Jennifer Guidi (born 1972) is an American painter.

Early life and education

Guidi enrolled at

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, where she studied painting and printmaking, She primarily painted portraits, both of herself and of friends. After receiving her BFA in 1994, Guidi earned an MFA from the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles in 2001.Gebremedhin, Thomas, “Different Strokes,” WSJ, Art Talk, September 2017, pp.136-137. Retrieved March 7, 2018Rus, Mayer, “Get into the Groove,” Architectural Digest, April 2017, pp. 72-75. Retrieved March 7, 2018

Career

In 2005, she staged her first solo exhibition at ACME. in Los Angeles, where she presented eleven intimately-scaled oil paintings on linen that drew comparisons to the paintings of Sam Francis and Fairfield Porter. At this time, Guidi was making representational paintings of landscapes, plants, and insects.Visible Light, published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, and Mueso d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce,

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, 2017. During a 2012 trip to

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, she became fascinated by the rich patterning of Moroccan rugs, specifically the intricate stitching found on their rarely seen verso sides. She then began to paint from photographs of these woven surfaces, ultimately producing a series of abstract oil and sand paintings titled ''Field Paintings'', which debuted in a solo exhibition at LAXART in 2014. Featuring rows of minuscule, tactile impressions, these paintings marked a shift from representation to abstraction, as well as the introduction of sand into Guidi's work. In 2017, Guidi presented her first solo museum exhibition at the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in

, Italy. The exhibition consisted of large-scale sand and acrylic paintings, which were painted in the seven colors of the light spectrum and occupied the frescoed interior walls of the neoclassical Italian villa. Methodically-produced meditations on light and color, Guidi's most recent paintings feature mandala-like compositions and have been compared to the works of

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, and the

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artists. Guidi's work can be found in the public collections of the

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Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the A ...

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Street (Manhattan), 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent coll ...

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, and the Rubell Family Collection.

Museum exhibitions

* 2023: “Jennifer Guidi. And so it is.,” Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California * 2022: “Jennifer Guidi. Full Moon,” Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China * 2017: “Visible Light / Luce Visible,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guidi, Jennifer 1972 births Living people 21st-century American painters 21st-century American women painters American people of Italian descent Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni