{"id":9195,"date":"2019-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/2019\/12\/27\/joyce-pensato-en"},"modified":"2024-08-03T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:20:18","slug":"joyce-pensato-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/joyce-pensato-en","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Pensato"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joyce Pensato<\/p>\n

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Joyce Pensato who <\/font><\/span>was born in Brooklyn, New York, the USA where she continues to live and work.<\/span> Her <\/span>paints exuberant<\/font><\/span>, explosive large-scale likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. Her seemingly frenzied technique \u2013 actually involving the deliberate accretion of successive layers of bold linear gestures, rapid spattering, and frequent erasures \u2013 results in alternately humorous and sinister imagery. <\/span><\/p>\n

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While her prima facie subject matter ranges from Batman, The Simpsons and MickeyMouse to Felix the Cat and Elmo from Sesame Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her artistic progenitors include Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Joyce Pensato who <\/font><\/span>was born in Brooklyn, New York, the USA where she continues to live and work.<\/span> Her <\/span>paints exuberant, explosive large-scale likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. Her seemingly frenzied technique \u2013 actually involving the deliberate accretion of successive layers of bold linear gestures, rapid spattering, and frequent erasures \u2013 results in alternately humorous and sinister imagery. <\/font><\/span>While her prima facie subject matter ranges from Batman, The Simpsons and MickeyMouse to Felix the Cat and Elmo from Sesame Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her artistic progenitors include Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston.<\/span><\/p>\n


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As well as excising her floating heads from the contexts of Gotham, Disneyland, Springfield or South Park, Pensato situates her figuresin troubling psychological states and indeterminate spaces. The true source of their meaning is concealed, not only by successive sweeps of paint but beneath the guileless grin of Donald Duck or the Caped Crusader\u2019s eye-less mask. Taking much of her material from her surroundings in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, USA \u2013 from graffitied walls to hand-scrawled shop signs \u2013 Pensato paints almost exclusively in shop-bought black and white enamel, while also employing charcoal and pastel for smaller-scale drawings. Recently Pensatohas began painting oversized murals, often taking weeks to complete, while there are also occasional leaps away from the monochrome world she generally inhabits into sporadic bursts of color, especially silver and gold.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Joyce Pensato’s Solo exhibitions include Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2016), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA (2015) and Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA (2013). Pensato\u2019s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA; the Hammer Museum, USA, Los Angeles, USA; the Dallas Museum of Art; St Louis Art Museum and the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France. She has won numerous awards including the Robert de Niro Sr. Prize (2013), the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1997) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    2020<\/p>\n

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    • \u201cGIN HUANG Gallery Taichung\u201d, Gin Huang Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      2018<\/p>\n

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      • \u2018Joyce Pensato: L.A. Show\u2019, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        2017<\/p>\n

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        • \u2018FORGETTABOUT IT\u2019, Lisson Gallery, London, UK<\/li>\n
        • \u2018Make My Day\u2019, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          • \u2018The Fizz\u2019, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/li>\n
          • \u2018Joyce Pensato: Felix and Lincoln\u2019, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA<\/li>\n
          • \u2018The Godmother\u2019, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, USA<\/li>\n
          • \u2018Later is Now\u2019, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            2015<\/p>\n

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            • \u2018FOCUS: Joyce Pensato\u2019, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA<\/li>\n
            • \u2018Later is Now\u2019, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n
            • Site-specific wall project, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA<\/li>\n
            • \u2018Castaway\u2019, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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              • \u2018Painter\u2019s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz\u2019, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA<\/li>\n
              • \u2018Joyceland\u2019, Lisson Gallery, London, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                • \u2018I Killed Kenny\u2019, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA<\/li>\n
                • Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  2012<\/p>\n

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                  • \u2018You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do\u2019, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL, USA<\/li>\n
                  • \u2018Batman Returns\u2019, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    2011 <\/p>\n

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                    • Hotel, London, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      2010 <\/p>\n

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                      • \u2018Ask Joey\u2019, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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                          2009<\/p>\n

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                          • Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            2007<\/p>\n

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                            • \u2018The Eraser\u2019, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA<\/li>\n
                            • \u2018Recent Drawings\u2019, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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