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Jennifer Guidi (born 1972) is an American painter.[1]
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Early life and education
editGuidi enrolled at Boston University, where she studied painting and printmaking, She primarily painted portraits, both of herself and of friends. After receiving her BFA in 1994, Guidi earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles in 2001.[2][3]
Career
editIn 2005, she staged her first solo exhibition at ACME. in Los Angeles, where she presented eleven intimately-scaled oil paintings on linen that drew comparisons to the paintings of Sam Francis and Fairfield Porter.[4] At this time, Guidi was making representational paintings of landscapes, plants, and insects.[5]
During a 2012 trip to Marrakech, she became fascinated by the rich patterning of Moroccan rugs, specifically the intricate stitching found on their rarely seen verso sides.[3] She then began to paint from photographs of these woven surfaces, ultimately producing a series of abstract oil and sand paintings titled Field Paintings, which debuted in a solo exhibition at LAXART in 2014.[6] Featuring rows of minuscule, tactile impressions, these paintings marked a shift from representation to abstraction, as well as the introduction of sand into Guidi's work.
In 2017, Guidi presented her first solo museum exhibition at the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, Italy. The exhibition consisted of large-scale sand and acrylic paintings, which were painted in the seven colors of the light spectrum and occupied the frescoed interior walls of the neoclassical Italian villa.[5] Methodically-produced meditations on light and color, Guidi's most recent paintings feature mandala-like compositions and have been compared to the works of Agnes Martin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the Light and Space artists.[2][3]
Guidi's work can be found in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, and the Rubell Family Collection.[7][8]
Museum exhibitions
edit- 2023: “Jennifer Guidi. And so it is.,” Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California[9]
- 2022: “Jennifer Guidi. Full Moon,” Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China[10]
- 2017: “Visible Light / Luce Visible,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy[11]
References
edit- ^ Hamer, Katy Diamond, “Sand Storm: Sifting through the grit of Jennifer Guidi’s soulful abstractions,” Cultured, February/March 2017, pp. 182-185. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
- ^ a b Gebremedhin, Thomas, “Different Strokes,” WSJ, Art Talk, September 2017, pp.136-137. Retrieved March 7, 2018
- ^ a b c Rus, Mayer, “Get into the Groove,” Architectural Digest, April 2017, pp. 72-75. Retrieved March 7, 2018
- ^ Knight, Christopher, “The ordinary in colorful splendor,” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2005, p. E25. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ^ a b Visible Light, published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, and Mueso d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, 2017.
- ^ Korek, Bettina, “SERIOUSLY GO: Jennifer Guidi at LAXART,” HuffingtonPost.com, The Blog, June 16, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ^ "About the Exhibition". rfc.museum.
- ^ "The Collection".
- ^ "Jennifer Guidi "Jennifer Guidi. And so it is." | Orange County Museum of Art". ocma.art. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03.
- ^ "Jennifer Guidi "Jennifer Guidi. Full Moon" | Long Museum, West Bund". thelongmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03.
- ^ "Jennifer Guidi "Visible Light / Luce Visibile" | Museo Villa Croce". www.villacroce.org. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03.