Jeff Carpenter, artist


	Jeff Carpenter - resume Click link to download Adobe PDF file ABOUT THE ARTIST Jeff Carpenter was born in 1953 in Greenville, Delaware. He studied with the painter Tom Bostelle near home and then went to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a BFA Film, in 1976. His thesis project, a short animated film called Rapid Eye Movements played the Cannes, Berlin, Telluride and New York film festivals. It won the Lille Festival and the Special Jury Award at the Zagreb Festival. His first gallery exhibition was in 1974 at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. It was an installation using the many color separation transparencies of a map, hanging from the ceiling for the viewer to walk around, and through, the different layers of the image. He continues to explore these same themes of transparency, narrative and multiplicity of images in his large studio paintings and photographs. His work has been shown at P.S.1, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, and the Centre Pompidou.
	SOLO SHOWS
	2007	Cherry & Webb Gallery, Fall River, MA
	2006	Pandion Gallery, Fishers Island, NY
	2004	A & C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI
	2002	DFN Gallery, New York
	2000	DFN Gallery, New York
	1998	Galerie Berliner Bank, Berlin McLauchlen Gallery, Southampton, NY
	1995	Riverside Studios Gallery, London
	1992	Robert Homma / William Lipton, New York The Kace Gallery, Kennet Square, PA
	1991	Broome Street Gallery, New York Carspecken / Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
	1990	Real Art, New York
	1989	Real Art, New York Red Zone / 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York
	1988	40 Worth, New York
	GROUP SHOWS
	2007	Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Pamela Clark Cochrane, juror Art Kudos International, online, Peter Trippi, juror 10th National - Baker Arts Center, Liberal, KS; Stephen C. Wicks, juror Open Painting 2007 - Providence Art Club, Providence, RI; Judith Tannenbaum, juror Members Juried 2007 - Concord Art Association, Concord, MA; Jennifer Witham Roff, juror Solstice Phase II - Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA; Kelly Bennet, juror
	2006	AT40ON40 - Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Fall River, MA; Judith Tannenbaum, juror Boxing Day - Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA Sonoma Plein Air 2006 - Sonoma, CA Telluride Plein Air 2006 - Telluride, CO
	2005	Director's Choice - Clark Galllery, Lincoln, MA Annual Juried Exhibition - Blackstone River Gallery, Woonsocket, RI Inaugural Exhibition - Alloy Gallery, Newport, RI Inaugural Exhibition - Firehouse Gallery, Sausalito, CA Sonoma Plein Air 2005 - Sonoma, CA Telluride Plein Air 2005 - Telluride, CO
	2004	Blue, Cambridge Art Association - Boston, MA New London Open, New London, CT Delaware Art Museum/Sales & Rental Gallery – Wilmington, DE Sonoma Plein Air 2004 - Sonoma, CA Telluride Plein Air 2004 - Telluride, CO
	2003	The Burbs DFN Gallery - New York< NY Sonoma Plein Air Festival - Sonoma, CA A & C Fine Art - East Greenwich, RI Delaware Art Museum/Sales & Rental Gallery - Wilmington, DE Affordable Art Fair - New York, NY
	2002	Robert Kidd Gallery - Detroit Galerie Petra Lange - Berlin Tiffany Peay Gallery - New York Sonoma Plein Air Festival - Sonoma, CA "Works on Paper" - DFN Gallery, New York
	2001	DFN Gallery - New York Galerie Sties - Kronberg, Germany
	2000	Somerville Manning Gallery - Wilmington, DE DFN Gallery - New York
	1999	Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver - Mark Sink, Curator - Denver, Colorado "400" at GAle GAtes et al. - Mike Weiss, Curator - New York DFN Gallery "Road Show", New York Sagpond Vineyards, Sagaponack, New York
	1998	d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center - Waqas Wajahat, Curator - New York McKinsey Headquarters, London
	1997	GAle GAtes et al., New York Blue Gallery, London
	1996	Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf Coventry Gallery, London
	1995	Hete Hunermann Galerie, Dusseldorf Eastway Open Studios, London
	1994	Phoenix Gallery - Diane Waldman, Curator - New York Bridgewater / Lustberg Gallery, New York
	1993	Sommerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE
	1992	National Juried Fine Arts Competition - Dianne Vanderlip, Curator - Fort Worth, TX National Juried Show, Art Center of New Jersey - Cynthia Goodman, Curator Annual Juried Exhibition, The Salmagundi Club, New York Delaware Arts Museum Sales Gallery, Wilmington, DE "14 Stations of the Cross" French Embassy, New York Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver, CO Sommerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE
	1991	Annual Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York Payton-Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
	1990	Body Parts, DIFFA, New York Pandion Gallery, Fishers Island, NY Wycoff Gallery, Aspen, CO
	1989	Jamison / Thomas Gallery, New York Delaware Museum of Art Sales Gallery, Wilmington, DE
	1982	Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	1981	Centre Pompidou, Paris
	1978	Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
	1974	Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
	PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
	2001	Paintings for the Sheraton Reston Hotel Reston, Virginia
	1995	Backdrop for "Abundance" by Beth Henley, Riverside Studios, London
	1992	Portrait Judge Schwartz, First Circuit Courthouse, Federal Portrait Committee, DE
	GRANTS & FISCAL SCHOLARSHIP
	2006	Fall River Cutural Council Grant
	99-06	New York Foundation for the Arts
	1976	AFI, Independent Filmmaker Grant
	AWARDS
	Third Place, ArtKudos 2007; Peter Trippi, juror First Place, Bellevue Film Festival 1978 First Place, Lille Film Competition 1977 Special Jury Award, Zagreb Animation Festival 1977
	FILM FESTIVALS
	Berlin, Cannes, Lille, New York, Telluride, Zagreb
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	2002	Die Welt, Oct. 11, "Ostküste trifft Westküste" by Maxmilian Keller
	2000/01	New American Painting - Mid Atlantic issue
	1991	Voir, Dec., "L'Icone Absolut" by Kristina Stewart Connoisseur, Dec., "Cross Purposes" by Richard Johnson Wilmington News Journal, May 12, "Films Find Place In His Palette" by Gary Mullinax
	1990	Art and Antiques, May, "Absolut Carpenter" Absolut Artists of the 90's
	1989	HG, Oct., "Bright Light in the Big City"
	1983	R.I.S.D. At Work, by Thomas Paulter, R.I. School of Design Press
	COLLECTIONS
	The Church Pension Group Davis, Polk, Wardwell DeCordova Museum Corporate Exhibitions Program August Joest Latham & Watkins Lowes Theaters, New York, NY Jay McInerney Susan Merritt Nicole Miller Spriggs, Hollingsworth United States Circuit Court U. S. Embassy, Dakar
	ARTIST'S STATEMENT
	If you daydream a memory of a wonderful day it's rarely just one snapshot, it's many images - the full panorama, the light in her eyes, the wind in the leaves - all layered one on top of each other. To summon them is like peeling through the layers of an onion. The real pleasure in conjuring up the memory is not so much in any one bit, as it is in flickering through the layers. My work is concerned with that effect, to combine images in a way that evokes the subconscious process. Sometimes it's a simple combination of images, side-by side, or sometimes it's a superimposition of images such as double-exposure or pentimento - the faint traces of a map or poetry ghosting through the image. Sometimes it's multiple images in sequence, such as the lenticular prints. In essence, it sets the mind to switching from one image to the next, back and forth, a mental flickering that is slightly beyond our control, that makes us the projector in an abstract movie.

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