Jenice Heo is an American artist and art director. In 2010, she won the 52nd
Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
The Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package has been presented since 1995 to an album's art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion ...
for the
Neil Young Archives
The Neil Young Archives is a longtime project by singer-songwriter Neil Young. It started as a series of archival releases featuring previously released as well as unreleased studio and live recordings. It eventually developed into a website featur ...
Volume 1. She was nominated in the same category in 2015 for the vinyl box set of
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fu ...
's ''
A Letter Home''.
Life and art
Heo was born in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
, but she was raised in
Texas
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and studied at the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
. She started her career in
Los Angeles
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as an Art Director in music packaging at
Warner Bros. Records. With Jan Sheets, she created the artwork for
Monster in My Pocket
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The focus is on monsters and fantastical and legendary creat ...
. Then she held jobs at
A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distr ...
and
Maverick Records
Maverick was an American entertainment company founded in 1992 by Madonna, Frederick DeMann, and Veronica "Ronnie" Dashev, and formerly owned and operated by Warner Music Group. It included a record label (Maverick Records), a film production ...
. She worked with recording artists including
Conor Oberst
Conor Mullen Oberst (born February 15, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, the Faint (previously named Norman Bailer), Commander Ve ...
,
Bright Eyes,
Jim James
James Edward Olliges Jr. (born April 27, 1978), professionally known as Jim James or Yim Yames, is an American vocalist, guitarist, producer, and primary songwriter of the rock band My Morning Jacket. He has also released several solo albums. ...
,
My Morning Jacket
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,
Devendra Banhart,
Jack White
John Anthony White (; born July 9, 1975), commonly known as Jack White, is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo the White Stripes. White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success and is widely c ...
,
Kurt Vile
Kurt Samuel Vile (born January 3, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is known for his solo work and as the former lead guitarist of rock band the War on Drugs. Both in the studio and during liv ...
and
Matt Corby
Matthew John Corby (born 7 November 1990) is an Australian singer-songwriter. He achieved his commercial breakthrough with his fourth EP, '' Into the Flame'' (2011), which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart, and by April 2012, was c ...
. Heo and her husband
Gary Burden have collaborated on the art direction and design of
album cover
An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to either the printed paperboard covers typically used to package sets of and 78-r ...
s as creative partners for many years.
When Heo collaborated with Young on the design of his
Neil Young Archives
The Neil Young Archives is a longtime project by singer-songwriter Neil Young. It started as a series of archival releases featuring previously released as well as unreleased studio and live recordings. It eventually developed into a website featur ...
Vol. I Box Set in 2010, Young introduced her to the work of
assemblage artist
Wallace Berman, who would prove influential to her "NEIL" painting on the Vol. I box.
The art team that worked on the Archives - Young, Heo and Gary Burden - won the 52nd
Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
The Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package has been presented since 1995 to an album's art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion ...
in 2010. It was the first Grammy not only for the couple, but also for Neil Young. Heo worked with Young on several more albums.
After winning the Grammy, Heo began working on what would eventually become known as the Neil Young Series. Comprising thirteen oil paintings on
found objects and
mixed media
In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed.
Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art inc ...
assemblages, the series was originally inspired by a work of art by Heo. It was a small assemblage called "NEIL Letters" which appeared on the top panel of the Archives box set.
The series, containing personal photographs of Young's life and found objects pointing to the themes of his music, was hailed as "an intimate look into the mind of the famed musician."
Young himself described the paintings as "a series of painted assemblages reflecting the spirit of different times and stages of my musical journey."
Awards
References
External links
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A list of Heo's art direction and design work
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20th-century American painters
21st-century American painters
American people of Korean descent
American art directors
Painters from Texas
Album-cover and concert-poster artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)