Inquiry:
Five Painting Practices |
Jenny Hager |
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Jenny Hager |
STATEMENT
 By
utilizing abstracted imagery that remains open and
slightly ambiguous, I seek to bypass or delay immediate
categorization through language structures. Through
the centralization of negation and reinterpretation,
repainting and redrawing, and a sense of internalized
place, I seek to sustain an associative dialogue
within the work that enables me to find a space that
embodies layers of internal/external, invented/ real,
and microcosm/macrocosm. Interest to me as of recently
is an investigation of something (object, space,
event) that is larger than oneself and difficult
to place within the every day. The interest to me
is the confrontation of something so outside of one’s
normal experience; the enormity, fluidity, chaos,
and stillness, of a moment like this… what
happens in the center of this experience, as well
as the periphery.
I
have been working with a symbol system that I feel
is universal, but also highly personal. Ambiguity
is important within the work, as I find this symbol
system to be fluid and I feel that the work takes
on different references for different people. I seek
to inject subtexts through formal elements such as
pressure, asymmetric balance and lack of “finish”.
EDUCATION
1999 Masters
of Fine Arts, Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1993 Bachelor
of Arts, Studio Art, Knox College, Galesburg, IL.
1994-1996 Post Baccalaureate, New York Studio School,
New York, NY.
1993 Residency,
January 1993, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006 Olendorf
Residency Sholarship, Professional Artist in Residence,
Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
Career
Opportunity Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation
1999-2000 Research and Travel Grant, Knox College
1999 Recipient
of Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Teaching
Award, College of General Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
1997-1999 GSFA Chairperson’s Merit Grant, University
of Pennsylvania
1995-1996 Seligmon/von Simpson and Brown Scholarships,
New York Studio School
1993 Scholarship
to the Vermont Studio Center awarded by Knox College
Departmental Chairperson. Knox College
1992-1993 Al Young Scholarship Awards for excellence,
awarded by faculty, Knox College
EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Inquiry: Five Painting Practices",
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“All
well that begins well and has no end”, 80 WSE
Gallery, New York, NY.
2007 Pharmaka, “Small Wonders 2”, Los
Angeles, CA.
Tarfest,
Los Angeles, CA.
“Art,
August, and AC”, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA.
LA
Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA.
“Furious!
The Angry Show”, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery,
Atlanta, GA.
Part
of Phyllis Green’s project for Pillow Talk,
curated by Mery Lynn McCorkle, Ruth Bachofner Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA.
Primo
Piano LivinGallery, “Effimero Meraviglioso”,
Lecce, Italy.
2006 Pharmaka, “Small Wonders”, Los Angeles,
CA.
Perlow-Stevens
Gallery, Columbia, MO.
2005 Cue Foundation, Joan Mitchell Grant Recipient
Exhibition, New York, NY.
Riverside
Art Museum, “Off the Wall”, Riverside,
CA.
Chop
Shop, Los Angeles, CA.
Kraft
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Santa
Monica College Faculty Exhibition, 2002 – present.
2004 Arena Division 1, in conjunction with “Santa
Monica Originals”, Santa Monica, CA.
Monster.com,
Superbowl Commercial, Los Angeles, CA.
Edgemar
Center for the Art, Benefit for Third World Education,
Santa Monica, CA.
Ohm
Salon and Gallery, Venice, CA.
LA
Farm, West Los Angeles, CA.
2003 New Abstraction, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE.
2002 Virtual Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA.
2000 Young Talent Exhibition, Washington Art Association,
Washington Depot, CT.
“Sex,
Death, and the Subconscious”, Solo Exhibition,
Ford Gallery, Galesburg, IL.
1999 Cohen, Pederson, and Fox Gallery, New York City,
NY.
“Next
Exit”, Group Exhibition, Esther Klein Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA.
Large
Print Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA.
Solo
Exhibition, Blauhaus Independent Gallery, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
MFA
Thesis Exhibition, Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA.
1998 Folio Print Exhibition, Burrison Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA.
Tyler
University Selected Prints Exhibition, Tyler University,
Philadelphia, PA.
1997 MFA Exhibition, Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia,
PA.
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2002 – present Professor, Drawing I and II,
Design, Painting, Santa Monica College, Los Angeles,
CA.
2001-2004 Professor,
Art History; Renaissance through Contemporary, Art
Appreciation, Drawing. West Los Angeles College,
Los Angeles, CA.
1999-2000 Professor,
Drawing I, II, and III, Painting I and II, and Printmaking,
Knox College, Galesburg, IL.
1999 Printing
Instructor, College of General Studies, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1998-1999 Curator,
MFA Exhibitions, Meyerson Gallery. University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
SLIDE REGISTRIES
Drawing Center Slide Registry, New York City, NY.
COLLECTIONS
Riverside Museum of Art Permanent Collection
Nick Cave, Performance Artist
Roger and Mary Lou Licht
Rita Taggart
PUBLICATIONS
Vox, Columbia Missouri |
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