New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - October 12, 2023) - Pen and Brush present their third iteration of "Now" exhibitions (The Now, Right About Now) from October 12th to December 9th, including pieces by multimedia artist Jill Viney.

Jill Viney by Alex Korolkovas

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The ongoing series from Pen and Brush means to acknowledge Contemporary Art's ever-changing landscape and introduce new artists and thoughts to viewers. "NOW: As a Consequence of Fact" builds on this evolving nature of "the now" as it pertains to today and reminds viewers of the impossibility of a finite definition of contemporary art, bringing together more than twenty works by thirteen artists that span media, scale, and time.

Jill Viney's expansive collection of work includes dozens of large-scale color theory (field) paintings, internally illuminated wall-mounted sculptures (polymorphic collaged assemblages) made of plastic and fiberglass, life-size sculptures, and intimate "environments'' chronicling the long-fought conflict between domestic responsibility and the artist's life.

All selected works at the NOW exhibit are seemingly products or consequences of people's increasingly unpredictable social, political, and environmental circumstances. The NOW exhibitions are rolling, designed to put forth new viewpoints while relinquishing the posturing of market trends and false importance often associated with commercial art endeavors by resisting fixed timelines and tackling temporality.

"Dream" 1980 by Jill Viney

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 "Woman Vacuum" 1979 by Jill Viney

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Some works, like that of Jill Viney, whose 1970s paintings and '80s dystopian works challenge the concept of "newness" as it relates to the present and holds renewed relevance today as overlooked voices are increasingly being rewritten into art history. Here, we address Viney's work for, perhaps, the first time. "What could be more contemporary than breaking down established system boundaries while highlighting the voice of a woman artist whose perspective has largely gone unheard?" asks the curator of Pen and Brush, Parker Daley Garcia.

"NOW: As a Consequence of Fact" will showcase three of Viney's pieces from her 40-year career, including "Woman Vacuum," "Dream," and "Cathedral." Viney comments on the opportunity to showcase her work in the show, "Art is a two-way street. A person makes it; then other people get involved with it. That's where art gets its meaning. If it's never seen, it hasn't had that chance to come alive."

 

"Cathedral" 1970 by Jill Viney

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Pen + Brush:
Pen + Brush is a 129-year-old nonprofit that provides a platform to showcase the work of women and non-binary artists and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of affecting real change within the marketplace. We encourage and mentor emerging professionals and aim to expose the stereotypes and misconceptions perpetuating gender-based exclusion, lack of recognition, and the devaluation of skills still experienced by artists who do not identify as cis men in the arts. All artwork is for sale; 75% of all sales go directly to the artist, and 25% comes back to feed the organization's work. NOW: As Consequence of Fact, curated by Parker Daley Garcia. Associate curator, Bird Piccininni.

Pen and Brush is located at 29 E 22nd St, New York, NY 10010

Jill Viney
Jill Viney graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and holds a Fine Arts MFA from Columbia University. In the '70s, Viney worked with color field and abstract expressionism, spurred on by Columbia professor Meyer Schapiro, who, like Rubin, helped deconstruct the art canon, effectively changing how Americans and Europeans thought about what art could be. While working on miniatures in the early 70's and late 80's, Viney also created the field paintings in 1987. From this work, Viney created collage pieces that accompanied the paintings. In the '90s, Viney joined a sculpture co-op, 14 Sculptors. By this period she began working with plastic and fiberglass. In the early 2000s, Viney began her 3D wall sculptures.

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