Throughout her artistic career, Jennifer Bartlett moved fluidly between minimalism, conceptualism, and neo-expressionism, often using several approaches within a single work, whether small and contained or monumental in scale. Earth Fireworks belongs to her Earth series, an autobiographical body of work in which Bartlett explored her childhood memories. In this series, she balanced conceptual systems with more personal and recognizable imagery.
Bartlett studied at Mills College in Oakland, California, before earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and later moving to New York City.
Her work is in the permanent collections of many major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Tate, London.
