With visual references to science, Jaq Chartier's abstract paintings collectively called 'Testing' explore color, materials and impermanence.

Jaq Chartier (born 1961) is an American visual artist. Chartier gained recognition for her Testing series, abstract paintings that are also active visual records of Chartier's tests of her materials - how they migrate and change in reaction to each other, sunlight, and the passage of time.

Jaq Chartier (b. 1961) is an American visual artist. Her vibrant, alchemical artworks are investigations into how materials interact, colors shift, and affective experiences transport and transcend. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Esbjerg Art Museum, Bill & Melinda Gates Research Institute, Microsoft, The Allen Institute, Google ...

“Dot matrix: Jaq Chartier smears the line between art and science with her DNA-inspired blobs,” Seattle Weekly, 10/9/06. Faigin, Gary. “ Jaq Chartier at Platform Gallery ,” artdish.com , 9/23/06, (image).

Jaq Chartier attended Syracuse University for film, and then obtained her BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her MFA in painting from the University of Washington, Seattle. She was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award nominee, a …

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Jaq Chartier’s paintings explore scientific methods through experimentation with paint and process. All of her works are “tests” to discover something about materials and what they do. Inspired in part by images of DNA gel electrophoresis, Chartier investigates the migration of various stains through layers of paint and acrylic gels.