| Do You Remember Mount Vesuvius?, 2008, oil on canvas, 60 x 66 inches |
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Jennifer Riley’s paintings
are both lyrical and classic modern abstraction. The structures of her
paintings, their off-square format, the internal geometrics, and their
relationship to architecture owe their inheritance to modernist and minimalist
strategies. Exploration of the material and the immaterial through depictions
of flat and illusionistic space is at the heart of her work.
Jennifer Riley is originally from Sharon, Connecticut and now lives and
works in New York City since 2002. She received her MFA from the Milton
Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, NY. She also received
a BFA and MA degrees in Fine Arts from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
In 2000 Riley was awarded a Lee Krasner Memorial Award, and a Fellowship
Grant from Bard College (1998-2000). She also received a Massachusetts
Cultural Council Award For Painting (2004), and an Institutional Grant
from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1989-91). |
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