Jane McNichol
Lives and works in New York, NY.
The landscape monotypes are based on images that inspire the artist’s landscape paintings, which she makes in her New York studio. At Manneken Press, McNichol worked from photographs and from memory, utilizing a simple monotype technique to create landscape and seascape images that have a direct, loose, and abstracted quality.
About half of the 2005 monotypes are still life images. “I’ve always been fascinated with the light that comes in the windows (of her studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn)”, says McNichol. “The objects that I paint are backlit by the intense light of the outdoors so that the part of the still life that is closer to me appears darker. How to paint an object that is lighter in color farther from me and darker in the area that is closer to me creates a challenging spatial puzzle.” The still life monotypes were made directly from still lifes set up in the Manneken Press studio.
McNichol is a 2005 recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. Other awards include an Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal from the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Foundation and a grant from the Friends of the Contemporary Art Center in North Adams, Massachusetts. Also a MacDowell Fellow, McNichol has exhibited her paintings, prints and photographs in one person and group exhibitions in museums, galleries and juried shows across the United States. Her paintings hang in more than 40 private, corporate and public collections, including Reader’s Digest, McGraw Hill, Wyeth Laboratories and the U.S. Department of State. A native of Philadelphia, McNichol earned a bachelor’s degree in studio arts from Temple University and studied in Rome, Italy, with Temple’s Tyler School of Art.
EDUCATION
1974 B. A. Studio Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
2005 Pollock – Krasner Foundation Inc. Grant
1996 Friends of Contemporary Art Center Award, North Adams, MA
1989 Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal, Catherine Lorillard Wolf Foundation
1985 Macdowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 North End Trilogy, Barnegat Light, NJ
2006 Villanova University, Villanova, PA
2003 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
2002 Soundview Lobby Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2002 Gallery at Merritt Crossing, Milford, CT
2001 Jane McNichol: Works On Paper, Wallspace, New York, NY
1998 The Fall Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
1996 Cardoza Law School, New York, NY
1995 Approaching Infinity, Michaelian & Kohlberg, New York, NY
SELCTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Aqua Art Miami, Manneken Press,Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, FL.
Spring Awakening, Joie de Livres, Salisbury, CT
2007 Full Circle: Recent Prints from Manneken Press, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, Collins C. Dibboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2005 Manneken Press at 5 Years, Bloomington, IL
2005 Juried Exhibition, Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY
2003 Personal Impressions, Makeready Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2002 American Landscapes, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2002 Through the Lens of September 11, SoHo Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Here is New York, New York, NY
1999 Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY
1999 Wish You Were Here, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
1998 No England, No Amsterdam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1998 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, juror: Laura Hoptman
1998 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
1997 Landscapes and Still Lifes, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1997 Oklahoma City Memorial Competition, Oklahoma City, OK
1996 Issues, Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA
1996 Artists at Esterwood, Dobbs Ferry, NY
1995 A Grand Affair, 420 West Broadway, New York, NY
1994 Art Initiatives: Mass Exposure, New York, NY
1994 Accidental Tourist, Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Alumni Exhibition, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Art Initiatives: Salon ’92, Gallery 148, New York, NY
1987 Volume Two, Independent Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1984 Art Alarm, 2nd and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA
COLLECTIONS
CCW Group, Ardmore, PA
Citizen’s Bank, Philadelphia, PA
McGraw Hill, New York, NY
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, New York, NY
Reader’s Digest Association/Lyla Acheson Wallace Collection, Pleasantville, NY
Standard & Poors, New York, NY
US Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Wyeth Laboratories, Radnor, PA
Wyndham Hotels, Dallas, TX