March 15, 2013

"Walk" New work at Cine'

 Check out this little write up from the Athens Banner Herald.....
Thank you Andre Gallant and Online Athens

Jennifer Hartley paints the townies in Ciné show

The houses that back-line Jennifer Hartley’s paintings are domiciles, probably rentals, that you’ve passed by many times. You’ve walked your dog past a typical brick Newtown two-bedroom, one-story home with iron brackets holding up a shame of a porch. You’ve shuffled toward a Boulevard house party and missed the aqua green clapboard siding squirrel nest set back off the sidewalk by a few yards.
Imagine Jennifer Hartley like a photographer who watched you on these simple, daily journeys. You saw her pointing her lens at you, and maybe you lifted your eyes for a second to catch her but remained focused on your stroll.
Hartley’s paintings are reminiscent of an Athens that may or may not be anymore: a demure slackerdom of loose jeans, unkempt hair and unmowed lawns that’s been either cordoned or run off by development and time.
Paintings the artist made available before the opening of her new Ciné show depict a sweet, personal side of Hartley’s obviously in-town neighborhood. Townies you may recognize — if townies are your thing — walk their dogs through streets near downtown Athens. Weather and season are evident in her paintings, and their warmth or coolness urges the viewer to cuddle up or cool off.
Her animals are spot-on, as are the humans except for the faces. There, you find a sometimes comical, slightly sad or kind of pumped expressions, or surprise.
Check out her past work at www.jenniferhartley.com, and you’ll notice that her new paintings on display now venture toward heavier realism than before. Some of the early subjects’ framing evoked magical realism, but these new paintings come off like glimpses of daydreams, foggy around the edges but ultimately familiar.
— André Gallant, Staff


http://onlineathens.com/visual-art/2013-02-27/jennifer-hartley-paints-townies-cine-show

I just found a link to this radio interview that was conducted at the same time as this exhibit. Check it out:  http://sidewalkradio.com/episodes/single/55


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Check it Out!

I made the cover. 8/24/2011
http://flagpole.com/Weekly

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Sunday, January 9, 2011

"My sweet, sweet...."

I'm excited to announce that I have some work included in the upcoming exhibit My sweet, sweet..., the Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College opening February 3!

http://daltongallery.agnesscott.edu/sweet/Sweet_temp.html