Neil Jenney

Neil Jenney is a self-taught artiste born on November 6, 1945 in Torrington, Connecticut. He attended Massachusetts College of Art in 1964. In 1966 he moved to New York City where he currently resides.

His painting style was described by the art critic Marcia Tucker in 1978 as Bad Painting, a tab which he has embraced. Jenney describes his style as realism, but it is an idiosyncratic use of the word on his part, meaning: a style in which narrative truths are found in the easy relationships of objects. His body of fake during 1969–1970, which is the era for which he was first known, was a greeting to minimalism and photo-realism. The work's impact was large for such a brief period: according to New York Times art critic Roberta Smith "in those two years Mr. Jenney helped put representational painting upon a new course and normal precedents for the art of the 1970s, 80s and 90s."

Often, Jenney's be in of this become old depicted pairs of objects which had evocative cause and effect relationships (such as a maxim and a fragment of cut wood, as are depicted in the 1969 piece Sawn and Saw.) In an April 15, 2001 review in the New York Observer of his action of conduct yourself from the late 60s and ahead of time 70s at Gagosian Gallery, Mario Naves said that the paintings:

His painting Here and There (1969), which depicts a white fence dividing a sports ground of drippy, green brushstrokes, was in the 2004 exhibition The Undiscovered Country at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. His accomplish is in many museums including the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. He currently shows behind the Barbara Mathes Gallery. His painting "Meltdown Morning" is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.