Jennifer White Kuri

 Based in Los Angeles, CA
Born in Syracuse, NY
BA, University of California, Berkeley
MA, Painting, University of California, Berkeley

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About the Artist

Storytelling through the visual medium of art is inspired by personal life moments and something that infatuates me. Having worked with Christo and Jean-Claude on the Running Fence project thirty years ago, I have long appreciated the conceptual underpinnings and the importance of process in an artistic project that exists within a social sphere. Though I was a protégé of Joan Brown during my U.C. Berkeley graduate study, it was her teacher, the equally renowned Bay Area Figurative master Elmer Bischoff, who encouraged my “diaristic” approach in painting. Overcoming the two-dimensional reality of the canvas to encompass the story, altering and reconfiguring people and objects -- the details of their lives -- allows me to represent the quirkiness between the lines. The space between the abstract and the representational is where my art thrives. I am brazen about pattern and bold with color using both aggressively and expressively in color combinations. Surface and material considerations are deliberate and inform how I choreograph the interplay of the paints on the canvas and the multi-dimensional articulation of my subjects. With technology’s “globalization” of culture, and the digital techniques impacting the world of all things visual, my roots in painting have now grown to incorporate electronic, including social, media elements, and installation as can be seen throughout my Global Women Project series.

The Global Women Project was interviewed for Whitewall Magazine. Click here to read the article.

News

SOTHEBYS INSTITUTE OF ART
Designing an Art Center
(Clubhouse:August 26,2021) 

BLUFFINGTON PACKET
“‘Global” art project has a Lowcountry connection”
(Bluffington: June 1, 2016) 

INSTALLATION MAGAZINE 
"Global Women Project: Portraits of Change, Women Making a Difference" 
Issue 21 
(Los Angeles: September 9, 2013)

INSTALLATION MAGAZINE 
“ICASTICA 1, The 2013 Project: Glocal Women” 
Install: Issue 20 
(Los Angeles: August 9, 2013)

AREZZO NOTIZIE 
“Le Donne di ICASTICA al Lavoro: Jennifer White Kuri” 
(Arezzo: June 3, 2013)

LA REPUBBLICA 
“ICASTICA, la Biennale d’arte e donna” 
(Rome: May 31, 2013) 

Coagula Radio, September 2011
Live Radio Interview

Solo Exhibition, October 2010
"Global Women Project: First Portrayals"
Los Angeles, CA

Angeleno Magazine E-newsletter, August 2011

Whitewall Magazine, June 2011 
"Global Women Project"

Artweek, June, 2009
"Herstory" at the Napa Valley Museum

Newport Beach Film Festival Interview, April, 2009 
Newport Beach, CA

San Francisco Chronicle, April, 2009
"Herstory", Paintings Celebrating Women's History Month

Contra Costa Times, April, 2009
"Herstory" at the Napa Valley Museum

California Home+Design, April 2009
"Reception for Herstory at Napa Valley Museum

The Reporter, Vacaville, April, 2009
Herstory, In Celebration of Women's History Month

The Sacramento Bee, March, 2009
Herstory, in Celebration of Women's History Month

Art Basel Miami Magazine, December, 2006
Jennifer White Kuri, recently exhibited at LACMA, was one of the inspirational forces behind Art Basel's moving to Miami six years ago. She remains among the fair's biggest supporters.

Santa Monica Daily Press, December 29, 2006
Artists emerge in SoCal LACMA to host reception for artist Jenifer White Kuri

The Malibu Times
Zuma Beach still the target spot for Malibu Green Machine Jennifer White Kuri presents designs for Malibu Beach project