Jennifer Wynne Reeves
All Right for Now
12 Oct 2018 - 03 Feb 2019
© Jennifer Wynne Reeves
Bittersweet, 2005
Gouache on paper
11 x 14 inches
Courtesy of BravinLee Programs.
Bittersweet, 2005
Gouache on paper
11 x 14 inches
Courtesy of BravinLee Programs.
JENNIFER WYNNE REEVES
All Right for Now
12 October 2018 - 3 February 2019
"Ms. Reeves’s own foundations, built on art and virtual community, have proved, even posthumously, to be extraordinarily sound. ”
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now opened in the Drawing Room on October 12. From the late 1990s until her too-early death from brain cancer in 2014, Jennifer Wynne Reeves (b. 1963, Royal Oak, MI) developed a reputation as an artist’s artist, garnering an intense and loyal following especially among fellow artists who appreciated her ability to load errant scribbles and globs of crusty paint with humor, narrativity, and poignant emotional affect. Her first museum show in New York, The Drawing Center exhibition is a long overdue consideration of Reeves’s unique contribution to the dialogue between representation and abstraction that has preoccupied recent art. Featuring works on paper, Masonite, and wood, as well as notebooks and text pieces (Reeves wrote copiously and had a large fan base on Facebook), the exhibition examines the power of line and color to render accessible deeply personal fears and desires.
Organized by Claire Gilman, Chief Curator, with Rosario Guiraldes, Assistant Curator.
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now is made possible by the Jennifer Wynne Reeves Trust; Isabella Hutchinson and Diego Gradowczyk; the Toby Devan Lewis Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland; Fiona and Eric Rudin; Beth Rudin DeWoody and Firooz Zahedi; David Steinhardt; Lee and Louis Reeves; Blick Art Materials, LLC; FM Brush Company; Steve Shane; Dan Lebson and Tom Wilinsky; David Reed; Bernadette Ward and Ladd Forsline, Colorfin; Elena and Holden Stein; and anonymous donors.
All Right for Now
12 October 2018 - 3 February 2019
"Ms. Reeves’s own foundations, built on art and virtual community, have proved, even posthumously, to be extraordinarily sound. ”
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now opened in the Drawing Room on October 12. From the late 1990s until her too-early death from brain cancer in 2014, Jennifer Wynne Reeves (b. 1963, Royal Oak, MI) developed a reputation as an artist’s artist, garnering an intense and loyal following especially among fellow artists who appreciated her ability to load errant scribbles and globs of crusty paint with humor, narrativity, and poignant emotional affect. Her first museum show in New York, The Drawing Center exhibition is a long overdue consideration of Reeves’s unique contribution to the dialogue between representation and abstraction that has preoccupied recent art. Featuring works on paper, Masonite, and wood, as well as notebooks and text pieces (Reeves wrote copiously and had a large fan base on Facebook), the exhibition examines the power of line and color to render accessible deeply personal fears and desires.
Organized by Claire Gilman, Chief Curator, with Rosario Guiraldes, Assistant Curator.
Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now is made possible by the Jennifer Wynne Reeves Trust; Isabella Hutchinson and Diego Gradowczyk; the Toby Devan Lewis Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland; Fiona and Eric Rudin; Beth Rudin DeWoody and Firooz Zahedi; David Steinhardt; Lee and Louis Reeves; Blick Art Materials, LLC; FM Brush Company; Steve Shane; Dan Lebson and Tom Wilinsky; David Reed; Bernadette Ward and Ladd Forsline, Colorfin; Elena and Holden Stein; and anonymous donors.