Jennie C. Jones

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Jennie C. Jones

American, born 1968
BiographyJennie C. Jones was born in Cincinnati and currently lives and works in Hudson, New York. She earned her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991 and her MFA from Rutgers University in 1996. Jones uses musical technology—including headphones and acoustic panels—as well as music and sound samples to create visual and sonic experiences in paintings and installations with a modernist sensibility. Even as she extends modernism, the artist questions that history, and who has been allowed to participate in it. In 2020, the Chicago Arts Club will present a solo exhibition of Jones’ work.

“It’s scary when you start to leave object-making behind and you start to think about your work in terms of ideas and not product . . . with music and learning about avant-garde music that was produced by African Americans . . . I started paying more attention to sound and music history and folding that in . . . it was the precedent, the permission, if you will, that I was looking for to pull in and feel comfortable with the aesthetic that was mine.”

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