Neil Jenney Exhibition
Barbara Mathes Gallery
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For over forty years, Neil Jenney has been one of the art world’s great contrarians. Defiant of trends and movements, he has consistently remained committed to his distinctive artistic principles. In the late 1960s, when many artists and critics had left painting for dead, Jenney exhumed gestural brushwork and figuration in his “Bad Paintings” – blunt representational pictures that employed a willfully slapdash technique. When a younger generation of artists brought expressive painting back into vogue in the mid-seventies, Jenney reigned in his brushwork, resulting in the so-called “Good Paintings.” Unaided by photography, these paintings declare the importance of the human hand in an increasingly technologized world. In his current work, Jenney takes individual environmental qualities – sky, vegetation, water – as his subjects. Inverting the conventions of landscape painting, he thrusts his images into the foreground, depicting nature as a strange obstruction rather than the traditional inviting vista.
This marks the artist’s first show in New York since 2002.
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Schedule
from November 06, 2008 to January 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-11-06 from 18:00 to 20:00