Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969–70 French seasonal food

seasonal food

Flying Dragon—among the last of the monumental works Calder made—exemplifies the artist’s capacity to invest a powerful visual dynamism in his work regardless of scale

from 1981 through 1986

Three other essayists—Michael Govan

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Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969–70 French seasonal foodThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Neil Jenney: The Bad Years 196970 at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. It features more than twenty five paintings made by the artist between 1969 and 1970. Jenney began to make the Bad Paintings in the 1960s, referring to them as such after curator Marcia Tuckers 1978 exhibition Bad Painting at the New Museum, New York. These purposefully sketchy, gestural works poked at preconceptions