J.C. Fontanive
J.C. Fontanive Faster Then I Thought November 15, 2019 - January 11, 2020
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Dog Bite, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 48 x 35 inches
If/Then, 2019 (two views) Enamel on aluminum 55 x 45 inches
A Certain Level of Professionalism, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper, stainless steel 25 x 16 inches
Adverbs, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 11 x 7.5 inches
A Thousand Furnished Rooms, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 11 x 8 inches
Broken Fingernails of Dirty Hands, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper, stainless steel, aluminum 47 x 34 inches
Nevsky Prospekt, 2019 Arcylic on welded aluminum 58 x 42 inches
Freedom That I Found, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 54 x 81 inches
New Rose, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper, ed. of 2, 1 AP 9.5 x 8.5 inches
Music & Gum, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 14.5 x 12 inches
Part of the Reason, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 51 x 37 inches
Structuralism, 2019 Oil, paper pulp and mixed media on canvas 75 x 57 inches
Tokyo Story, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper, stainless steel, ed of 2, 1 AP 20 x 15 inches
The Bunch of Grapes Revisted, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper, ed of 2, 1 AP 4.5 x 3.5 inches
Way On To Way, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 18 x 14 inches
Dimensional Interval, 2019 (two views) Enamel paint on aluminum 72 x 67 inches
The Man In the Gabardine Suit, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 31 x 18 inches
It Was Just A Silly Dream, 2019 Oil, paper pulp and mixed media on canvas 60 x 48 inches
Classic Meters, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 15.5 x 12 inches
Cairo, 2019 Vitreous enamel on copper 14 x 9 inches
BIOGRAPHY 1977
Born, Cleveland, OH
2014
Myxathesys, Carbono Galeria, São Paulo
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
2014
Ornithology, Savernack Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
See-Sounds, Riflemaker Gallery, London
2010
Liveliness, Volta 6, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Zoo Solo Works, Zoo Art Enterprises, London
2008
Tin Tan, Riflemaker Gallery, London
2006
Paper Films, Riflemaker Gallery, London
EDUCATION 2006
MFA, The Royal College of Art, London, UK
1999
BA, Syracuse University, NY
AWARDS 2018
Brooke and Hap Stein Emerging Artist Prize, MOCA Jacksonville, FL
2016
Marble House Project Residency, Dorset, VT
2010
Jerwood Painting Prize, shortlist, Jerwood Space, London
2004
Desmond Preston Drawing Prize, The Royal Collage of Art, London
1999
Louise Wetherbee Phelps Award for Writing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019
In the Summertime, Danese/Corey, New York, NY Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI 2018
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
The Ones After The Physical Ones, Conduit 2017 Gallery, Dallas, TX Movement 4, MOCA Jacksonville, FL Machine Language, Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD 2016 Films Without Light, Danese/Corey, New York, NY Films Without Light, Riflemaker Gallery, London, England Reflected Yeses, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX 2015 Together Principle, Y Gallery, New York, NY
Attentive Arrangements, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL It Passes Like a Thought, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA
2019 Faster Then I Thought, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
2017
Creatures, Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York, NY
‘Scape, Danese/Corey, New York, NY Connecting to The Beginning, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY Fool the Eye, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY The House of the Book, Museum Meermanno, The Hague, The Netherlands The Internal Machine, New York Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (upcoming) Radical Kingdoms, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2016 Contemporary Art Festival, Moscow University Apothecarie’s garden, Moscow, Russia Historie Naturelle, La Frontiera, Paris, France
Western Visions, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
2013 WAH Bridges Bushwick, The WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Comes to Westport, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Unsteady Ground, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
The Window 235 Bowery, New Museum, New York, NY
BRIC Contemporary Artist Registry Short List
A Riflemaker Exhibition, Riflemaker Gallery, London
The Rabbit Hole, Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Noire Gallery, Switzerland
2015 Paradise Syndrome, PEANA Projects at Puccio Marble Works, Brooklyn, NY
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK
New Artists Feature 120, Culturehall
Cross Pollinated, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Baltimore, MD
2012 Reveal + Hidden, Guestspot, Baltimore, MD
LEAP!, Contemporary Art Society, London
Se Liga!, The Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
A Gush of Water Cleared the Land, The Running Horse, Beirut
Habitats, outdoor sculpture show, Market Art & Design, Bridgehampton, NY
2011 photo LA., Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
Dutton Gallery at Gansevoort St, New York, NY
Precarious Interchange, Waxy Pith, Brussels, Belgium
Home Improvement, Rock Street outdoor sculpture show, Bushwick, NY
7+1 Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
The Experiences Of Beauty, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, France
Trompe Le Monde, Occupy Space, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
Flock, Ganna Walska Lotusland, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Human Machinery, +81 Gallery, New York, NY
Nothin’ On, Noire Gallery, Turin, Italy
The Scars Are Not Just Skin Deep, Cob Gallery, London
Dear Paul, Fridge Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Mating Season, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
Iridescent Behavior, The True Wheel, Brooklyn, NY.
2010 For The Sake of the Image, Jerwood Gallery, London
Intimate Spaces, Galerie8, London
2009 Obsession: contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK 2008 Indica, Nyehaus Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Ingenuity, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 2006 Magnetic Vision, Kinetica Museum, London
Riflemaker becomes Indica, Riflemaker Gallery, London
Sensory Material, Bonhams, London
photoLondon, The Royal Academy of Art, London
2015
The Show, Royal College of Art, London 2005 Dead Aim, Riflemaker Gallery, London Under Five’s, 39 Space, London
Charles Doneland, “Why We’re Flocking to Lotusland,” Independent. 2014
60 Seconds, The Gallery Southwark Park, Bermondsey, London Typography and Gridlock, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London MAN Group Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London PUBLICATIONS 2018
Megan N. Liberty, “The Book as Technology,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 18, 2018.
2017 Matthew B. Shaw, “Internal Synchonicity,” Folio, December 13, 2017. “MOCA Jacksonville’s Atrium Project: Juan Fontanive’s ‘Movment 4,’” Times-Union. Haruka Yamasaki, “Not Only Movement, Sound Lives,” TABI LABO, July 7, 2017. Jenna Swartz, Mandeville Gallery’s ‘Radical Kingdom,’ Concordiensis. 2016
Kate Murphy, “Juan Fontanive: Birds, Butterflies and Animated Machines,” Frontrunner Magazine, July 7, 2016. Grace Raver, “An artist has re-envisioned..,” Tech Insider, April 21, 2016. Emily McDermott, “10 Picks from The Dallas Art Fair 2016,” Interview Magazine, April 15, 2016. Paulina Castro, “Juan Fontanive”, Catálogodiseño. Nina Azzarello, “Juan Fontanive’s Motorized Flipbooks Animate Fluttering Butterflies + Flying Birds,” Designboom, January 12, 2016. 2013 Anna Green, “Things Fluttering,” Mental Floss, January 21, 2016.
David Andrew Frey, “New Artists Feature,” Culturehall.
Marialuisa Pastò, “Juan Fontanive,” Dust Magazine. Lo Parkin, “Juan Fontanive,” People of Print. Donnia Ghezlane-Lala, “Birds Flip Books,” Fubiz Media, December 14, 2014. Na Nossa Mira, video, Arte 1. “MAIS CULTURA | INTERVIEW WITH JUAN FONTANIVE,” Mais Cultura, October 7, 2014. “Dança de cores e sons na cidade,” Vogue Brasil, October 2014. “Thesis About the Mix,” Bamboo, October 2014. “Juan Fontanive realiza primeira individual no Brasil,” MADMAG, October 2014. Luciana Pareja Norbiato, “Beleza Hipnotica,” Select Art, October 2014. Genista, “Juan Fontanive Assembles Ornithological Flip Books From Old Bicycles,” Beautiful Decay. Liz Stinson, “Juan Fontanive,” Wired, April 2014. Mark Wilson, “Feast Your Eyes,” FastCoDesign, April 2014. Danielle Krysa, “Juan Fontanive,” The Jealous Curator, April 2014. Jeff Hamada, “Beautiful Flip-Books Made From Recycled Bike Parts by Artist Juan Fontanive,” BOOOOOOOM!, April, 2014. Christopher Jobson, “New Bird & Butterfly Flip Book Machines by Juan Fontanive,” This Is Colossal, April 2014. “Spectacular Motorized Flipbooks of HandDrawn Birds,” My Modern Met, September 2013.
“Hand-Illustrated Bird Flipbook Machines by Juan Fontanive,” The Laughing Squid, May 2013.
Jeff Hamada, “Juan Fontanive,” BOOOOOOOM!, August 2013.
Christopher Jobson, “Bird Flipbook Machines by Juan Fontanive,” This Is Colossal, August 2013.
2012
Gilda Williams, “Juan Fontanive: Ghosts in the Machine,” essay.
Robin Mann, “An Introduction,” Riflemaker Gallery, catalog.
Ann Jones, “Moving Pictures,” IMAGE OBJECT TEXT, January 2012.
2009
Obsession: Contemporary Art From The Lodeveans Collection, catalog.
2008
Ingenuity, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, catalog.
“Juan Fontanive: Tin-Tan,” Flavorpill London.
2007
Andrew Wilson, “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” Art Monthly, March 2007.
2006
Ian White, “Frames Per Second,” Art Review, March 2006.
Gemma De Cruz, “Paper Films,” BBC Collective, January 12, 2006.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition: J.C. Fontanive: Faster Then I Thought Danese/Corey, New York, NY November 15, 2019 - January 11, 2020
Photography Shark Senesac Catalogue © 2019/2020 Danese/Corey Works of art © 2019 J.C. Fontanive
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