Jeannette Montgomery Barron: Some Quiet

Garden Cabin
September 19 - November 20, 2025

Exhibition Catalogue

“[The drawings] relate to my other work in terms of simplicity, calm, and meditation, especially the mirrors.”

Jeannette Montgomery Barron

"Rather than reading as austere still lifes, the photographs of these anonymous, everyday objects become 'portraits,' heads on slim necks, sometimes confronting us, sometimes turning away. They seem introspective, self-contained, as if Montgomery Barron had captured her sitters unawares."

Karen Wilkin

"One’s first impression [of Montgomery Barron's drawings] is of a quiet and meditative practice... Their unaffectedness leaves nowhere to hide, and they are poignant in that way. This is their most compelling quality - their existence as an intimate and immediate record of the unique movements of Barron’s hand."

KK Kozik

"[Drawing] turned into a practice that very much calmed me down. It made feel a certain way—peaceful–and then I couldn’t stop drawing."

Jeannette Montgomery Barron