Jenna Spevack


The Theory of Everything (falling cat detail), 2000
watercolor and graphite
70" x 120"
Glassy Rocks with Random Variations, 1999
wood, cast plastic, flashing LEDs
installation view
Sticks and Stones and Superstrings 8, 2000
graphite
7" x 9"
Inside the Glassy Rock, 1998
wood, vinyl, flashing LEDs
installation view

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My work explores the ideas and strategies of scientists and philosophers who study the origin and life of the universe. I am particularly interested in phenomena that cannot always be perceived or understood directly. As an alternative to the vast world of physics and biology, I create models for a secondary universe. This universe, with its own physics and inhabitants, allows me to take an unassuming step back from the cerebral world of science and make small/funny connections between imagery, ideas, and daily life events. By observing nature's fundamental order of forces and interactions, through indirect evidence or interference, one can observe the life and evolution of things.


Jenna Spevack
37 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
212.875.6390
email:info@jennaspevack.com
website:www.jennaspevack.com

Education
1996 Rhode Island School of Design
MFA Painting/Printmaking
1994 State University of New York at Buffalo
BFA Printmaking
Selected Exhibitions
2001 Arts Center of the Capital Region, Prototype, Troy, NY

2000 PS122, Small Works Benefit, NYC

Bellwether Gallery, Flatfile, Brooklyn, NY

Longwood Arts Gallery, Some Assembly Inspired, Bronx, NY

White Columns, Science Fictions, NYC

1999 White Columns, Outer Boroughs, NYC

Lamia Ink, Former Fellows of New York, NYC

1998 Madame Vox Performance Series, Inside The Glassy Rock, NYC
1997 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, The Production Facility, Provincetown, MA

DNA Gallery, Cloning Show, Provincetown, MA

Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Traven Pellitier and Jenna Spevack, Provincetown, MA

Selected Honors and Fellowships
2001-2002 Longwood Arts. Cyber Residency/Fellowship, Bronx, NY
1999 Rema Hort Mann Art Grant Nominee

MacDowell Colony Inc. Residency, Peterborough, NH Winter

1997 MacDowell Colony Inc. Residency, Peterborough, NH Fall

Fine Arts Work Center. Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA

1993 Rumsey Travel Grant. (Japan)