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 there 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. His first gallery exhibition was in 1974 at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. 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
	2010	St. Botolph Club, Boston MA
	2007	Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA 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
	2011	Summer Show, Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE
	2010	Double Vision, Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
	2009	All Media Juried Exhibition, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Mary Dondero, juror Opening Exhibition, Isherwood Gallery, Newport, RI
	2008	EA Gallery, Port Chester, NY Cherry & Webb Gallery, Fall River, MA
	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 Salon Show 2007, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
	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
	2011	Puffin Foundation
	2008	Fall River Cultural Council Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Rhode Island Foundation Cedar Hill Foundation
	2006	Fall River Cutural Council
	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
Giselbert Behr Carroll Carpenter The Church Pension Group Davis, Polk, Wardwell DeCordova Museum Corporate Exhibitions Program August Joest Latham & Watkins Lowes Theaters, New York, NY Jay McInerney & Anne Hearst Meditech Susan Merritt Nicole Miller & Kim Taipale John Paulson Jim Signorelli Peter Soros United States Circuit Court, Delaware
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
If you daydream a memory of a wonderful day it's rarely just one "snapshot" that you summon, 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. The real pleasure in conjuring up the memory is not in any one part as it is in slipping through the images. I pursue that subconscious effect; to combine images in a way that tricks the mind to flicking from one image to the next, back and forth, a mental flickering that is slightly beyond our control. Art that induces a momentary wobble of perception that triggers the subconscious, making us the projector in a cerebral movie. To capture those fleeting, ontological moments of our lives that defy words, that can only be achieved visually. In a recent critical essay on Andy Warhol, Louis Menand examines the evolution of theory in the history of art and celebrates its arrival at "After the End of Art." He makes his point by saying that "Marcel Duchamp loved Warhol's Campbell's soup can paintings because they freed art from the tyranny of the retinal image. You don't need to stare at the paintings to get them." "You don't need to stare at the paintings…" This is a pervasive symptom of contemporary art criticism. The prevailing voices have talked themselves out of taking time with art. It gets in the way. Art has become just a placeholder for theory, for words, "after the end of art". On the other hand, paintings that resonate deep within our souls have a power that's stronger than rhetoric. Despite the direction of contemporary criticism, paintings are still being made to express the ineffable aspects of life that have been spurned by our sound-bite culture. It's art that's made to be stared at, to be devoured, to dive into and lose your self in.

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