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JS Cartier won admission to the Ecole nationale des Arts appliqués in Paris (1950) but left after four months to emigrate to the US (1951). He settled first in Boston, then in New York where he had his first show of abstract paintings (1952) before being drafted in the US Army. Following his tour of duty (1952-54), Cartier went to study drawing, painting and lithography at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford (1957-60) on the "GI Bill" and he exhibited there often. 

Back in New York (1960), Cartier followed the abstract-expressionist school and was strongly influenced by Pollock, Kline, de Kooning and Tworkov but also Newman, Still and Rothko. Cartier also began to photograph at this time and he recorded the destruction of Lower Manhattan on color slides, all of which were subsequently stolen (1965); this work marked the beginning of the series of "X" paintings Pulitzer prizewinner Carolyn Kizer mentions in "Midnight Was My Cry". At the end of the 60's, Cartier was using auto lacquers on plexiglas modules and shaped canvases and the "white colors" of his sprayed paintings became more and more minimal. Beginning in the 70's, he experimented with liquid acrylics running down the top edge of the canvas, creating a "waterfall" effect; this was followed by the first paintings of the "Windows" series, followed in 1987-88 by an experiment incorporating painting, newspaper pages and photographs. 

In 1994, JS Cartier moved to France. That summer, he began a series of large works on canvas, returning to the themes and symbols which had always inspired him: windows, grids, the "X" symbol, pyramids and clouds, worked into conflicting complexity. Lately, Cartier has been working on triptych and quadriptych supports, with a limited range of colors. At the same time, Cartier pursued his photographic career.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS : 
(* one-person shows)
Caravan Gallery New York, NY 1952
Panoras Gallery New York, NY 1956
New York City Center New York, NY 1956
Galerie des Arts New York, NY 1956
St.Hilda's College Oxford, UK 1956
Ashmolean Museum Oxford, UK 1959
Bear Lane Gallery Oxford, UK 1959
Lincoln College Oxford, UK 1959
Bear Lane Gallery Oxford, UK 1960
Molton Gallery London, UK 1961
Salon d'Automne Paris, France 1962
Bertuch Gallery New York, NY 1964
New York Six Gallery New York, NY 1964
Scott Galleries Seattle, WN, USA 1964
New York University New York, NY 1968
Gallery Fifty-Five Brooklyn, NY 1968
Centre culturel Amér. Paris, France 1971
Musée Municipal Brest, France 1971
Théâtre Municipal Caen, France 1972
Musée Fabre Montpellier, France 1973
Palais des Congrès Perpignan, France 1973
Musée des Beaux-Arts Orange, France 1973
The American Library Brussels, Belgium 1973
Descartes Huis Amsterdam, Netherlands 1973-4
Limited Art Editions * New York, NY 1984
Centre d'Art contemporain Fontenoy, France 1996
Collégiale Saint-Pierre Avallon, France 1996
Salles du Marché Couvert Sens, France 1996
Salles de l'Ancienne Mairie Villeneuve s/Yonne, France 1996
Hôtel-Dieu Tonnerre, France 1996
Ligny Romanesque Church Ligny-le-Châtel, France 1996
3rd Painting & Sculpture Biennal Auxerre, France 1997
COLLECTIONS (partial listing) :
Jean Bruller, Paris; Dr. Perez-Tamayo, Mexico; Stanley Moss, New York; Carolyn Kizer, San Francisco & Paris; Benjamin Ichinose, San Francisco; Timothy Knox, Boston; Lord Dacre & Lady Alexandra Haig, London; Karl von Frieling & Patricia Warburg Cliff, New York; Charles I. Levene, Cambridge, UK; Yvette Mallet, Paris; Suzanne Jacot, New York; Jacques & Alexandra Bouhet, Paris & New York; Pierrette Fleutiaux, Paris; Alain Wagneur, Paris; Thérèse Heymans, Brussels, Belgium; Mathilde Bellaigue, Paris; Lady Honey, Oxford, UK; Pierre & Yvette Bourget, Paris; Lord Kerr, Oxford, UK; Hoare's Bank, London; The ITEL Corp., San Francisco, Somerville College, Oxford, UK, Lady Taylor, Oxford, UK; the estates of Thomas Merton and Norman Cousins; A & C Nayer, Brussels; G Farre & N Duval, Paris...
GUEST CURATORSHIPS :
"Maîtres-verriers", French Cultural Services, New York, NY 1970
"Early Foujita Drawings", French Cultural Services, NYC 1971
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (partial listing) :
Robert Rauschenberg Change Grant 1984
Lee Krasner/Jackson Pollock Foundation Grant 1986
TELEVISION :
Belgian Television (New York) 1975
Interview/Artistes Contemporains Icaunais (France) 1996
RADIO :
France-Culture (J Chaigneau) Paris 1972
DAILIES :

France-Amérique (NY)

1956

New York Herald Tribune (NY)

1956

The New York Post (NY)

1956

The Oxford Times (Oxford)

1960

Daily Telegraph (London)

1960

The Manchester Guardian (Manchester)

1960

Cherwell (Oxford)

1960

Oxford Mail (Oxford)

1960

Sunday News (NY)/David McLane

1962

Le Journal de l'Amateur d'Art (Paris)/P Imbourg

1962

International Herald Tribune (Paris)

1971

La Voix du Nord (Lille, France)

1971 

L'Express (Paris)

1971

L'Est Républicain (Nancy, France)/R Vuille

1972

Herald Tribune (Paris)

1972

Midi Libre (Montpellier, France)/G Verune

1972 

La Dépêche du Midi (Toulouse, France)

1972

L'Indépendant (Perpignan, France)/J-C M.

1973 

Sud-Ouest (Bordeaux, France)

1973

The Brussels Times (Brussels)

1973

The Bulletin (Brussels)

1973

L'Yonne Républicaine (Auxerre, France)

1996

PERIODICALS :

ArtNews (NY)

1956

The Oxford Magazine (Oxford)/Jean Simpson

1960 

Isis (Oxford)/G.Gowrie

1960

Isis (Oxford)/Simon Mitchell

1960

ArtNews (NY)/Jill Johnston

1964

Arts Review (London)/James Heard

1972

House Beautiful (NY)

1974

Les Nouvelles Littéraires (Paris)/M Cadieu

1975 

L'Express (Paris)

1977

L'Yonne Magazine

1996

CATALOGUES : 

"Three American Painters" US Cultural Center, Paris 

1971

Bassler, Cartier, Wagner (US Embassy, London)

1972

"Six American Painters" Traveling exhibition, US Cultural Services (several French cities) 

1973

"Six American Painters" (Brussels)

1973

Artistes Contemporains Icaunais (Auxerre, France)

1996

Pontigny-Ligny-le-Châtel exhibition (Ligny, France) 

1996

PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS : 

"Isis" (Oxford) Illustrations 

1959-60

"Poetry Northwest" (Seattle, WN). Cover & illust. 

1961-62

in Carolyn Kizer "Midnight Was My Cry" Doubleday (NY)
"Streets of Pearl and Gold" (Poem, pp.39-43) 

1965

in "Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs" (p.567) E. Benezit (Paris) 

1976

in Pierrette Fleutiaux "Histoire du Tableau" Julliard (Paris) (couverture & photo) 

1977

in "Différents Aspects du Roman français contemporain", Centre culturel Valéry Larbaud, Vichy (pp.14, 15, 17) 

1979

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