Jaq Chartier
Artist Bio
SunTest #11 (Day 1), 2024
Jaq Chartier is known for her rigorous Testing series, which explores scientific methods through experimentation with paints, pigments, dyes and inks. Chartier's artworks incorporate elements of color field painting, process art and minimalism. Jaq Chartier received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) and her MFA at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). She has exhibited widely at such venues as the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA), Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern, Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (Ahlen, Germany), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), and Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA). Her work is included in many public and private collections, including the Schwartz Art Collection at Harvard Business School (Cambridge, MA), Progressive Art Collection (Cleveland, OH) and the Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA).
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Mutable Paintings
Jaq Chartier Dec 4, 2025 - Jan 10, 2026Mutable Paintings extends Jaq Chartier ’s Testing series into fresh territory. Cube forms and shifting marks interact like tiny worlds in motion, where chance and variation shape what emerges. The...Read more -
SunTests
Jaq Chartier May 7 - Jun 27, 2020Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Seattle-based painter Jaq Chartier 's SunTests . This new series of dye sublimation prints on aluminum are time-based 'image captures' of the artist's...Read more -
Hunting Color
Jaq Chartier Sep 1 - Oct 1, 2016 -
Ultra Marine
Jaq Chartier May 2 - Jun 1, 2013 -
SuperNatural
Jaq Chartier Feb 4 - 27, 2010
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