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Neil Jenney BIOGRAPHY
Born 1945. Known for: Abstract object-views, geometrics.
The following is excerpts from "The New York Times," March 30, 2001:. 'Neil Jenney: The Bad Years': And When He Was Bad, He Certainly Was Busy. ART REVIEW By ROBERTA SMITH. Neil Jenney: The Bad... Read full biography
The following is excerpts from "The New York Times," March 30, 2001:. 'Neil Jenney: The Bad Years': And When He Was Bad, He Certainly Was Busy. ART REVIEW By ROBERTA SMITH. Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969-70," at the Gagosian Gallery uptown, is an outstanding exhibition whose title invites a... Read full biography
The following is excerpts from "The New York Times," March 30, 2001:. 'Neil Jenney: The Bad Years': And When He Was Bad, He Certainly Was Busy. ART REVIEW By ROBERTA SMITH. Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969-70," at the Gagosian Gallery uptown, is an outstanding exhibition whose title invites a snappy retort: Both of them? Still, in those two years Mr. Jenney helped put representational painting on a new course and established precedents for the art of the 1970's, 80's and 90's in ways that have... Read full biography
The following is excerpts from "The New York Times," March 30, 2001:. 'Neil Jenney: The Bad Years': And When He Was Bad, He Certainly Was Busy. ART REVIEW By ROBERTA SMITH. Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969-70," at the Gagosian Gallery uptown, is an outstanding exhibition whose title invites a snappy retort: Both of them? Still, in those two years Mr. Jenney helped put representational painting on a new course and established precedents for the art of the 1970's, 80's and 90's in ways that have yet to be fully recognized. This show may change that. It brings together more of his "bad" paintings than ever before, including several that have never been exhibited. It is his first New York gallery show in a dozen years. Its title almost reads... Read full biography
The following is excerpts from "The New York Times," March 30, 2001:. 'Neil Jenney: The Bad Years': And When He Was Bad, He Certainly Was Busy. ART REVIEW By ROBERTA SMITH. Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969-70," at the Gagosian Gallery uptown, is an outstanding exhibition whose title invites a snappy retort: Both of them? Still, in those two years Mr. Jenney helped put representational painting on a new course and established precedents for the art of the 1970's, 80's and 90's in ways that have yet to be fully recognized. This show may change that. It brings together more of his "bad" paintings than ever before, including several that have never been exhibited. It is his first New York gallery show in a dozen years. Its title almost reads as a deflationary dig at art-show pretension, a joke made on purpose. After all, the paintings are jokes that work really w... Read full biography
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The following is excerpts from "The New York Times," March 30, 2001:
'Neil Jenney: The Bad Years': And When He Was Bad, He Certainly Was Busy
ART REVIEW By ROBERTA SMITH
Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969-70," at the Gagosian Gallery uptown, is an outstanding exhibition whose title invites a snappy retort: Both of them? Still, in those two years Mr. Jenney helped put representational painting on a new course and established precedents for the art of the 1970's, 80's and 90's in ways that have yet to be fully recognized.
This show may change that. It brings together more of his "bad" paintings than ever before, including several that have never been exhibited. It is his first New York gallery show in a dozen years.
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