Neil Jenney
Neil Jenney (* 1945 in Torrington , Connecticut , USA ; lives in New York City ) is an American contemporary painter and representative of New Realism in painting, known for his bad paintings .
life and work
Neil Jenney is largely a self-taught artist . He attended Massachusetts College of Art in 1964. In 1966, he moved to New York City, where he has lived and worked ever since.
The style of his painting was referred to as bad painting by art critic Marcia Tucker in 1978 , a description Jenney accepts as aptly.
Jenney describes his style as realistic, but in an idiosyncratic use of the word, which means: a style in which narratives find truth in a simple relationship of objects. His pictures tell little angry or funny stories. Stories that play out in the mind of the viewer when he sees them and that relate the people or objects depicted to one another.
The beginning of his painting in 1969/1967 is the period in which minimalism and photorealism emerged , to which he responded with his style. Neil Jenney has always been against photorealism in painting. Neil Jenney's work during this period was very influential: New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote " In those two years Jenney helped representational painting on a new course and set precedents for the art of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. "
In 1972 he took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Realism department with four of his pictures .
His works belong to the collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art , New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DC , des Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles .
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2015: SMS Shit must stop - Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition - Berlin
- 2013: Banners - Galerie Gmurzynska - Zurich
- 2011: Picture / Object: Newer American art from the collection - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
- 2010: Another Green World - Carriage Trade, New York City
- 2009: Five Decades Of Passion - Part Two: The Founding Of The Center, 1989–1991 - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City
- 2008: Bad Painting - good art - Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation - MUMOK, Vienna
- 2007: Lugares e materiais: colecção da fundação de Serralves - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea , Porto
- 2006: Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida - The National Gallery of Art, Washington
- 2005: Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art - for the young and the young at heart - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- NEIL JENNEY, THE BAD YEARS 1969-70, Paul Gardner, New York 2001, ISBN 1-880154-50-1
Web links
- the-artists.org
- moca-la.org
- K. Barbara Mathes Gallery in New York
- Examples of his works
- Materials by and about Neil Jenney in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jenney, Neil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torrington, Connecticut, USA |