Jennifer Bartlett’s distinguished career as a painter and printmaker has spanned over thirty years in which her prints and paintings have been exhibited in many of the most respected museums and galleries around the world. Institutions such as The Tate, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Museum of Modern Art, New York represent a small detailing of her extensive list of public collections. A survey of her work, whether by catalogue or exhibition, reveal paintings and prints where both realism and abstraction are often given equal status. Typically, influences of Pointillism, Impressionism and Expressionism as well as subtle nuances of Matisse, Johns and Pollock are clearly and joyfully evident.

In Bartlett’s works, what may often appear as mundane images, houses, trees and water, have consistently been the source of some of the most significant and interesting exploration in her work. In one of her most prolific and recurring images, the house, we see what Bartlett has loosely referred to as "…an alter ego…a metaphor for the different phases of her life…the house as a symbolic portrait of people…" In her screenprint House – Dots and Hatches, for example, the simplicity of a basic triangle and square is enhanced by her signature use of color, dots and cross-hatching to create an image of beautiful complexity that is both engaging and challenging to the eye.