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Artworks
Jennie C. Jones
Fractured Crescendo, Red Rest, 2020Acoustic absorber panel and acrylic on canvas in two parts36 x 49 1/2 x 2 in overall (91.4 x 125.7 x 5.1 cm overall)
36 x 24 x 2 in each (91.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm each)JCJ014Further images
Jennie C. Jones’ Jones’ minimalist Acoustic Panel Paintings incorporate noise-absorbing acoustic panels into their compositions, encouraging viewers to anticipate sound even in the quietest of environments. Indeed, the artists states...Jennie C. Jones’ Jones’ minimalist Acoustic Panel Paintings incorporate noise-absorbing acoustic panels into their compositions, encouraging viewers to anticipate sound even in the quietest of environments. Indeed, the artists states that the acoustic panels in the paintings are always “active.” “I always say they’re active even when there’s no sound in the room,” she explains. “They are affecting the subtlest of sounds in the space—dampening and absorbing even the human voice.”
In recent paintings in this series, Jones continues to expand her research into the sonic, illustrating aural experiences visually through innovative approaches to geometry, color, and materials. In Fractured Crescendo, Red Rest (2020) Jones adopts a new approaches to color. Foregrounding what she characterizes as “hot” red acrylic, the canvases boast a diagonal line of bright red paint across two acoustic panels. As the artist explains, “[t]the subtle lines inside the picture plane rather than at the edges are a way of almost painting the shadows of form, which is again a shift toward amplifying objecthood.”
Exhibitions
2020: Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, NYLiterature
Furlong, Adriana. "Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords." The Brooklyn Rail, September 20201of 2
