Jennie C. Jones has joined Alexander Gray Associates in New York. Jones, who is also represented by Patron Gallery in Chicago, is known for her interdisciplinary conceptual practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, sound, and installation. A faculty member at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York, the Cincinnati native often explores the relationship between sound and physical matter and draws inspiration from avant-garde African American music. “My practice mines the territory of modernism—abstraction and minimalism, experimental jazz, and seminal political and social shifts—to reveal the complex and often parallel legacies of the mid-twentieth-century’s social, cultural, and political experimentations,” Jones said in a statement. “My work brings to light the unlikely alliances that emerged between the visual arts and the imprint of jazz, highlighting the way they became and continue to exist as tangible markers of social evolution and political strivings.”
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