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    Jennie C. Jones

    Deep Glissando, 2021
    Architectural felt, acoustic panel, and acrylic on canvas
    48 x 48 x 5 in (121.9 x 121.9 x 12.7 cm)
    JCJ110

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    In Jennie C. Jones's new Acoustic Panel Paintings, she continues to explore the perception of sound within the visual arts while experimenting with a new material, architectural felt. Like the...
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    In Jennie C. Jones's new Acoustic Panel Paintings, she continues to explore the perception of sound within the visual arts while experimenting with a new material, architectural felt. Like the noise-absorbing foam panels of her earlier paintings, this substrate also has sound dampening properties. Composed of layered felt and acoustic panels, Deep Glissando (2021) subverts the flat formalism of Minimalist painting. Transforming this reductive geometry into something far more expansive and immersive, the work physically and aurally extends outwards to actively engage viewers. Encouraging viewers to anticipate the presence of sound, Jones states that this and other similar 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.”


    Seamlessly integrating visual practices with auditory ones, the titles of Jones’s paintings often directly reference musical terminology. Deep Glissando references the glide between pitches. Illustrating this slide, the work’s stacked gray and black planes suggest slippage—as though the heavy panels are about to shift. Ultimately challenging minimalist conventions through unexpected gestures, Jones’s work deconstructs established modernist visual languages to make space for meaning. Her recent paintings like Deep Glissando continue her project of mining the interrelated histories of art and music to advocate for a more expansive understanding of the twentieth-century canon.

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    Exhibitions

    2021: Jennie C. Jones: New Compositions, Alexander Gray Associates, New York

    Literature

    Bourland, Ian. "Jennie C. Jones's Geometric Jazz." Frieze, October 7, 2021.

    Griffin, Tim. “Jennie C. Jones.” 4Columns, October 8, 2021.

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