Jean Foos

Jean Foos

  • PAINTINGS
  • PAINTED SCULPTURE
  • Le Petit Versailles Garden / Winter 2023
  • GOVERNORS ISLAND / Summer 2022 / Outside-In
  • GOVERNORS ISLAND / Fall 2022 / Collaboration w/Talasnik
  • Southeast Queens Biennial
  • GOVERNORS ISLAND 2020 July to October
  • Cup Balls at Le Petit Versailles Garden
  • POSTCARD DRAWINGS
  • PAINTING TO SURVIVE: 1985-1995
  • WORK ON PAPER 2007-2020
  • SMALL WORK ON PAPER
  • 1980s Work on Paper
  • LINKS for PRESS and EXHIBITIONS
  • CANNONBALL LAGOON (the room)
  • CANNONBALL LAGOON (the book)
  • 1983 THE PIER 34 SHOW
  • ROME PAINTINGS 1978
  • FASHION SERIES
    • FASHION SERIES: Y Gallery installation
    • FASHION SERIES: H&M, Paul Smith, Viva Glam
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  • 2010-2011 PAINTINGS
  • PAINTINGS 2009
  • PAINTINGS 2007-2008
  • PAINTINGS 2003-2007
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installation view at BWAC Gallery
"Snowball Sale" and "Hudson and Spring" mentioned in review by R.C. Baker in the Village Voice:

"Jean Foos brings a vibrant formal wit to her slathered matrices of paint. Hudson and Spring (1995) was perhaps titled for the street intersection in Manhattan, but the mossy flagstone pattern overlaid with a sinuous net of color-shifting strokes conjures the primeval geometries of nature, before humanity segmented the island into a paved grid. Spheres reminiscent of buckyballs seem to hover within a red web in Foos’s gorgeous, octagon-shaped canvas Snowball Sale (1991). The title made at least this viewer laugh, as he recalled a piece by David Hammons performed near Cooper Union, in 1983, in which the brilliant conceptual artist sold snowballs to passersby from a red-striped blanket stretched out on the sidewalk.

Even if the viewer is wrong about that antecedent, the enthralling visions arising from Hammons’s aesthetic jujitsu helped define the most trenchant cultural currents of those years. New York City was in thrall to the spectacle of vulgar consumption practiced by voracious real estate speculators and hedge fund manipulators. At the national level, President Ronald Reagan saw government not as a tool that could solve society’s problems but as a cudgel with which to further afflict the afflicted, including those affected by a mysterious illness some were calling “the gay plague.”

This official neglect took a high toll on the community of artists...

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/28/everything-old-school-is-new-again/
“Everything Old School Is New Again: An exhibition of paintings from 1985 to 1995 reminds us of what we’re missing” (on the “Painting to Survive” show)


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