Exhibition
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
02/17/21-06/06/21
Conversations · Exhibition-Related
Jennie C. Jones in Conversation with Gary Carrion-Murayari
Cover Image:
Jennie C. Jones, Score for Sustained Blackness Set 3, 2016. Acrylic paint, collage on paper. Set of 10: each 20 × 16 in (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and PATRON, Chicago. Installation views, “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” 2021. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
Join us for a conversation with artist Jennie C. Jones in dialogue with Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator at the New Museum.
In conjunction with the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” the New Museum is honored to host this conversation series and highlight the practices of artists participating in this exhibition.
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Jennie C. Jones (b. 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio) lives and works in Hudson, New York. Her work considers the relationship between music, histories of modernism, and Blackness. She consistently engages the possibilities of sound through various media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, and audio collage. In Score for Sustained Blackness Set 3 (2016), currently on view in “Grief and Grievance,” Jones created reimagined musical compositions with abstract formal structures, raising pertinent questions about duration, persistence, and resonance, both aesthetically and politically in America today.
She received a a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts in 1996 from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Among her numerous awards, Jones is the recipient of the 2016 Robert Rauschenberg Award presented by the Foundation for Contemporary Art, a Joan Mitchell Award in 2013, and The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Prize in 2012.
Jones’s work has been exhibited at major national and international art institutions including solo presentations at Prospect 5 (upcoming), New Orleans, LA (2021); Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2020); Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2020); Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT (2018); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (2015); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2013); and The Kitchen, New York, NY (2011), among many others. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institute’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and many others.
Please note, this public program was previously scheduled for April 29 and has been rescheduled for Monday, April 26 at 2 PM EDT.
Sponsors
Lead support for “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” is provided by the Ford Foundation.
Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Agnes Gund.
New Museum Digital Initiatives are generously supported by Hermine and David B. Heller.
Generous ongoing support is provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.
Support for Education and Public Engagement programs is provided, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Support of artist participation is provided by Laura Skoler.
Additional support for education and community programs is provided by the American Chai Trust.
A full list of support for “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” can be viewed here.
