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12/2/2004

Bill Jensen

Danese Gallery, New York

Bill Jensen
Duo Duo and Drunken Brush Drawings
February 13 - March 13, 2004

Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works on paper by Bill Jensen opening Friday, February 13 and continuing through Saturday, March 13.

The exhibition includes work from two distinct but related series, the Duo Duos and the Drunken Brushes. As with most of his work over the past few years, the titles reflect Jensen's deep interest in contemporary Chinese poetry.

These complex works on paper were made near Siena, where Jensen has spent many summers. The Duo Duos incorporate a medium he developed in Italy - dry pigment hand-mixed with egg and oil tempera - which generates within the work a vividly expressive range of form and color, reminiscent of the light and landscape of the Tuscan countryside. Further, Jensen has always been inspired by the immediacy of Abstract Expressionism and its use of gesture and process to convey emotional and spiritual content.

The Drunken Brush drawings, in contrast, employ black ink and a white wash on gessoed paper, recalling Sumi ink drawings and Chinese landscape painting. With a simple Chinese character as his point of departure, he then 'improvises and manipulates the ideogram into another structural form.'

At the very core of Jensen's work is a profound response to nature: the drawings 'with their weathered surfaces, spectral presence and tangled calligraphy, encapsulate - sometimes brutishly, at other times with a biting elegance - the terrible beauty of the elements.'

Educated at the University of Minnesota, Bill Jensen has exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others. Jensen lives and works in New York.
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Bill Jensen
Fei Fei Drawings
February 15 - March 16, 2002

Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works on paper by Bill Jensen opening Friday, February 15 and continuing through Saturday, March 16.

During the summer of 2001, in a village southeast of Siena, Jensen created a diverse and remarkable body of work in response to the light and landscape of Italy. He mixed egg yolk and oil tempera with dry pigment and applied it to handmade paper. Jensen's intimate relationship with his materials led to vigorously worked surfaces and a broad, expressive range of form and color.

Among Jensen's sources of inspiration are early Renaissance painters (especially Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca), Chinese landscape painting and contemporary Chinese poetry, specifically the Fei Fei, which, in its reaction against nostalgia and romantic notions of beauty and idealism, roughly corresponds to America's beat generation of poets. Within the history of American art, Jensen has long admired the work of Albert Pinkham Ryder, of whom he once commented 'Ryder's light feels discovered and born within the paint itself.' Central to Jensen's work is its association to Abstract Expressionism - to gesture, immediacy, and the process of painting itself as a means to convey emotional and spiritual content.

Educated at the University of Minnesota, Bill Jensen has exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world for over thirty years. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and others. Jensen lives and works in New York.

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