JENNIE C. JONES (1968 - )
Untitled (Arrangement for Sharps #1-4.)
Letterpress relief printed in red, 2010. 580x360 mm; 22x15 inches (sheet). First state proof. Signed and dated in ink and initialed, dated "2013" and dedicated "For George Wein With Gratitude -" in ink on the frame back. Printed and published by the Center for Book Arts, New York.
Provenance: gift from the artist, the collection of George T. Wein, New York (2018); the estate of George T. Wein (2021).
This print is an abstract arrangement of piano flat keys, and the first of several state proofs printed by Jennie C. Jones for her 2010 print Arrangement for Sharps #1-4.. Jones creates abstractions that investigate the intersection of music, sound and form. Calling her artistic approach "listening as a conceptual practice," Jones works in drawing, painting, sculpture and sound installation. Born in 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio, she received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991 and an MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts (1996). Jones was awarded the Studio Museum in Harlem's seventh annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize in 2013. The prize was created by George T. Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of his wife, Joyce Alexander Wein, a longtime trustee of the museum who died in 2005. Jones has recent one-person exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Arts Club of Chicago and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Her works are found in numerous institutional colllections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
All proceeds to benefit the Newport Festivals Foundations, Inc., the non-profit organization created by George Wein to carry on the legacy of his Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals.
