69. JENNY SAVILLE
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| The Mothers, 2011, oil on canvas, (270 × 220 cm) |
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Fulcrum
1999
Oil on canvas (triptych)
261.6 x 487.7 cm
1999
Oil on canvas (triptych)
261.6 x 487.7 cm
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Plan
1993 Oil on canvas 274 x 213.5 cm |
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Hybrid
1997
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 213.4
1997
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 213.4
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1970 in Cambridge,
England
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Oxford, England
Studies:
Saville
went to the Lilley and Stone School (now The Grove School Specialist Science
College) in Newark, Nottinghamshire, for her secondary education, later gaining
her degree at Glasgow School of Art (1988–1992), and was then awarded a
six-month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati.
Themes and style:
Saville
has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting. Her painterly
style has been compared to that of Lucian Freud and Rubens. Her paintings are
usually much larger than life size. They are strongly pigmented and give a
highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the
body. She sometimes adds marks onto the body, such as white "target"
rings.
Since her debut in 1992, Saville's focus has remained
on the female body, slightly deviating into subjects with "floating or
indeterminant gender," painting large scale paintings of transgender
people. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of
liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and
transgender patients.
Techniques:
Her work
is developed in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Jenny Saville, Gagosian Gallery, London
2005
Jenny Saville, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome.
2004
Large Scale Polaroids by Jenny Saville and Glen
LuchfordUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, East Gallery.
2003
Migrants, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea).
2002
Jenny Saville/Glen Luchford: Closed Contact, Gagosian
Gallery, Beverly Hills.
1999
Territories, Gagosian Gallery, New York (SoHo)
1996
Jenny Saville/Glen Luchford: A Collaboration, Pace McGill
Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2010
Crash, Gagosian Gallery, London
2009
Paint Made Flesh, memorial Art Gallery Of The University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY
Paint Made Flesh, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Paint Made Flesh, First Centre For The Visual Arts,
Nashville, TN
2007
Global Feminism, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, MA
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Jenny Saville, Dan Flavin, Kunstmuseum
Luzern, Luzern
All The More Real, Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy,
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,NY
Global feminisms remix, Booklyn museum Of Art, New York City,
NY
Summer Show, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York
City, NY
Timer 01, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum Of Art, New York City, NY
2006
POW! QPCA, Quality pictures, Portland, OR
Zuruck Zur Figur, Malerei Der Gegnwart, Kunsthalle Der
Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
Speaking with Hands, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville, The bilotti Chapel,
Museo carlo Bilotti, Rome
British Art, a post war collection, Thomas Gibson Fine Art,
London
Painting Codes, GC.AV, Galleria Comunale D’arte Contemporanea
de Monfalcone, Monfalcone
2005
The Figure In and Out of Space, Gagosian Gallery,
New York (Chelsea)
Il Male. Esercizi di Pittura Crudele,
Pallazina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin, Italy
2004
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London (Heddon)
SITE Sante Fe’s Fifth International Biennial:
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (curated by
Robert Storr), SITE Santa Fe, NM (through 2005).
Galleon and Other Stories, the Saatchi Gallery, London.
2003
50th International Biennale di Venezia:
Painting (curated by Francesco Bonami),
Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
2002
The Physical World: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
The Nude In 20th Century Art, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany.
Traveled to: Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (through
2003).
Women, Eyestorm Gallery, London.
2001
Les Voluptes (curated by E. Winner),
Borusan Centre for Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey.
Narcissus, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to
Hockney, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
Traveled to Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, CA
(through 2002).
Naked Since 1950, C&M Arts, New York.
Art, Age and Genders, Orleans House Gallery, Riverside,
Twickenham, England.
Traveled to: Usher Gallery, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England;
New Greenham Arts, Newbury, Berkshire, England (through 2004).
2000
Painting the Century: 101 Masterpieces, 1900-2000, National
Portrait Gallery, London (through 2001).
Ant Noises 2, the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Ant Noises, the Saatchi Gallery, London.
1999
Unconvention (curated by Jeremy Deller), Centre for Visual
Arts, Cardiff, Wales (through 2000).
The Nude in Contemporary Art (curated by Harry Philbrick and
Richard Klein),
The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT.
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism (curated by Lily Wei),
the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten
Island, NY.
1998
Extensions of the Body—Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff
Gallery, University of Hartford, CT.
Close Echoes—Public Bodies and Artificial Space, Kunsthalle,
Prague, Czech Republic.
The Ugly Show (curated by Moira Innes), Bracknell Arts
Center, Leeds, England.
Traveled to: Metropolitan University, Leeds, England.
1997
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection,
Royal Academy of the Arts, London.
Traveled to: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum of
Art, Brooklyn, NY (through 1999).
From the Interior, Kingston University, London.
Traveled to: Brighton City Art Gallery, England; Ferrens
Gallery, Hull, England
1996
Bad Blood, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Contemporary British Art ’96, Museum of Kalmar, Stockholm.
Sad, Gasworks, London.
Art On, Halmstadt, Sweden
1995
American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer
Collection of Contemporary British Painting (curated by Susie Allen, RCA and
Stefan Van Raay), McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland.
Traveled to: Royal College of Art, London; Yale Center for
British Art, New Haven, CT.
The Continuing Tradition: 75 Years of Painting, Glasgow
School of Art, Scotland.
1994
Young British Artists III, the Saatchi Gallery, London
1993
SSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Critics Choice, Cooling Gallery, London
1990
Contemporary ’90, Royal College of Art, London.
British Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery,
London
1989
Self Portraits, The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
In her own words:
“With the transvestite I was searching for
a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix.
The idea of floating gender that is not fixed. The transvestite I worked with
has a natural penis and false silicone breasts. Thirty or forty years ago this
body couldn’t have existed and I was looking for a kind of contemporary
architecture of the body. I wanted to paint a visual passage through gender – a
sort of gender landscape. To scale from the penis, across a stomach to the
breasts, and finally the head. I tried to make the lips and eyes be very
seductive and use directional mark-making to move your eye around the flesh.”
Representative
Galleries:
Gagosian
Saatchi
For
more Information:
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/jenny-saville