The Rose Art Museum Announces Jennie C. Jones as Recipient of 2017 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award

The Rose Art Museum is pleased to name Jennie C. Jones as the recipient of the 2017 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award. Drawing connections between art and music, the Brooklyn-based artist creates visual and sound abstractions that explore intersections between cultural and social histories. Through her work, Jones highlights the complex and often parallel legacies of the mid-twentieth century-from abstraction, Minimalism, and avant-garde jazz to the era's seminal political and social shifts-revealing the unlikely alliances that emerge between the visual arts and music of the 1950s and '60s. Jones describes her approach as "listening as a conceptual practice."

Jones will give a talk about her work and her planned residency project at Brandeis University on March 22 at 5:30pm. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be held in the Presentation Room of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center. For her Perlmutter residency, Jones will create new work in response to the rich cultural history of the Rose Art Museum and of Brandeis, engaging the university community in the creation of a score inspired by Louise Nevelson's 1967 retrospective exhibition at the Rose. On April 29, this score will be interpreted and performed by Brandeis student and faculty musicians, who will present it in the Rose galleries during the campus-wide Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.

Established through the generosity of Ruth Ann Perlmutter and given in recognition of an emerging artist's achievement, the Perlmutter Award supports Jones' residency on campus, allowing Brandeis University students to work closely with artists of great acclaim.

"We thank Ruth Ann Perlmutter for her generous support of the Rose and for enabling us to bring Jennie C. Jones to Brandeis this spring," said Kristin Parker, Interim Director of the Rose. "The Perlmutter Award allows the Rose to promote and explore the work of artists poised to have a lasting impact on their field. Jones' residency will create a unique opportunity for creative intersections across multiple disciplines of our university community."

ABOUT THE PERLMUTTER AWARD

The Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award is part of the Rose's longstanding tradition of promoting young artists. Honorees include Roxy Paine (2002), Barry McGee (2004), Xavier Veilhan (2005), Dana Schutz (2006), Clare Rojas (2007), Alexis Rockman (2008), Michael Dowling (2009-10), Sam Jury (2011), Dor Guez (2012), Mika Rottenberg (2013-2014), Mary Weatherford (2015), and JJ PEET (2016).

Nathan Perlmutter served as national director of the Anti-Defamation League for eight years. Along with his wife, Ruth Ann, he championed the interfaith movement and sought to empower Jews, blacks and other minorities. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 1987, shortly before his death. He was a vice president at Brandeis from 1969-73. Ruth Ann, who has degrees from the University of Denver and Wayne State University, is a noted sculptor and painter.

ABOUT JENNIE C. JONES

Jennie C. Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1968, and currently lives and in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1996. Prior to that she attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991. Jones was a Visiting Artist on the M.F.A. Faculty at Montclair State University from 2012-2013 and a Resident Faculty Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. She is a Faculty Critic in the MFA Sculpture Department at Yale University. Among her numerous awards, Jones is the 2016 recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Award presented by the Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Jones' work has been exhibited at major national and international art institutions including solo presentations at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2009); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2011); The Kitchen in New York (2011); and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2013). Compilation, a ten-year survey exhibition of her work curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, was on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2016), with an accompanying book published by Gregory R. Miller with essays by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Hilton Als, and George E. Lewis, along with a conversation between Jones and Huey Copeland.

For more information, visit http://www.jenniecjones.com/

ABOUT THE ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Founded in 1961, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is among the nation's premier university museums dedicated to collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting 20th and 21st century art. A center of cultural and intellectual life on campus, the Museum serves as a catalyst for artistic expression, a living textbook for object-based learning, and a site for scholarly innovation and the production of new knowledge through art. American painting of the postwar period and contemporary art are particularly well represented within the Rose's permanent collection, which is now more than 8,000 objects strong.

Major paintings by Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, and Andy Warhol anchor the collection, and recently acquired works by Mark Bradford, Al Loving, Jack Whitten, and Charline von Heyl build upon this strength while reflecting the Museum's commitment to works of both artistic importance and social relevance. Through its collection, exhibitions, and programs, the Rose works to affirm and advance the values of global diversity, freedom of expression, and social justice that are hallmarks of Brandeis University.