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Framing Nature’s Paradox
Neil Jenney & Donald Sultan, 1969–2023

October 6, 2023–February 18, 2024
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
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This exhibition brings together works by Neil Jenney and Donald Sultan that depict the natural world and human experience through unconventional materials and visual languages. Ten of Jenney’s paintings, including works from his Bad Paintings series (1969–70), each in an artist-built painted wood frame, are shown alongside ten of Sultan’s sizable depictions of natural elements, which are made using construction materials.

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Neil Jenney in
American Realism Today

September 16, 2022–January 1, 2023
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
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American Realism Today, curated by Neil Jenney, celebrates the rich tradition of realist art in America while reflecting the innovative spirit of our contemporary times. Capturing landscapes and scenes of everyday life, the exhibition includes more than fifty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-one artists working across generations. Work by Jenney is included.

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Neil Jenney
American Realist

November 2, 2018–March 17, 2019
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
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This extensive exhibition highlights nearly five decades of Neil Jenney’s work. The show, which traces the evolution of Jenney’s career and explores persistent themes in his work, features more than twenty paintings dating from 1969 to 2016. Among the works on view are examples from Jenney’s 1969–70 series Bad Paintings—purposefully rough, gestural figurative images rendered in acrylic paint on canvas.

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Literary Devices

October 11, 2014–March 15, 2015
Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
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Literary Devices, which comprises works representing text, literary themes, and books themselves, explores the tension between language and image. The exhibition features works by over forty artists, including Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Neil Jenney, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, and Cy Twombly.

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Legacy
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

June 5–September 14, 2014
San José Museum of Art, California
sjmusart.org

Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection presents a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Whitney in May 2010 by longtime museum trustee Emily Fisher Landau. The exhibition, which includes more than seventy works by thirty-eight artists, traces many of the ideas that have preoccupied artists in the United States, particularly since the 1960s. Questions about the relevance of painting in the aftermath of Minimalism, debates about representation, “culture wars,” and a revived interest in personal narratives are explored. This exhibition has traveled from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Work by Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Neil Jenney, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Legacy
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

February 10–May 1, 2011
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection presents a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Whitney in May 2010 by longtime museum trustee Emily Fisher Landau. The exhibition, which includes works by fifty-three artists, traces many of the ideas that have preoccupied artists in the United States, particularly since the 1960s. Questions about the relevance of painting in the aftermath of Minimalism, debates about representation, “culture wars,” and a revived interest in personal narratives are explored. Work by Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Neil Jenney, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol is included.