Jennifer Amadeo-Holl
Go to: Amadeo-Holl Art Gallery
My work occupies the space between abstraction and representation. Pictorial
representation is provided, but not necessarily associated with a specific
instance. I call them abstracted narratives. since all of the
components are present - the nouns, the adjectives, the context - but the verbs
are not; the narrative is not fixed but 'abstracted' - many narratives are
possible, and it is likewise possible to find no narrative.
I am interested in the building up of subjects and objects to a point that
borders on but excludes clear narrative - or the knowing and relation of a story.
The subject and context may appear to be laden with personal meaning, but yet
elicit interpretation. The inner logic of the painting must be so tight
as to almost risk defying the audience's entry, but yet seduce them. The
details may be significant yet mundane, known but unknown.
My intention is to create paintings where one might receive the satisfaction
of the concrete, but the intellectual dissatisfaction and stimuli of the abstract.
Such paintings might pose questions about description - What does representation
mean? How does the relative equality or inequality of what is represented figure
in the construction and destruction of a story? What lies beyond a story?
TRAINING:
- Swedish Royal Academy of Art 1985-87
- Harvard University BA - Magna Cum Laude Honors Degree 1982
- Visual and Environmental Studies joint with East Asian Studies
AWARDS:
- NEA/NEFA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists - Artist's Residency 1996-97
- Swedish Institute Fellowship for Arts, Letters and Research
/Artist's Residency 1985-87
- Trustman Travelling Fellowship for the Study of Art, Harvard
University1982-83
- David McCord Prize for the Creative Arts, Harvard University 1982
EXHIBITS:
REPRESENTED BY: Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SOLO SHOWS
- Colgados del Ocaso - Cultural Institute of Monte Carmelo, Santiago,
Chile -1994
- Cubisms and Not So Cubisms - Cambridge Center Gallery - 1993
- Scargo Gallery, Cape Cod - 1989
- Oden on the Veranda - Gallerie Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden - 1986
- Children in the Futurama - Harvard University / Adam's House - 1984
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS/WORK REPRESENTED BY
- The Silas-Kenyon Gallery - The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown - 1998
- The Anxiety of Influence: How Artists Relate to their Predecessors - CAA - 1996
- Juror, Jock Reynolds - Director, The Addison Gallery of American Art
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire - 1996
- Juror, Jennifer Moses, Professor of Painting, UNH
- Evidence of Survival, 300 Summer / 1 Year - FPAC Gallery, Boston - 1996
- Thirty Seven at Three Hundred - Inaugural Exhibit at the FPAC Gallery,
Boston - 1995
- The Studio Show - Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama - 1994
- Lunatics & Lovers - Bromfield Gallery, Boston - 1994
- Sex Blind: Genderal Admissions - Gallery 28, Boston - 1994
- Salon Show - Clark Gallery, Lincoln - 1993-94
- Salon Show - Ashua Irving Gallery, Boston - 1993-94
- Paper Prayers - Yezerski Gallery, Boston - 1993
- Four Artists - Ashuah-Irving Gallery, Boston - 1993
- Virtual/Actual Motion - Grove Street Gallery, Worcester - 1993
- Sert Gallery, 30th Anniversary Alumni Exhibit / Harvard Festival
for theArts - 1993
- The Open Gallery, Cambridge - 1993
- Gallery Equus, Boston - 1993
- Tiempo de Arte - Cultural Institute of Las Condes, Santiago, Chile- 1993
- Faber Birren Color Award Show - 1992
- Juror, Barbara Haskell - Curator, Dept of Painting, Whitney Museum
- Gallery Equus, Boston - 1992
- Show N Tell Gallery, San Francisco - 1991
- Schneider, Bluhm and Loeb Gallery, Chicago - 1990
- Art of the Northeast USA - Silvermine Guild Gallery - 1990
- Artists' Tables of Content - The Loading Zone, Boston - 1990
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Alumni Show - 1987
- Of Our Lives: Figures and Portraits - Boston Visual Artist's Union - 1985
- Curried backs, knees & other parts - Basement Gallery, Boston - 1984
- ARTIST'S CALL Against U.S. Intervention in Central America - Boston - 1983
FILM PROJECTS:
"Jojken: Mighty Mood Acorn" Creation and Production of animated short film:
Presented at:
- 88 Room, Allston - 1990
- Swedish Television - 1989
- Harvard Film Archive - 1988
- Stockholm Cultural Center - 1987
- Helsinki Nordic Arts Center - 1987
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ESSAYS
- Charles Giuliano, catalog essay for Colgados del Ocaso, January1994
- Gaspar Galaz C., catalog essay for Colgados del Ocaso, January1994
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
- Ricardo Bindes, "Pinturas de J. Amadeo-Holl", La Tercera ,1/23/94.
- Elisa Pérez V., "Artista De la Vida", El Mercurio ,
1/28/94.
- Mónica Villarroel, "El arte no viene de otro mundo", LaNación
, 1/17/94.
- "Chile Visto por Ojos Norteamericanos", Las Ultimas Noticias
,1/14/94.
- "Las Experiencias Pictóricas de una Norteamericana", La
Epoca ,1/5/94.
COLLECTIONS:
CORPORATE and UNIVERSITY
- AFA Konstförening, Stockholm, Sweden
- Cristal CCU, Santiago, Chile
- The Elliot Hotel, Boston, MA
- Harris and Lloyd, Cambridge, MA
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Harvey's, Boston, MA
- Holland Mark Martin, Boston, MA
- Lansförsäkringar Konstförening, Stockholm, Sweden
- London School of Economics, London, Great Britain
- OXFAM, Boston, MA
- Svenska Institut, Stockholm, Sweden
- Tudor Investments, Boston, MA
PRIVATE
- International: London, Berlin, Brussels, Stockholm,
Santiago, Madrid, Mexico City, Hong Kong
- National: New York, Boston, Princeton, Buffalo, Ann Arbor,
Lawrence, San Francisco, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Taos, Washington-DC
Go to: Amadeo-Holl Gallery
last updated 15 July 1998
amadeo@nber.org
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