Craven Allen Gallery

GEORGE JENNE

Biography

George Jenne makes sculpture, video and installation to affirm his belief in the pleasure of repulsion. He pairs that which is sick and deranged with humor, joy and beauty as an allusion to our need to leaven our faults and self loathing with compassion.

“For me to work from behind the lens of a video camera, is to tap the pathological side of creativity – to impose control through obsessive scrutiny. High Definition Video, with its bald faced detail and buttery frame rate suggests a reality beyond the perception of human vision. It syphons greedily, when used in extreme close up and offers, out the other end, the disorientation and awe of unrealized surfaces. In this sense, video is predisposed to fetish and in my work, each intimate image is a myopic surrogate for expansive places and boundless phenomena. Capture. Shoot. Zoom in. Zoom out. The act of gathering these images is obsessive, aggressive and penetrating.”

Jenne has exhibited at numerous venues including Exit Art, PS 122, The Center on Contemporary Art, Jack the Pelican Presents, and Frosch & Portmann. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Art in America, Time Out New York and the Washington Post. He is a former faculty member of the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He splits his time between New York and North Carolina.

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BORN
1973  Richmond, VA

ACADEMIC

2011-present
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Teaching Fellow
2005-2011
Faculty – Rhode Island School of Design – Providence, RI
1995
BFA Film/Video – Rhode Island School of Design – Providence, RI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013   “Deep Fake” – Frosch & Portmann – New York, NY
2012   “Love in the Ruins” – Lump Gallery – Raleigh, NC
“Down in the Den” – in collaboration with Damian Stamer – Freight + Volume – NYC
2011   “CUT” – Frosch & Portmann – New York, NY
2010    “Don’t Look Now” – Civilian Art Projects – Washington, DC
2007    ”Diamond Jubilee” – Branch Gallery – Durham, NC
2006    ”Snipe Hunt” – Jack the Pelican Presents – Brooklyn, NY
2004    “Behind the Rainbow Soccer Field” – Valley Forge – Brooklyn, NY
2002    “The Five Cent Fallen Colossus” – Craven Allen Gallery – Durham, NC
2001    “Faculty Farm” – in collaboration with Harrison Haynes – Space 1026 – Philadelphia, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS/FAIRS

2012     PULSE NY – Frosch & Portmann – New York, NY
SCOPE NY – Civilian Art Projects – Washington, DC
2011     “Pan’s Pipes” – collaboration with Ryan Hill and Erick Jackson – Civilian Art Projects
Washington, DC
RISD Faculty Biennial – Chase Center Galleries at the RISD Museum – Providence, RI
2010     “SANTA” – Frosch & Portmann – New York, NY
SCOPE NY – Civilian Art Projects – New York, NY
2009     “Hellzapoppin” – PS122 Gallery – New York, NY
“Curly Q” – Jack the Pelican Presents – Brooklyn, NY
“One Night Stand” – Envoy Enterprises – New York, NY
“Old School” – Jack the Pelican Presents – Brooklyn, NY
RISD Faculty Biennial – Chase Center Galleries at the RISD Museum – Providence, RI
2008      “Brainwave” – Exit Art – New York, NY
2007       “Behind the Wall” – Civilian Art Projects – Washington, DC
SCOPE – Basel – Jack the Pelican Presents – Basel, Switzerland
SCOPE – Hamptons – Jack the Pelican Presents – Easthampton, NY
2006       ”Grendel” – Jack the Pelican Presents – Miami, FL
SCOPE -Miami – Jack the Pelican Presents – Miami, FL
Aqua Art Fair – Branch Gallery – Miami, FL
“Converter” – Riviera Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
“Pleased to meet you.” – Branch Gallery – Durham, NC
2005       SCOPE Miami – Jack The Pelican Presents – Miami, FL
Art Cologne – Branch Gallery – Cologne, Germany
“RISD Faculty Biennial” – Rhode Island School of Design Museum – Providence, RI
“Twenty-eight Days” – Wendy Cooper Gallery – Chicago, IL
2004       “Northwest Annual” – curated by Ken Lum, Center on Contemporary Art – Seattle, WA
“RISD Biennial” – curated by Shamim Momin, Claire Oliver Fine Art – New York, NY
“Transformers” – Transformer – Washington, DC
Transformer Auction exhibition – Fusebox – Washington, DC
“Anima Botanica” – Branch Gallery – Carborro, NC
2003       “Anima Botanica”– Branch New York – New York, NY
“The Out-Of-Towners” – Transformer – Washington, DC
2000      “The Last Supper” – Inshallah Gallery – Los Angeles, CA