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WORLD-CLASS ART

JENNIE C. JONES:
DYNAMICS
Exhibition: Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics
Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth
Avenue, New York, Rotunda Levels 1 and 2, Sixth Level

EXHIBITION FEATURES TWENTY NEW WORKS FROM THE
ARTIST CREATED IN RESPONSE TO THE GUGGENHEIM’S
ARCHITECTURE
Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics is organized by Lauren
Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections. Many of the
works in the exhibition incorporate architectural
felt and acoustic panels to create what Jones calls
“active surfaces.” These materials absorb and dampen

Installation view, Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
February 4, 2021–May 2, 2022. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, 2022.

Gillian Wearing, Self-Portrait, 2000. Framed chromogenic print, 67 3/4x67 3/4x1
in. (172x172x2.5 cm). ©Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London; Tanya
Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

sound, thus affecting the acoustic properties of their
environments and impacting the viewers’ experience,
auditory and otherwise as they move through the
exhibition. Protruding from the wall, the works are both
a part of and apart from the architectural spaces they
transform.

The pieces in the show comprise multiple components
and take the form of diptychs and triptychs—
arrangements that Jones compares to chords in music.
The surfaces of these objects balance a contained
Minimalist rigor with gestural painted marks. This
interplay between traces of the artist’s hand and signs of
its erasure suggests the tension between improvisation
and controlled structure evident in avant-garde music.
Jones channels in her hybrid objects a legacy of radical

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