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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Down the Back Stretch, Saratoga
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Marin-Price Galleries:
| Jenness Cortez (1944 - )
Education
Jenness Cortez is a mid-career artist. Born in Indiana, Jenness Cortez began her formal art studies at the age of sixteen under the guidance of noted Dutch painter, Antonius Raemaekers. Cortez further developed her fine arts background as a graduate of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and student of Arnold Blanche at the Art Students League of New York.
Sporting Art and Landscape Periods
Like the great horse painters George Stubbs and Frederic Remington, Jenness Cortez is first and foremost a draftsman. Beginning in 1977, and for the next twenty years, she received attention for her sporting paintings and her powerful depictions of the horse. During the mid 1990s, her long-time interest in landscape began to blossom. In the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River and Barbizon School painters, her vision comprehends all of nature as a manifestation of the divine. Cortez's landscape images evoke a certain transcendent quality rarely seen in contemporary realism. Her representations of the phenomenal world are intended to be sensitive, passionate and deeply moving.
Homage to the Creative Spirit
In her most recent works, Cortez pays homage to history's celebrated artists. Inspired by the light, color and form of the great masters, Cortez incorporates familiar images into painted contemporary settings. By depicting artworks into her compositions, Cortez underscores a classic paradox of painting: the painting as a "window" into an imagined space, and as a physical object; both a metaphysical presence and a material entity. Cortez chooses to utilize her talent for realism to illuminate the ordinary.
In the Collection of
Cortez's clients include those Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, HRH Queen Elizabeth, II, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alexander, Mr. Edgar Bronfman, Ms. Virginia Kraft Payson, Ambassador True Davis, Mr. Henry Kravis, Mr. Ogden Mills Phipps, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Congressman Gerald Solomon, Gov. George Pataki, Gov. Hugh Carey, Atlanta Braves general manager John Schuerholz and Mr. Jerry Weintraub.
Public and corporate collectors include the New York State Museum, Fluor Corporation, Saratoga Harness, Inc., Skidmore College and SUNY Empire State College.
Museum Exhibitions
Waterford Museum
Waterford, NY
One Person Show
NY Historical Society
New York, NY
Group Show
Waterford Museum
Waterford, NY
One Person Show
Schenectady Museum
Schenectady, NY
20 Year Retrospective
Albany Institute of History and Art
Albany NY,
A PBS Exhibition
Burroughs Chapin Museum
Myrtle Beach, SC
One Person Show
New York State Museum, Permanent Collection |
Biography from Anderson Galleries, Inc.:
| Born in Indiana, Jenness Cortez began her formal art studies at the age of sixteen under the guidance of noted Dutch painter, Antonius Raemaekers. Cortez further developed her solid fine arts background as a graduate of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and student of Arnold Blanche at the Art Students League of New York.
By depicting artworks in her compositions, Cortez underscores a classic paradox of painting: the painting as a "window" into an imagined space, and as a physical object; both a metaphysical presence and a material entity. Her compositions entreat the viewer's eye to move through these paintings again and again, examining every nuance. Cortez chooses to utilize her talent for realism to illuminate the ordinary. As in the works of O'Keeffe or Estes, everyday objects become dazzling and luminous when reconsidered through her art. Far from being mere exercises in photorealism or replication, each Cortez work touches upon questions about the nature of painting itself and the significance of art objects. Her work inspires viewers to rediscover, revalue and reintegrate their own creative force into the hurried regimen of modern life.
Cortez's work is in numerous public and private collections including those of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, HRH Queen Elizabeth, II, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alexander, Mr. Edgar Bronfman, Ms. Virginia Kraft Payson, Ambassador True Davis, Mr. Henry Kravis, Mr. Ogden Mills Phipps, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Congressman Gerald Solomon, Gov. George Pataki, Gov. Hugh Carey, Atlanta Braves general manager John Schuerholz and Mr. Jerry Weintraub. Public and corporate collectors include the New York State Museum, Fluor Corporation, Saratoga Harness, Inc., Skidmore College and SUNY Empire State College.
Museum Exhibitions
Waterford Museum, Waterford, NY; NY Historical Society, New York, NY; Waterford Museum, Waterford, NY; Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY; Albany Institute of History and Art; Burroughs Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; New York State Museum Albany, NY
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