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Opening Reception | Neil Jenney: Idealism Is Unavoidable

Thursday, May 2, 2024, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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Balancing idealism and realism, Jenney's landscape paintings are highly stylized and rendered with a careful attention to detail. Begun in 1971, the Good Paintings are differentiated from Jenney's previous body of work, which he designated as Bad Paintings (1969-70) after curator Marcia Tucker's 1978 New Museum exhibition "Bad" Painting, which included his work. Painted in acrylic in a loose, gestural style, the Bad Paintings represent relationships between people and things, while upending preconceptions of connoisseurship and "good taste." The Good Paintings are instead exacting studies of nature in oil paint on wooden panels.

Jenney's Good Paintings impart the experience of observing the North American landscape at close range, in contrast with the expansive vistas of untamed wilderness typical of the historical Hudson River School. While describing the natural world, many of the works also remind us that the environment is never far removed from human intervention. Jenney's handmade black wooden frames are integral to these works, which he regards as "painted sculpture." Playing off the classical conception of a painting as a window into fictive space, the frames create an architectural foreground, asserting their status as physical objects. The works' mediated nature is further emphasized by the inclusion of titles stenciled in uppercase serif lettering.

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