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Bill Jensen: Video Interview

Link to post:
http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2012/02/bill-jensen-at-cheim-and-read-feb-2012.html

Feb 26

Bill Jensen, Book of Songs, 2010-11 Oil on linen, diptych, 54 x 44 inches (courtesy of Cheim & Read)

In a video interview, Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting talk with Bill Jensen at his recent exhibition of new paintings at Cheim & Read, New York.

Speaking about his new multi-panel paintings Jensen remarks that "it's not a shaped canvas, it's internally divided, so at that physical divide, I can be very abrupt with time and space and make things more complicated like I think they really are... What interests me about these panels is how I can abruptly change the space, the time - the sound of the painting - from panel to panel."

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Gorky's Granddaughter

Bill Jensen: Interview

Link to Post:

http://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/art/bill-jensen-in-conversation-with-peter-brock

Peter Brock interviews painter Bill Jensen on the occasion of his current exhibition of new paintings at Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, on view through February 18, 2012.

Jensen discusses in depth his the origins of his recent group of triptychs. He remarks: "I think with the physical dimension of the panels, I'm able to more radically change the tone, the darkness, the space, the time in the paintings than I could if it was one single painting. The ones that have only a painted division cannot create as dramatic a change. Physically I’m allowed to make very radical changes with separate panels. And also the drawn elements can go across from one panel to another. There’s lots of freedom you have with these panels—they can be turned around, the starting configuration of the drawing can be changed very quickly just by moving all the panels around."

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Brooklyn Rail

Bill Jensen @ Cheim & Read

Link to Post:

http://www.thoughtsthatcureradically.com/2012/01/bill-jensen-at-cheim-and-read.html

Caleb De Jong reviews the exhibition Bill Jensen at Cheim and Read, New York, on view through February 18, 2012.

De Jong writes that Jensen's "new paintings provide a tonal and chromatically hushed experience. Brush-marks no longer create unified composition, instead forms float atop the picture plane and splotches of collage-like paint stitch the surface together. Titles such as, 'The Trinity,' 'Song of Songs' and 'Begot' insinuate a turn of mind. Moving away from an 'exterior' optically sumptuous chroma, Jensen's new works posit an interior, ineffable space for contemporary painting."

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Thoughts That Cure Radically