JENNE CURRIE

Website: Jennemcurrie.com

Instagram: @curriestudio

Contact: Jenne M Currie   

Jenne M Currie video by Michael Nelson  

ONE WORLD Recent Work                

August 5 - 28, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, August 5 from 5-7 pm.

Buster Levi Gallery 121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY.     busterlevigallery.com

Multidisciplinary artist, Jenne Currie who hails from an impressive line of artists, will be exhibiting paintings, welded steel sculpture and more at the Buster Levi Gallery in Cold Spring, NY beginning August 6. 

The bulk of Currie’s current paintings were created in the Spring of 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and as fifty years of progress toward gender rights appeared to be disintegrating. Currie describes her current work as “emerging from my need to create a sense of joy at this fraught time through color relationships, spontaneous brush strokes and playful compositions.  In order to keep my emotional equilibrium, I need to push back against the sense of existential dread which I feel all around”. With her compositions often riffing off of the yin-yang symbol representing the interrelatedness of all life forms, Currie says, “We need to remember that we are all one Personhood of Humanity here on this small planet”.  

“(Her) work is extremely dynamic… it”s very alive !”, says Sylvia Leonard Wolf, renowned art appraiser during her November 2021 interview with the artist in Currie’s spacious studio in the famed Woodstock NY. An excellent example is One World 2. Comprised of  irregular geometric forms that float on a black ground reduced to lines in between the shapes, the painting is in constant motion. Although almost all the shapes contain visible brushwork, they are all different. Furthermore, there are various degrees of transparency that gives the painting a limited depth which is in tension with the nearly consistent black ground. Free use of complementary colors further activates the painting. Finally, the shapes appear to jostle, bump into each other within the black, as if they are floating.

Currie’s work runs the gamut: polychrome wall sculpture, welded steel, painting, aluminum mobiles, collage and mixed media, all of which can be viewed on her website- jennemcurrie.com or follow her on Instagram @curriestudio 

Buster Levi Gallery hours Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 6 pm.