Jennie C. Jones: A Line When Broken Begins Again Jennie C. Jones (American, b. 1968) creates paintings, sculptures, drawings, and sound installations that explore the relationships between visual art and music. She is especially interested in minimalism and Black sonic avantgarde traditions. Using simple geometric forms, a limited color palette, and unconventional materials like felt, soundabsorbing panels, and instrument strings, Jones creates artworks that alter the acoustics of their environments and bring our attention to the spaces that surround us. After studying painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1991) and Rutgers University (MFA, 1996), Jones spent her early career producing sound works, drawings, and sculptures from found materials like albums, speakers, cables, and CD racks. With these conceptual works, she began her ongoing investigation into the history of listening and music culture. In the early 2000s she returned to painting. As Jones has described, her work “thread[s] painting, architecture, and acoustics together, to bring my poetic and heartachy love of music history together with the narrative of how American modernism was constructed, which left out American music.” Over the last two decades, Jones has produced a singular body of work that unites the visual and aural, with a careful eye toward color, form, and texture.
For A Line When Broken Begins Again, Jones presents new paintings and collages alongside sound-based works and a site-specific sculpture. On view in the Pulitzer’s lower-level galleries is Other Octaves, the first exhibition curated by Jones. Together, these presentations offer new insight into the breadth of her practice and the diverse influences that have informed her thinking. Jennie C. Jones: A Line When Broken Begins Again is on view Sep 5, 2025—Feb 1, 2026. This exhibition is curated by Stephanie Weissberg, Senior Curator, with Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator. All works are by Jennie C. Jones.
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