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Curated Exhibitions and Installations
“Treetones,” Governors Island, NYC, National Park Service, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Site-specific Installation, May & June 2016
- Description: Treetones is a site-specific installation on Governors Island. Hand-sewn fabric wraps, made from tree rubbings, are tied to 12 different trees on the Island. Visitors are guided by a self-directed tour map to locate and identify the trees. They may also collect bark rubbings from each stop on the tour. Highlighted species include American Elm, Red Oak, Norway Maple, Horse Chestnut and London Plane. This project was made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Trust for Governors Island and the National Park Service.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Overtones,” Governors Island, NYC, National Park Service/LMCC, Site-specific Installation, May & June 2016
- Description: A public audio installation that aims to create aural connections to natural environments through the harmonic tones generated by wind harps discreetly installed in trees around Governor’s Island. Exhibited as part of LMCC Open Studios.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Birds of Brooklyn” Mixed Greens, NYC. September 2015 – January 2016
- Description: This curated site-specific audio installation, an extension of the Brooklyn-based project, was installed at Mixed Greens, NYC. Visitors to the gallery and passersby on 26th Street in Chelsea, near the entrance of the Highline, heard over 70 different recordings of endangered and bygone birds.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“FOODShed”, CR10 Gallery, Hudson, NY, Curated Group Exhibition, Curated by Amy Lipton, June 7-July 27, 2015
- Description: This curated group exhibition by ecoartspace curator, Amy Lipton featured artists who work in relationship to agriculture, from greenhouses to urban furniture gardens to canning and color-coding vegetables to making cheese from goat’s milk. Some of the projects address farming as both activism and art form.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Birds of Brooklyn: Miami Migration“, Pulse Miami / Art Basel Miami. Special Project / Public Installation. December 2014
- Description: This curated special project for Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair was an extension of the Brooklyn-based project and was installed at the entrance to the fair. Birds of Brooklyn: Migration Miami created a dialogue between the ghosts of these two cities. Visitors heard over 70 different recordings of endangered and bygone birds from the Brooklyn and Miami areas, including the Northern Bobwhite, Heath Hen, Cape Sable Sparrow, and Florida Scrub-jay.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“BRIC Biennial“, BRIC House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated Group Exhibition. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC Vice President, Contemporary Art; Jenny Gerow, Assistant Curator; and guest curators Leslie Kerby and Fawz Kabra, Sept-Dec 2014
- Description: This exhibition presented the work of emerging and mid-career visual artists working across artistic media, focusing on different areas of Brooklyn. InsideOut House was a participatory, binaural audio installation that simulates the experience of solitude within a natural soundscape.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
FOODShed, Smack Mellon Gallery, DUMBO Brooklyn, Group Exhibition, Curated by Amy Lipton, June 7-July 27, 2014
- Description: This curated group exhibition by ecoartspace curator, Amy Lipton will feature artists who work in relationship to agriculture, from greenhouses to urban furniture gardens to canning and color-coding vegetables to making cheese from goat’s milk. Some of the projects address farming as both activism and art form.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Digging Deeper” at Franklin Works, Stamford, CT, April 4 – June 16, 2013
- Description: Digging Deeper was a curated group exhibition by ecoartspace curator, Amy Lipton. It will feature artists who work in relationship to agriculture, from greenhouses to urban furniture gardens to canning and color-coding vegetables to making cheese from goat’s milk. Some of the projects address farming as both activism and art form. Artists in this exhibition are known for bringing community-specific issues into their work.
- Role: Invited Artist
Pulse Miami “Seeding the City” Curated Special Project, Dec 6- 9, 2012
- Description: Seeding the City was a participatory, site-specific project developed at the request o the director for Pulse Miami during Art Basel (Dec 6- 9, 2012) in association with Mixed Greens gallery and with support from the Stevens Prize. It was very well received and mentioned in Huffington Post and other media.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Eight Extraordinary Greens” at Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC, Curated Solo Exhibition, May 3, 2012 – June 4, 2012
- Description: A solo exhibition at Mixed Greens gallery in the Chelsea arts district in New York City. This exhibition, which explored the value of food, community, and creative practice in contemporary art gallery setting, was very well received and reviewed in numerous local and international media outlets.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Platte Clove Artists” at Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY, Curated Group Exhibition, December 10, 2011 – April 6, 2012
- Description: This exhibition, which showcases the visual art of some of Platte Clove’s past Artists-in-Residence, was held at the Erpf Gallery in Arkville, NY- in partnership with the Roxbury Arts Group. Each spring the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development opens the historic Platte Clove cabin, situated in the Platte Clove Wilderness Preserve, to selected visual artists, writers, poets, composers, and environmental researchers whose work has an affinity for the natural world and its preservation.
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
“Horsplay” at UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Curated Group Exhibition, September 8 – October 22 2011
- Description: Horsplay featured artwork by alumni from University at Buffalo’s Department of Visual Studies. Via an imaginary GPS, guest-curator Bill Maynes takes us on a voyage to the various islands of Gulliver’s Travels in relation to the eleven artists selected for the exhibition. Horsplay-Catalogue.pdf
- Role: Invited exhibiting artist
Please refer to 2016 Promotion PARSE for documentation of above activities.
One and Two-Person^ Exhibitions (up to 2010)
| 2010 | Birds of Brooklyn A grant-funded, community-based, public audio installation and website highlighting Brooklyn’s endangered and bygone birds. |
| 2009 | Remnants I-Park Site Installation, East Haddam, CT |
| 2008 | Instability Cleary Gottlieb, NYC^ |
| 2004 | White Room White Columns, NYC |
| 2004 | A Funny Feeling of Weightlessness Anthony Giodano Gallery, Oakdale, NY^ |
| 2001 | Jenna Spevack Artists (web) Space, Artists Space, NYC |
| 2001 | Sticks and Stones and Superstrings Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA |
| 2001 | Small + Blue Here Gallery, NYC |
| 1998 | Inside The Glassy Rock Madame Vox Performance Series, NYC |
| 1997 | The Production Facility Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA |
| 1997 | Traven Pelletier and Jenna Spevack Hudson D. Walker, Provincetown, MA* |
| 1996 | Echobird Charts the Paradox Formation Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI* |
| 1995 | Echoland Dance Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI |
| 1994 | A Tale Art Department Gallery, SUNY at Buffalo, NY* |
| 1993 | Sequences Pfeifer Gallery, Buffalo, NY* |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | Trilogy Chelsea Modern, NYC (three-person) |
| 2009 | BDL Animation Screening Brooklyn Design Lab, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Jenna Spevack, Bruce Busby, Maribel Tapia Hendershot Gallery, NYC |
| 2009 | Sanlun Yishu Bunk 8, Beijing, China |
| 2009 | Platte Clove AIR Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY |
| 2009 | AIR, International Artists Residencies Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2008 | Hungarian Multicultural Center Residents Mucius Galéria, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2006 | Some Things are Funny, Some are Quite Serious Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago |
| 2005 | Conduit Columbus State University, Columbus, GA |
| 2005 | Former Fellows Hudson D. Walker, Provincetown, MA |
| 2004 | Warp and Weft PS122 / Artwurl: www.artwurl.org |
| 2003 | Group Show Monya Rowe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2003 | CyberFolio Hostos Art Center, NYC |
| 2003 | Panorama_City Panorama City, Zurich Switzerland |
| 2002 | Now Serving Art in General, NYC |
| 2002 | This Weather Spells S-I-C-K-D-A-Y Parlor Projects, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 | PANORAMA_CITY Panorama City, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2001 | Animas Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2001 | Tipping Point White Columns, NYC |
| 2001 | Peaks Kagan Martos Gallery, NYC |
| 2001 | Prototype Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY (four-person) |
| 2001 | Small Works Hudson D. Walker, Provincetown, MA The Cape Museum, Truro, MA |
| 2000 | Flatfile Bellwether Gallery, NYC |
| 2000 | RISD Group Exhibition Bingo Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2000 | Some Assembly Inspired Longwood Arts Gallery, NYC |
| 2000 | Science Fictions White Columns, NYC |
| 1999 | Outer Boroughs White Columns, NYC |
| 1998 | Former Fellows of NY Lamia Ink, NYC & Provincetown, MA |
| 1998 | Inside The Glassy Rock Madame Vox Performance Series, NYC |
| 1997 | Cloning Show DNA Gallery, Provincetown MA |
| 1997 | Visual Fellows Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA |
| 1996 | Painter’s Prints Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI |
| 1996 | Thesis Exhibition RISD Museum, Providence, RI |
| 1995 | Transferred States City College of New York, University of Arizona, RISD |
| 1995 | Invitational Exhibition Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI |
| 1994 | 45th Annual Western New York Exhibition Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 1994 | Eleven Painters Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI |
Collections
- Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
- Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
- MacDowell Colony Inc., Peterborough, NH
- Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
- Fundacion Valparaiso, Residency Mojacar, Spain
- Kagan Martos Gallery, NYC
- + private collections