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One Day at a Time
Manny Farber and Termite Art

October 14, 2018–March 11, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
www.moca.org

Inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (1962), One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art featured approximately thirty artists and more than one hundred works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and sound dating from the 1950s to the present. Work by Jennifer Guidi and Jonas Wood was included.

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Generations Part 1
Female Artists in Dialogue

February 22–June 30, 2018
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
www.sammlung-goetz.de

Sammlung Goetz celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2018 with a three-part exhibition dedicated to artistic creations by women. On display were nearly two hundred works by more than forty artists in an intergenerational dialogue. Generations Part 1 focused on the appropriation of ordinary materials and practices rooted in advertising and design. Work by Ellen Gallagher, Katharina Grosse, and Jennifer Guidi was included.

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Jennifer Guidi
Visible Light/Luce Visibile

July 1–September 24, 2017
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy
www.museidigenova.it

Visible Light/Luce Visibile, at Villa Croce, was the first solo museum exhibition by Jennifer Guidi. Painted in spectral tones evoking the colors of the rainbow, the new body of work on view continued the artist’s investigation of light, color, and energy. To create these paintings, Guidi used a system of underpainting in which she first applied a thick layer of sand to the surface of the canvas; while this was still wet, she made marks with a dowel in controlled and repetitive movements, often adding sand and paint along the edges of the divots.

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Unpacking
The Marciano Collection

May 25–September 16, 2017
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
marcianoartfoundation.org

Unpacking: The Marciano Collection was the debut presentation of the collection’s holdings organized by Philipp Kaiser. The title and theme of the show were derived from Walter Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking My Library,” in which he discusses the chaotic potentiality inherent in unpacking and recontextualizing one’s collection. Work by Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Sterling Ruby, Cindy Sherman, Franz West, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool was included.

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No Man’s Land
Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection

September 30, 2016–January 8, 2017
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
nmwa.org

Drawing from the Rubell Family Collection, the paintings and sculptural hybrids in N0 Man’s Land demonstrate the expressive and technical range of work by a generationally, aesthetically, and politically diverse group of contemporary women artists. Collectively, they populate “no man’s land”—an open, liberated, and adaptable creative space. The presentation focuses on the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture as a way to highlight how women artists have pushed and redefined the boundaries of such categories. Work by Cecily Brown, Jennifer Guidi, and Mary Weatherford is included.

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Jennifer Guidi in
The Afghan Carpet Project

June 13–September 27, 2015
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
hammer.ucla.edu

The Afghan Carpet Project features six carpets designed by Los Angeles–based contemporary artists and handmade by weavers in Afghanistan. The exhibition is the culmination of a project that began with the artists traveling to visit weavers in Kabul and Bamiyan in March 2014. The trip provided the artists with insight into the craft and the production process, as well as the living and working conditions for the weavers. Following the trip, each artist created an original design for her carpet. Work by Jennifer Guidi is included.

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Jennifer Guidi
Field Paintings

May 17–June 28, 2014
LAXART, Los Angeles
archive.laxart.org

This exhibition features Jennifer Guidi’s new series of large-scale abstract oil paintings inspired by the rich patterning of traditional Moroccan rugs. Upon returning from a trip to Morocco, Guidi brought with her a collection of these rugs and began to photograph their intricate woven surfaces. Painting from these photographs led her to focus in on the delicate stitching that form the structure of each pattern.