Artwork copyright Jacqueline Barnett. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Jacqueline Barnett. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Summer Mooring, 1991

Jacqueline Barnett
(American, born 1934)

Location: Shoreline Community College, Shoreline

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Summer Mooring is a dream-like and expressive abstract painting by artist Jacqueline Barnett, characterized by energetic, suggestive, and ambiguous forms. The artist notes that this painting seeks to evoke the constant flux of life, with imagery "reminiscent of youth, of summer nights, romantic sails, beaches, sand dunes, gentle moonlit romance. Yet, it is just a summer mooring, a temporary haven in the sea of life."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Shoreline Community College.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jacqueline Barnett is a Seattle-based artist. Her abstract artworks explore visual narratives and emotions found in the interaction of color, gesture, and form.
Born in New York, Barnett took an interest in art from a young age. In 1955, she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1966, her husband accepted a faculty position at Stanford Law School and they moved to California with their five children. She first took formal painting classes at Stanford, where she became interested in feminism and in communicating a sense of self in her paintings and monotype prints. She and her husband have lived in Seattle since 1985, where she continues to create expressive and energetic abstract paintings.