Al Jarnow

I began in Brooklyn in 1945, moving to Northport on Long Island Sound when my son Jesse was born. I’ve been an artist my entire adult life (and well before that) moving through a wide range of explorations, experiences and mediums and always in pursuit of the flow through space, time and light. I set out on a path of realist painting > landscapes > interiors and expanded to a panoramic format encompassing physicality, philosophy and dynamics. I’ve had several solo gallery shows and assorted group shows but not very satisfying encounters > which led to experiments with animation. My works are in MOMA and Met collections and shown at numerous screenings around the world. I began to direct and produce short animations for PBS educational programming: Ring of Truth. Creation of the Universe, Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, etc. all the while continuing my personal explorations. Lines between art and commerce get blurry with each path often informing the other. Changing technologies of animation and the advent of the Apple II brought me back to software coding (first encountered at Dartmouth as a guinea pig for BASIC). A year-long National Science Foundation led to multi-disciplinary approaches to learning which led to co-founding the Lon...

Dartmouth College, Brooklyn Museum School
Grants and awards: National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, New York State Council of the Arts, American Film Institute.
Teacher:
Motion Graphics and Film History at Pratt Institute
Artist-in-residence and guest lecturer:
Art Institute of Chicago, Yale, NYU, etc.

PAINTING
Park Gallery
Grey Art Gallery
Berlin Art Circle
Exploratorium, SF
National Gallery of Art
Heckscher Museum
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
FILM & SOFTWARE:
Pompidou Center
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Whitney Museum
Heckscher Museum
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
National Museum of Science and Industry, London