Jack Barnett does representational paintings, which explore fundamental components of the figure, landscape and collage, retaining their formal roots but diverging into disparate interpretations of their relationships.

Barnett began his art career as a landscape painter in 1965. When he began college at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he started experimenting with abstraction, making collages. These works incorporated the juxtaposition of unrelated images and the use of different scales. He bounced back and forth for some time between those two subjects, landscape/figurative and abstraction. Throughout this period he experimented with those ideas, combining them in various ways i...