Known for painted images that appear to move back and forth in a progressive way, Jennifer Bartlett conveys a sense of computer systems operating behind the visual movement of her work, which is both abstract and realistic. Her career as a Conceptual artist "came of age in the late 1960s" when at age 27 and reflecting the prevalent style of Minimalism, she decided to do all of her artwork on a 16-gauge steel panel, 1-foot square that looked "like a very thin flooring tile" (Katz 106) and that had been pre-prepared with silk-screened grid lines, giving the appearance of graph paper.

For the next several years, she worked on these panels by dabbing a "single point of paint into some of the tiny squares." The result was...