Artwork copyright Jeffrey Bishop. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.

Artwork copyright Jeffrey Bishop. Photo courtesy of the artist, 1986.

Berkeley, 1983

Jeffrey Bishop
American (born 1949)

Location: Nisqually Middle School, Olympia

About the Artwork

Artist Jeffrey Bishop included the painting Berkeley in his solo-exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum in 1983. The title references his birthplace in Berkeley, CA and British philosopher Bishop Berkeley. He notes, "In the painting a liquid flame thrusts upward as an emotive counterpoint to the hovering ethereal quadrangle, a mental geometry."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with North Thurston Public Schools.

About the Artist

New York City-based artist Jeffrey Bishop creates abstract paintings, installations, and works on paper. He notes, "I draw obliquely from a variety of interests. Physics, cosmology, architecture, poetics and technology are among subjects which consume me but which I pursue and parse with a rather amateur kind of passion." Born in Berkeley, California, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He received a Graduate Certificate from Boston Museum School, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1977.