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CHEIM & READ - Bill Jensen

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2015 · Entertainment

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Bill Jensen
Transgressions
Opens Thursday April 9, 2015 from 6-8 p

Exhibition continues through May 9

Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an 
exhibition of recent paintings by Bill Jensen. Jensen, 
who turns 70 this year, has been represented by the
gallery since 2007.

Bill Jensen’s paintings are the result of experimental, 
unpredictable, and sometimes years-long journeys. 
Striving for an ego-less, unpretentious practice 
devoid of preconceived outcomes, Jensen surrenders 
to the painting process, allowing it to determine the 
path and destination of his work. His intensive 
layering and re-working of the canvas results in 
highly tactile and seductive surfaces: paint is 
plastered on, scraped off, seeped, dredged, brushed 
and smoothed until a certain “presence” is achieved. 
Ultimately, he attempts to create paintings which, like 
self-contained beings, affect the world around 
them—a characteristic Jensen refers to as “emotional
density.” His new paintings explore these 
longstanding concerns, as well as others initiated 
with the body of work presented at Cheim & Read in
2011–12.

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