Jennie C. Jones
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Biography
Jennie C. Jones (b.1968) was born in Cincinnati, OH and lives and works in Hudson, NY. Her interdisciplinary practice seeks to engage viewers visually and aurally. Drawing on painting, sculpture, sound, and installation, Jones’s conceptual works reflect on the legacy of modernism and minimalism. Their unconventional materials and reductive compositions highlight the perception of sound within the visual arts.
After graduating from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1996 with her MFA, Jones created a series of drawings and collages that directly reference music and listening technologies. Featuring exactingly rendered line drawings of speakers and cables and found image collages of sound systems, these works led Jones to begin to break down the components of audio devices. Elaborating on these drawings, in the 2000s, Jones began to use acoustic ephemera (cables, noise canceling instruments, CD jewel cases, etc.) in her artwork—what she has referred to as the “physical residue of music.” Transforming these prosaic materials into elegantly spare sculptures and installations, looping cables so that they became graphic lines, she adopted the conceit of sculpture as drawing in space. At the same time, these works capitalize on the potential of repurposed sound equipment to suggest audibility through its absence. In contrast, her most recent large-scale sculptures are mechanisms to produce sound—their forms capable of being played by the wind.
Further articulating the relationship between sound and physical matter, Jones’s ongoing series of Acoustic Paintings incorporate noise-absorbing acoustic panels. The minimalist works juxtapose these panels with solid and two-tone expanses of color, and draw on imagery that recalls the geometry of musical notation, including bars, crescendos, and measures. Developing alternative ways to illustrate sonic experiences, other paintings from the series boast narrow strips of pigment applied along the edges of their canvases—an effect that causes their compositions to resonate with an echoed glow of color. Meanwhile, more recent Acoustic Paintings interact with the architecture of the spaces they inhabit, escaping the confines of the wall and becoming sculptural as they engage with the floor. Encouraging viewers to anticipate sound even in the quietest of environments, Jones states that the acoustic panels in the paintings are always “active.” As she explains, “I always say they’re active even when there’s no sound in the room; they are affecting the subtlest of sounds in the space—dampening and absorbing even the human voice.” Reinforcing this connection, the Acoustic Paintings frequently use musical devices—e.g. the tritone—as organizing principles for their structure. Seamlessly integrating visual practices with auditory ones, the works underscore the connection between minimalism and music, recovering the legacy of the Black avant-garde.
In support of this recovery, for more than a decade, Jones has created sound pieces that microsample and distort disparate recordings. The resulting audio collages, which take Black avant-garde sonic movements as their source material, continue the artist’s project of challenging the dominant narrative of modernism by foregrounding African American cultural histories. Expanding on the conceptual ideologies that shaped these histories, Jones’s newest works combine sound with large-scale installations and sculpture. These expansive pieces challenge the vernacular of modernism, emphasizing the artist’s interest in, in her own words, “the merger of art history and music history . . . [and] exploring the abstract languages they construct.” Advocating for a holistic approach to the twentieth-century canon, these works and others by Jones ultimately bring to light the systemic inequalities that shape who and what is seen and heard.
In 2024, Jones was announced as the artist selected for the final chapter of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden Commission, producing her first multi-work outdoor sculptural installation for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden in 2025. Previous solo exhibitions include Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022); Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure, The Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2020); Compilation, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2016); Absorb/Diffuse, The Kitchen, New York, NY (2013); Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2013); Counterpoint, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2011); and RED, BIRD, BLUE, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA (2009), among others. Her work has been included in many group exhibitions, including In With The New..., Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA (2022); Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York (2021); Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans, LA (2020); Ground/work, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2020); Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2020); The Shape of Shape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2019); Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, traveled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (2017); The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2015), traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2016); Outside the Lines; Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2014); and Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2012), traveled to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, CA (2013). Jones’s work is in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, IL; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Heinz Award (2024); Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2017); Rose Art Museum, Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award (2017); Robert Rauschenberg Award (2016); Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2013); The Studio Museum in Harlem, Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2012); and William H. Johnson Prize (2008).
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Exhibitions
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Jennie C. Jones
Tonal Center March 7 - April 20, 2024 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates, New York presents Jennie C. Jones: Tonal Center, the artist’s third solo exhibition with the Gallery. Turning to the geometry of musical notation, hushed colors often activated...Read more -
"A sheet of paper casts a shadow."
September 16 - October 30, 2022 GermantownAlexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents 'A sheet of paper casts a shadow.” This group exhibition features a selection of works on paper by six Gallery artists, Ricardo Brey, Luis Camnitzer,...Read more -
Jennie C. Jones
New Compositions September 9 - October 23, 2021 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates, New York presented Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions , an exhibition of 2021 paintings and drawings. In these works, Jones continues to explore the perception of...Read more -
Subliminal Horizons: Part 2
August 20 - October 3, 2021 GermantownSubliminal Horizons: Part 2 Germantown August 21 – October 3, 2021 Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Subliminal Horizon, the second iteration of an exhibition curated by Alvin Hall . Subliminal...Read more -
Subliminal Horizons: Part 1
July 2 - August 15, 2021 GermantownAlexander Gray Associates presened Subliminal Horizons: Part 1, an exhibition curated by Alvin Hall as an open-ended survey of Black, indigenous, brown, and Asian artists living and working in the...Read more -
Subliminal Horizons
July 1 - August 13, 2021 New YorkSubliminal Horizons New York July 1 – August 14, 2021 Alexander Gray Associates presented Subliminal Horizons, an exhibition curated by Alvin Hall as an open-ended survey of Black, indigenous, brown,...Read more -
Between the Lines
September 11 - October 17, 2020 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates, New York presented Between the Lines, a group exhibition of recent and historic sculptures and works on paper by Luis Camnitzer, Jennie C. Jones, Hassan Sharif, Valeska...Read more -
Jennie C. Jones
Passing Tones and Broken Chords August 14 - November 8, 2020 GermantownAlexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Jennie C. Jones’ first exhibition with the Gallery, Passing Tones and Broken Chords. The show features new 2020 Acoustic Panel Paintings that further expand on...Read more
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Other Exhibitions
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No Forms
Hill Art Foundation May 12 - July 15, 2022Harmony Hammond, Jennie C. Jones, and Ruby Sky Stiler included in the group exhibition No Forms curated by Margot Norton at Hill Art Foundation in New York, NY. The institution's... -
Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum February 4 - May 2, 2022Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, a one-person exhibition of new and recent work by the interdisciplinary artist, opens today, February 4, 2022, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.... -
Ground/work
Clark Art Institute October 6, 2020 - October 17, 2021Jennie C. Jones included in Ground/work, curated by Molly Epstein and Abigail Ross Goodman, a group exhibition at The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. The institute's press release follows: The... -
Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure
Arts Club of Chicago March 19 - September 26, 2020Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure March 19 – September 26, 2020 Arts Club of Chicago, IL The institution's press release follows: Lingering at the intersection of music theory, painting, and... -
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Phillips Collection February 29 - May 24, 2020Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition February 29 - May 24, 2020 Phillips Collection Washington, D.C. The institution's press release follows: Riffs and Relations: African... -
Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art
Baltimore Museum of Art September 29, 2019 - January 19, 2020Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art September 29, 2019 – January 19, 2020 Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD The institution's press release follows: Generations: A History of Black... -
Jennie C. Jones: Compilation
Contemporary Art Museum Houston December 12, 2015 - March 27, 2016Jennie C. Jones: Compilation December 12, 2015 – March 27, 2016 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Houston, TX The institution's press release follows: Through exhaustive research and imaginative talent, Jennie C.... -
Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden May 16 - October 27, 2013Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance May 16 – October 27, 2013 Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. The institution's press release follows: Music, art history, and African-American culture... -
Absorb / Diffuse
The Kitchen September 7 - October 29, 2011
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Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
BNY Mellon, Pittsburg, PA
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
John and Susan Horseman Foundation for American Art, St. Louis, MO
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, IL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Videos
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Jennie C. Jones on "Dynamics"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum March 18, 2022'Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics' at the Guggenheim Museum features a new body of work produced by the artist that responds to the museum’s iconic architecture...Watch -
Jennie C. Jones on Acoustic Panel Paintings
Alexander Gray Associates July 28, 2020Jennie C. Jones discusses her ongoing body of Acoustic Panel Paintings for Alexander Gray Associates.Watch -
12 Minutes with Jennie C. Jones
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden July 22, 2013Hirshhorn associate curator Evelyn Hankins speaks with Jennie C. Jones on June 28, 2013.Watch
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News / Events
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The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones
The Metropolitan Museum of Art April 15–October 19, 2025The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be on view from April 15–October 19, 2025. The Metropolitan Museum...Read more -
Bethany Collins and Jennie C. Jones
Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at Hammer Museum February 9–May 4, 2025Bethany Collins and Jennie C. Jones is included in the group exhibition, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at Hammer Museum , Los Angeles, on view from...Read more -
Jennie C. Jones Named Recipient of the 29th Heinz Awards for the Arts
September 17, 2024Alexander Gray Associates congratulates Jennie C. Jones on receiving the 29th Heinz Award for the Arts. The Heinz Family Foundation's press release follows: Jennie C....Read more -
Luis Camnitzer and Jennie C. Jones
Every Sound Is a Shape of Time, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) August 8, 2024–March 16, 2025Luis Camnitzer and Jennie C. Jones are included in a group exhibition, Every Sound Is a Shape of Time, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)...Read more -
Jennie C. Jones
If not now, when? Collection of Max Vorst at Museum Beelden aan Zee April 12–September 8, 2024Jennie C. Jones is included in a group exhibition If not now, when? Collection of Max Vorst at Museum Beelden aan Zee in Hague, Netherlands,...Read more -
Jennie C. Jones
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting curated by Gary Garrels at Gagosian June 1–August 25, 2023Jennie C. Jones is included in the group exhibition To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting curated by Gary Garrels at Gagosian in London, UK
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Bethany Collins and Jennie C. Jones
Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound at International Print Center New York October 8, 2022–January 21, 2023Bethany Collins and Jennie C. Jones included in the group exhibition Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print at the International Print Center New York.
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Bethany Collins and Jennie C. Jones
Monochrome Multitudes at Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023Bathany Collins and Jennie C. Jones included in the group exhibition Monochrome Multitudes at the Smart Museum of Art at The University of Chicago in Chicago, IL.
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Jennie C. Jones
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection at Hirshhorn Museum August 2, 2022–September 4, 2023Jennie C. Jones included in the group exhibition Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C..
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Jennie C. Jones: Nocturnes
Patron Gallery June 4 – July 16, 2022Jennie C. Jones's one-person exhibition Jennie C. Jones: Nocturnes at Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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Harmony Hammond and Jennie C. Jones
No Forms Curated by Margot Norton at Hill Art Foundation May 12–July 15, 2022Harmony Hammond and Jennie C. Jones included in the group exhibition No Forms curated by Margot Norton at Hill Art Foundation in New York.
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Jennie C. Jones
Shifting the Silence at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art April 9–September 5, 2022Jennie C. Jones included in the group exhibition Shifting the Silence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Jennie C. Jones
In Conversation with Fred Moten at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum March 24, 2022Jennie C. Jones and poet Fred Moten will discuss "Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics," followed by Moten's reading of his experimental text "The Red Sheaves" and a musical performance by musicians Brandon Lopez and Cecilia Lopez.
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Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, and Lorraine O'Grady
Us Them We | Race, Ethnicity, Identity at Worcester Art Museum February 19–June 19, 2022The Worcester Art Museum's group exhibition, Us Them We | Race, Ethnicity, Identity, featuring works by Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, and Lorraine O’Grady will have a discussion led by Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and specialist in visual culture studies, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ph.D. as a part of Master Series Third Thursday programs.
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Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture: Jennie C. Jones
Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture February 23, 2022Jennie C. Jones delivers the Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture
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Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum February 4–May 2, 2022Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, a one-person exhibition of new and recent work by the interdisciplinary artist, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Jennie C. Jones
Walk the Line at Center for Maine Contemporary Art January 29–May 8, 2022Jennie C. Jones included in Walk the Line a group exhibition curated by Timothy Peterson at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME.
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Jennie C. Jones
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University January 28–May 14, 2022Jennie C. Jones's group exhibition Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music at the Moody Center of Arts at Rice University in Houston, TX.
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Jennie C. Jones
Beneath Tongues at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York January 21–April 17, 2022Jennie C. Jones included in Beneath Tongues, a group exhibition curated by Sable Elyse Smith at the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York, NY.
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Articles / Reviews
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JENNIE C. JONES AND GALA PORRAS-KIM WIN 2024 HEINZ AWARDS
ArtforumSeptember 18, 2024 Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim have been announced as the 2024 recipients of the Heinz Award for the Arts... -
Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim receive $250,000 Heinz Awards
The Art NewspaperSeptember 17, 2024 The American artists Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim were revealed as the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for... -
Jennie C. Jones by Lauren Haynes
BOMB MagazineSeptember 16, 2024 Jennie C. Jones is a sonic and visual artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, audio compositions, and installation and... -
The Black Female Artists Redefining Minimalism
The New York Times Style MagazineMay 10, 2024 A new generation of painters and sculptors is finding creative freedom by making rigorously pared-down work. JENNIE C. JONES was... -
Looking Ahead: Jennie C. Jones is Taking on Metropolitan Museum of Art's Rooftop Garden Commission in 2025
Culture TypeMarch 16, 2024 THE ROOF GARDEN of The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers majestic, panoramic views of the New York City skyline. Each... -
Erin Christovale's Five Favorite Works from Frieze Viewing Room
FriezeMay 18, 2023 Melvin Edwards 's works on paper from the 70’s are a rare, visual treat. This untitled work gives insight into... -
Recombinations
Chicago ReaderJuly 21, 2022 Editor’s note: Coco Picard’s comic for this issue examines artists Jennie C. Jones and Norman Teague on the occasion of... -
Jennie C. Jones with Ann C. Collins
The Brooklyn RailApril 1, 2022 Perception comes gradually, when the mind is quieted enough for awareness to seep in, and even then, it is never... -
‘God Forbid We Should Talk About Joy’: Jennie C. Jones on Dodging Pressure to Signify Blackness in Her Art, and Finding Her Own Language
Artnet NewsMarch 16, 2022 A visual artist interested in sound, Jennie C. Jones is a composer in both senses of the word. With their... -
Jennie C. Jones and the Music of Chance
HyperallergicMarch 1, 2022 At the Guggenheim museum there is a small gallery, the first space open to visitors who begin at the ground... -
Podcast: Jennie C. Jones' Dynamics Exhibition at the Guggenheim
WNYC New York Public RadioFebruary 28, 2022 A new exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum uses sound and the unique architecture of the Guggenheim to create an engaging... -
The Art Angle Podcast: Jennie C. Jones on Why You Should Listen to Her Paintings
Artnet NewsFebruary 25, 2022 Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets... -
The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles 2022, From Stunning Stone Piles to Menacing Thank You’s
ARTnewsFebruary 17, 2022 With gallery after gallery announcing plans to open in Los Angeles, the international art scene is closely watching what’s taking... -
Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune
The New York TimesFebruary 10, 2022 A few weeks ago, the artist Jennie C. Jones made her way to the top of the spiral in the... -
Jennie C. Jones to Present 2022 Wolgin Lecture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
HyperallergicFebruary 9, 2022 The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University is pleased to welcome Jennie C. Jones as its sixth... -
Congratulations Jennie C. Jones, on view at the Guggenheim!
ArtbookFebruary 5, 2022 '8 Track' (2007) is reproduced from Jennie C. Jones: Compilation, a book that we are delighted to revisit this... -
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Jennie C. Jones ‘Dynamics’
World Art FoundationsFebruary 4, 2022 Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics addresses the objecthood of painting, sound as ephemeral content, and the graphic forms of music notation.... -
The Prospect 5 Triennial Reflects Contemporary Culture’s Hunger for Widespread Yet Specific Historical Reckoning
Artnet NewsJanuary 19, 2022 Also tapping this energy is the other clear highlight of “Yesterday We Said Tomorrow” for me: the conjoined display, in... -
Moody Kicks Off 2022 With Incredible New Slate of Programs
HoustoniaJanuary 5, 2022 Founded in 2017 as a site for artistic experimentation , the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University is... -
2021 Was . . . ? These Works of Art Help Make Sense of It.
Texas MonthlyDecember 21, 2021 Even in these last weeks of 2021, the year still has an indeterminate feeling about it. In many ways, it... -
At the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’s Latest Benefit Exhibition, 106 Artists Unite for a Common Cause
VogueDecember 10, 2021 The Foundation for Contemporary Arts was established nearly 60 years ago, by the artists Jasper Johns and John Cage. From... -
Dressed in Custom Dior, Lorde Gave a Rousing Performance at the Guggenheim International Gala
VogueNovember 18, 2021 Emotions swirled through the Guggenheim’s spiral structure at last night’s gala honoring artists Etel Adnan, Jennie C. Jones, Cecilia Vicuña,... -
Between sound and physical matter
Art BaselNovember 5, 2021 Sonic and visual artist Jennie C. Jones shares insight into her upcoming exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, opening... -
Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions
The Brooklyn RailOctober 20, 2021 Move in close to Soft, End, Measure (2021), and see what you hear. Constructing a large square from panels of... -
Jennie C. Jones
4ColumnsOctober 8, 2021 On its face, the title of Jennie C. Jones’s exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates, New Compositions , is decidedly innocuous—the... -
Jennie C. Jones’s Geometric Jazz
FriezeOctober 7, 2021 In September 1921, Aleksandr Rodchenko and four other Russian constructivist painters held an exhibition in Moscow, titled '5×5=25', in which... -
Ground/work at The Clark
The Berkshire EagleJuly 28, 2021 The Clark’s “Ground/work” exhibit shows sculptures that were made uniquely for the Clark’s outdoor environment, with a range of works... -
Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice
The New York TimesFebruary 18, 2021 In the matter of racial justice, the United States has built up terrible karma over the centuries. And in the... -
A breath of fresh air: The Clark opens its first outdoor exhibition
The Art NewspaperNovember 13, 2020 After several years of development and a months-long postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown,... -
The Clark Art Institute Turns Its 140-Acre Meadow into an Exhibition Site
MetropolisNovember 6, 2020 Since opening in 1955, the Clark Art Institute has been blossoming across the sprawling acres of Williamstown, Massachusetts. After the... -
Natural high: escape to the Clark Art Institute’s first-ever outdoor exhibition
Wallpaper*October 28, 2020 With indoor activities largely restricted in the United States, what better way to make the most of sprawling grounds than... -
The Clark breaks new ground with first outdoor sculpture show
The Williams RecordOctober 28, 2020 Currently situated – or hidden – throughout the landscape of the Clark’s 140 acres of forest and field are the... -
Friday Five With Adam Rolston of INC Architecture & Design
Design MilkOctober 23, 2020 Adam Rolston is the Creative Director and Managing Partner at INC Architecture & Design , a multidisciplinary architecture and design... -
Between the Lines
The Brooklyn RailOctober 23, 2020 “When I read between the lines the paper stares back at me telling that I haven’t wondered enough,” reads the... -
Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords
The Brooklyn RailSeptember 17, 2020 “The idea of lack can be turned on its head in order to be perceived as pure potential and opportunity.... -
Between the Lines
ArtlandSeptember 10, 2020 Jennie C. Jones anchors the presentation with two 2016 groupings of drawings from her ongoing series Score for Sustained Blackness.... -
After Months of Online Viewing Rooms, Outdoor Art Exhibitions Fill the Void
W MagazineSeptember 1, 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art may have reopened this past weekend—to the delight of New Yorkers who have made it... -
Jennie C. Jones by Jared Quinton
Bomb MagazineJuly 29, 2020 The work of Jennie C. Jones rewards sustained contemplation. Her paintings, sculptures, and acoustic installations coax viewers to consider the... -
HAUSER & WIRTH UNVEILS ARTLAB, PACE FURLOUGHS WORKERS, AND MORE
ArtforumApril 10, 2020 Jennie C. Jones has joined Alexander Gray Associates in New York. Jones, who is also represented by Patron Gallery in... -
Alexander Gray Associates Now Represents Jennie C. Jones
ARTnewsApril 2, 2020 Jennie C. Jones , who is known for her work in various mediums that consider the connection between minimal forms... -
Specific Objects, Enduring Influence: Architects, Designers, and Artists on Donald Judd
Surface MagazineMarch 20, 2020 In 1978, a group of 8th-grade students from Marfa Junior School visited Donald Judd at his home and studio in... -
How Arthur Lewis Built a Dynamic Collection of Black Art
ArtsyMarch 16, 2020 The front door of Arthur Lewis’s Los Angeles home opens to a room organized like an exhibition space. The marks... -
When a Mentor Said Tear Down Your Collection and Start Over, They Did
The New York TimesFebruary 12, 2020 LOS ANGELES — Many contemporary art collectors have an adviser. Arthur Lewis is lucky enough to have a mentor, instead.... -
Editors’ Picks: 20 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
artnet NewsJanuary 20, 2020 5. “Sounds Lasting and Leaving ” at Luxembourg & Dayan Among the many little notes that Duchamp stuffed into his... -
Culture Talk: Collector Pamela Joyner on the Artists Defining the History and Shaping the Future of Black Abstract Art
Culture TypeJanuary 19, 2020 SINCE 1999, PAMELA J. JOYNER and Alfred J. Giuffrida have focused their collecting on abstract art by artists of African... -
Reframing Modernism at the New MoMA
The New YorkerNovember 19, 2019 Prunella Clough, a superbly weird British modernist who died in 1999, at the age of eighty, was fond of a... -
Art by black artists forces a new look at art history in a must-see show at the Smart Museum
Chicago TribuneApril 22, 2019 Why do collectors collect? “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection,” a knockout show at the Smart Museum of Art, offers... -
“Out of Easy Reach”
ArtforumSeptember 5, 2018 For the ambitious exhibition “Out of Easy Reach,” Allison Glenn curated works by twenty-four artists at Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum,... -
Critics' Picks: Jennie C. Jones
ArtforumMarch 5, 2018 Equal parts spare and sumptuous, Jennie C. Jones’s exhibition is a celebration of return, in more ways than one. It’s... -
Jennie C. Jones, Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
ArtforumNovember 5, 2016 Gray dominates Jennie C. Jones’s paintings, seven of which comprised her exhibition “Amplitude.” Cool and crisp, it is the color... -
Critcs' Pick: Jennie C. Jones
ArtforumFebruary 5, 2016 Amplification, absorption, reverberation, tone, displacement, diffusion—any encounter with the work of Jennie C. Jones demands that a viewer repeatedly wrestle... -
Jennie C. Jones, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
ArtforumOctober 5, 2013 Jennie C. Jones makes abstract work using paint, sound, and audio equipment such as acoustic panels and bass traps. Her... -
Artists on Artists: Jennie C. Jones
Bomb MagazineJanuary 5, 2012 Jennie C. Jones’s art reflects on the cultures of sound and music in a visual context. In recent years, she... -
The Artists: Jennie C. Jones
OakazineOctober 17, 2010 'I love the Art World, I have all their albums.' Jennie C. Jones is witty as fuck. In her studio... -
Jennie C. Jones: ‘Electric’
The New York TimesJuly 30, 2010 With extravagant refinement, Jennie C. Jones has orchestrated an affecting, Minimalist theater of memory, obsolescence and uncertainty about the future.... -
Critics' Pick: Jennie C. Jones
ArtforumJuly 21, 2009 “Red, Bird, Blue” is a wonderful fusion of the various passions of Brooklyn-based artist Jennie C. Jones, intelligently installed across...
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