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Jenny Okun - Photographic Compositions of Architectural Diversity The works of American artist Jenny Okun bring together two positions of modern aesthetics  – cubism and architectural photography. The image series she creates are… Read more

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Jenny Okun - Photographic Compositions of Architectural Diversity

The works of American artist Jenny Okun bring together two positions of modern aesthetics  – cubism and architectural photography. The image series she creates are compositions of multiple shots of the architecture of specific buildings. The photographic technique alone ensures the extraordinary nature of these remarkably abstract pictures, which combine both aesthetic design and analytical vision across the image space.
By bringing together overlapping shots of architecture on a film strip, Okun creates a continuum of piercing abstract geometric forms and surfaces. As with her illustrious role models Picasso, Braque, Gris and Leger, the image content is divided up into diverse cubist perspectives and is then transformed into pure abstraction through the medium’s transparency and powerful aesthetic. The emphasis on graphics and the dynamic combination of simple geometric forms is reminiscent of the Suprematism images. By using architecture to generate her images and give them an energetic form, Okun is following in a rich tradition of art history. It was Le Corbusier, after all, who first transformed the transparency and powerful aesthetic of cubism into modern architecture.

Stephan Reisner

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1953	Born in the USA
1971	Studied painting, photography, and filmmaking at Wimbledon School of Art, Chelsea School of Art and Slade School of Art, USA
	Studios in London, UK and Los Angeles, USA

Exhibitions

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Solo Exhibitions

2012	Craig Krull, Santa Monica, USA
	Museo Storico della Citta di Lecce (MUST), Lecce, Italy
2009	Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco, USA
2008	Art First, London, UK
	Building 98 : Grubb & Ellis, Marfa, Texas, USA
	Hennessey + Ingalls : Art and Architecture Bookstore, Santa Monica, USA
2007	Craig Krull "Studio Walls" and Book Signing, Santa Monica, USA
	The Colburn School, Los Angeles, USA
2006	Don Giovanni, El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood, USA
	the architectural photography of Jenny Okun on the sets by Yael Pardess, El Dorado Opera, Los Angeles, USA
2005	Craig Krull, Santa Monica, USA
	Art First, London, UK
2004	Kashya Hildebrand, New York, USA und Geneva, Switzerland
	Craig Krull, Santa Monica, USA
2002	Art First, London, UK
	Durst Organization, kuratiert von Claudia Carr, NYC, USA
	BC Space, Laguna Beach California, USA
2001	Craig Krull, Santa Monica, USA
	Numark Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2000	Claudia Carr, New York, USA
	Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, USA

Group Exhibitions

2012	Film: London/Cape Wrath/London, Open City Docs Festival, London UK
	Film: Still Life, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2011	Skydreamers, Autry Museum, Griffiths Park Los Angeles, USA
	Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
	Film: Waves, South London Gallery, UK
2010	Randall Scott, Brooklyn, New York, USA
	Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2009	Craig Krull, Santa Monica, USA
2007	Art First, London, UK
2004	Summer Show, Kashya Hildebrand, New York, USA and Geneva, Switzerland
2002	Artists Show, Numark Gallery, Washington DC, USA
	Show Walls, Durst Oranization, New York, USA
	ooparts II, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, USA
	BC Space, Laguna Beach, USA
2001	Gensler Associates, Santa Monica, USA