<p>"I was inspired by the late 19th and early 20th century painters whose work I so frequently encountered in my visits as a child to The Art Institute of Chicago. I was drawn to the richly subjective realism of such diverse artistic sensibilities as Cezanne, Van Gogh, Vuillard, Bonnard, Matisse, Homer and Eakens. I also felt a strong connection to the Bay Area Figure Painters…Park and Diebenkorn and Bischoff.</p> <p>My autobiographical paintings explore a particular American time and place using photographs and the filter of memory. The paintings focus on the experience of growing up in Chicago in an upper middle class milieu of the thirties and forties. They describe interior domestic scenes, large family gatherings and celebrations, vacations in Miami Beach and the Caribbean and scenes in Chicago restaurants and clubs. Although these canvases are based on black and white photographic images, I meant to capture more than a mere likeness. I intended to convey what it felt like to be present at that particular moment in time and place through a spontaneous response to the subject matter in the visual language of color, gesture and form."</p> <p>Jerome Carlin</p> <p>EDUCATION <li>Francis Parker School, Chicago</li> <li>Summer School of Pain ting of The Art Institute of Chicago</li> <li>Harvard University BA, 1949</li> <li>University of Chicago MA, 1951</li> <li>Yale Law School LL.B, 1954</li> <li>University of Chicago Ph.D. 1956</li> </p> <p>INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS <li>Smart Museum of Art, Univ. of Chicago, 1998</li> <li>Kennedy Art Center, Oakland, CA 1996</li> <li>North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993</li> <li>Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1987</li> <li>Bridge Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981</li> <li>Pence Gallery, Davis, CA 1978</li> <li>Bank of America Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1977</li> <li>Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1976</li> <li>Cynthia Snow Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1972</li></p> <p>SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS <li>George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000</li> <li>California Heritage Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999</li> <li>George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999</li> <li>Tom Reynolds Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1996</li> North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994,95</li> <li>Untitled Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992</li> <li>“Breakfast Group” Kennedy Art Center, Oakland, CA 1991</li> <li>Pro Arts Juried Annual, Oakland, CA 1990</li> <li>Wiegand Gallery, Belmont, CA 1988</li> <li>Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 1987</li> <li>Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984</li> <li>Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, 1982</li> <li>Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 1978</li> <li>Berkeley Art Co-Op, Berkeley, CA 1973-74</li> <li>S.F. Museum of modern Art Centennial Celebration Reject Show, 1971</li> <li>ACA Gallery, New York City, 1954 Mural: “History of the Chicago Medical School” Board Room, <li>Chicago Medical School, 1981</li></p> <p>Jerome Carlin’s work can be found in the collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Oakland Museum; and in private collections.</p>