Jayne Holsinger


Self-Portrait as a Woman Driver,
Oil on gessoed wood panel
18" x 24"
Rearview, 1999 
Oil on gessoed wood panel
12" x 12"
Patty, 1999 
Oil on gessoed wood panel
12" x 12"
Yellow Truck, 1999 
Oil on gessoed wood panel
12" x 12"

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Women Drivers has been a theme for three years. In that time my paintings have edged increasingly into the serial quality of the films and contemporary photographs that have influenced me. (Cindy Sherman's early photos referred to as Untitled Film Stills, Alfred Leslie's film--The Last Clean Shirt, and popular movies like Thelma and Louise, to name a few.) I came on the subject Women Drivers while researching early women's magazines (1920's). I noticed the car ads which encouraged women to climb behind the wheel. I found the images used had a certain draw for me. In subsequent decades, in the same magazines, cartoons showed women drivers as something to be ridiculed. I work from my own photos, favoring their surface images and lens distortions. All landscapes are observed from a moving car. The paintings are intended to be hung in series varying from 2-9, alternating a woman driver with a landscape. A white border (the unpainted gesso ground) is used as a further play on photos. For me Women Drivers gives movement for those scorned cartoon females in the magazines. The landscapes zip by; the American roadway. The panels in combination also tell a larger story. Time-lapse is implied. Following the roads travelled, the paintings convey the possibility of inner transition, mobility, and passage.


Jayne Holsinger
463 West Street, #H822
212.255.5847


Biographical Note
Born in Mishawaka, Indiana. Currently lives and works in New York City

Current Exhibitions
Through November 26 RICHARD ANDERSON GALLERY. New York, NY, "A Passion for Art."
The New York Times, New York August 11
Through December 11 GALE GATES ET AL. Brooklyn, NY. "Size Matters." Curator: Mike Weiss

Group Exhibitions
1999 The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Bronx, NY. "Artist in the Marketplace: 19th Annual Exhibition." Curated by Marysol Nieves and Lydia Yee.
Hopper House Art Center. Nyack, NY. "Small Matters of Great Importance." Curator: Margery Theroux. (Juror: Paula Madawick.)
Kendall Art & Design. Hudson, NY. "Perspectives on the Ordinary: Landscape Photographs and Paintings." Curator: Sheila Moloney.
The New York Studio School. New York, NY. "Raw Seeing: Alumni Drawings."
Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY. "Summer Invitational." Curator: Jack Dowling.
1998 Artists Space. New York, NY. "Night of 1,000 Drawings."
Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah, NY. "Art as Spectacle." Juror: Thelma Golden.
Washington Square East Galleries of New York University. New York, NY. "Small Works." Juror: Ealan Wingate.
Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery. San Jacinto, CA. "Landscapes of the Mind." Curator: Lucinda Luvaas. Invitational.
1996 Andre Zarre Gallery. New York, N.Y. "UNDEREXPOSED; Nine Young American Painters."
Aljira. Newark, NJ. "The Aljira National 2." Jurors: Bill Arning, Joseph Szoecs, and Gail Stavitsky.
Women's Caucus for Art (Exhibition at Eastern Connecticut State University). Cheshire,CT. "Explorations; Small Worlds." Juror: William CarroIl.
New York Studio School. New York, NY. "People, Places, and Things."
Tribeca 148. New York, NY. "Dealers' Choice." Selected by Andre Zarre.
Washington Square East Galleries of New York University. New York, NY.
"Small Works." Juror: Edward Thorp.
1995 Tribeca 148. New York, NY. "Maximum Capacity."
Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY. "Artist's Choice."
1994 Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, OH. "58th National Midyear Exhibition." Curator: Robert L. Kurtz.
Montclair State University Art Galleries. Montclair, NJ. "Small Works." Juror: William Zimmer.
The Parents Foundation. New Haven, CT. "Integration, Disintegration, Reintegration.¾ Juror: Janet Saleh Dickson.
Washington Square East Galleries of New York University. New York, NY. "Small Works." Juror: Stephen HaIler.
Tribeca 148. New York, NY. "Mass Exposure."
Aljira. Newark, NJ. "100 x 100."
1993 Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY. "Holiday Exhibition."
Tribeca 148. New York, NY. "Wall to Wall."
Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY. "THE NUDE: Return to the Source."
1992 Tribeca 148. New York, NY. "Salon 1992."
Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY. "Art and Transformed Objects."
1991 Mark Gruber Gallery. New Paltz, NY. "Catskill Cows."
1990 New York Studio School. New York, NY. "Alumni Exhibition."
Westbeth Gallery. New York, NY. "Holiday Exhibition."
1984 National Academy of Desgin. New York, NY. "159th Annual Exhibition."

Grants/Awards
1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1998 Artist in the Marketplace Program. The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1995 First Place Pick. TRIBECA 148. New York, NY Selected by Andre Zarre
1994 Best of Show. Montclair State University Art Galleries. Montclair, NJ. Juror. William Zimmer
1994 Honerable Mentions (2). Butler Institue of American Art. Youngstown, OH. Juror: Robert Stackhouse
1984 Summer Fellowship. Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, VT.
1995 First Place Pick,TRIBECA 148. New York, NY Selected by Andre Zarre
1983 Merit Scholarship. New York Studio School. New York, NY. Faculty jury.
1974 Merit Scholarship. VERNON KIMBROUGH AWARD. Ringling School of Art. Sarasota, FL. Faculty jury.

Bibliography
1999 Nieves, Marysol. "Artist in the Marketplace... Exhibition." Exhibition catalogue. The Bronx Museum

Cotter, Holland. "Artist in the Marketplace." The New York Times, 23 July, page E35, col. 3.

NY Arts Album. "Artist in the Marketplace." NY Arts, September, vol. 4, no. 8, page 57
1998 Schwabsky, Barry. "Memory, Atmosphere and How They Connect." The New York Times NJ Ed., 22 November, page 16, col. 1.

Biscoff, Dan. "Drive, she said. And then she turned it into art." Star Ledger, 22 November, SEc. 4, page 1, col. 1.

Peseckis, Frank. "The Meeting of mediums." Register-Star, 17 July, page A6, col.1.
1996 Andre, Michael. "Group Show at Andre Zarre." Cover October 1996, page 20

Education
1982-1984 New York Studio School, New York, NY. 1979
1977 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 1977.
1973-1976 Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL. (BFA 1977)