Jeannie Motherwell, born and raised in New York City, studied painting at Bard College and the Art Students League in New York. Continuing art after college, she became active in arts education at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, until relocating to Cambridge, MA, where she worked at Boston University for the graduate program in Arts Administration (2002 – 2015). She has served on the Cambridge Arts Council Public Art Commission 2004 - 2007, the Advisory Board for Joy Street Artists Open Studios in Somerville, MA (2017-2020), and was most recently on the Board of Directors of Provincetown Arts Magazine (2020 – 2023). Her work has been featured in public and private collections throughout the US and abroad. Jeannie has been exhibiting in Provincetown since 1998 and at Schoolhouse Gallery since 2020, ironically located below the former Long Point Gallery where her father, the artist Robert Motherwell, exhibited. Provincetown’s influence is clearly visible in her work, where she once maintained a studio on Provincetown Bay for approximately 35 years. Currently she paints full-time at her studio in Somerville, MA, and has frequented Provincetown every year for over 60 years. “It is a rare intention, nowadays, to seek out beauty as the final product. But when Motherwell guides us there, we can feel it in our bones as a primal reaction…As viewers, we have been yearning for this complete relinquishment of control. To view her work is to get swept away in the sea, and to enjoy it.” Isabelle Turgeon Jeannie begins a painting by first laying it on the floor. She then pours paint with abandon, often mixing various mediums for effect, then spreads the paint until something speaks to her. Once the paint is dry, she leans the painting against the wall and begins editing. “My paintings are inspired by the mysteries of outer space and the effects of weather upon the sea. My employment of pouring, bleeding, and layering becomes a complex and expansive ‘inner space’ on the flat surface.” Jeannie Motherwell Motherwell has spent years on the Provincetown Bay, watching the tides, the boats, the clear blue and calm of peaceful weather, as well as the black, tempestuous skies of storm. That is her core. More recently, she has transferred that awesome sense of divine wonder to the vast sea of unknowable space via the Hubble telescope. The natural world is an endless resource where inner and outer space are expansive, raw, and unfiltered for Motherwell.