Announcing Jaq Chartier’s exhibition, Remain in Light

(Seattle, WA) –February 15, 2022 – J. Rinehart Gallery is honored to announce Remain in Light the much-anticipated solo exhibition of new work by Seattle-based painter, Jaq Chartier. After exhibiting her work nationally and internationally for the past 10 years, we are thrilled to have her work make a reappearance in Seattle for her first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Remain in Light will be on view online and in the gallery April 2 – May 7, 2022. An opening reception will be held in the gallery Saturday April 2, 2022 from 3-6pm, and an artist Meet & Greet during First Thursday April 7th, from 5-8pm.

Chartier’s custom formulas of deeply saturated inks, stains and dyes applied to her soft white panels, set up a tension between a minimal aesthetic and effusive lush color. Each piece is approached as a scientific experiment, coded with written notation and hidden chemistries. Her formulas are subjected to various tests as the artist documents their change as the colors bleed, shift, and migrate through other layers of paint.

Light sensitive colors are deliberately exposed to sunlight allowing them to shift in hue or completely disappear. The artist scans these paintings daily to digitally document this change to create limited- edition archival dye sublimation prints on aluminum—permanent records of transient moments.

A combination of Chartier’s paintings and works from her SunTest series will be on view.

Jaq Chartier attended Syracuse University for film, and then obtained her BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her MFA in painting from the University of Washington, Seattle. She was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award nominee, a Creative Capital Grant finalist, and a finalist for the 2011 Contemporary Northwest Art Award at the Portland Art Museum. Her awards include an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, a Purchase Award from the Portable Works Collection of Seattle Public Utilities, and a PONCHO Special Recognition Award from the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Committee. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Microsoft, The Allen Institute, Google Cloud Collection, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and most recently collected by the Esberg Museum in Denmark.