J.S. Cartier

Background

J.S. Cartier was born on October 31, 1932 in Paris, France.

Education

J.S. Cartier received a DEPP degree at Lycee Hoche in Versailles, France (1949), and a BEPC at College d'Altitude, Briancon, France (1950). He also studied at Ecole des Arts Appliques in Paris (1950-1951) and at Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts, Oxford, England (1957-1960).

Career

J.S. Cartier served as director of the Photography Department of French Cultural Services in New York from 1970 to 1977. A freelance photographer since 1977.

Back in New York (1960), J.S. Cartier followed the abstract-expressionist school and was strongly influenced by Pollock, Kline, de Kooning and Tworkov but also Newman, Still and Rothko. He also began to photograph at this time and he recorded the destruction of Lower Manhattan on color slides, all of which were subsequently stolen (1965); this work marked the beginning of the series of "X" paintings Pulitzer prizewinner Carolyn Kizer mentions in "Midnight Was My Cry".

At the end of the 60's, J.S. Cartier was using auto lacquers on plexiglas modules and shaped canvases and the "white colors" of his sprayed paintings became more and more minimal. Beginning in the 70's, he experimented with liquid acrylics running down the top edge of the canvas, creating a "waterfall" effect; this was followed by the first paintings of the "Windows" series, followed in 1987-88 by an experiment incorporating painting, newspaper pages and photographs.

In 1994, J.S. Cartier moved to France. That summer, he began a series of large works on canvas, returning to the themes and symbols which had always inspired him: windows, grids, the "X" symbol, pyramids and clouds, worked into conflicting complexity. Lately, Cartier has been working on triptych and quadriptych supports, with a limited range of colors. At the same time, Cartier pursued his photographic career.

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