Jenny Brillhart’s paintings, installations, and photos are informed by her surroundings both found and created. She is interested in the structure and function of often overlooked material. Many ideas arise through a studio-based building and arranging routine using objects and photographs. The content often references art making, domesticity, and construction. By creating stilled moments through three-dimensional object placement, the commonly understood job of something may be altered. Use of time-lapse photography captures what could be missed and draws the day. Tools like rulers, cameras, brushes and prints often leave their mark. Physical space, light, time, and material are constant participants in the making and display. Process and flexibility allow for unexpected moments.
The paintings derived from built set-ups, further consider composition and cropping and their subjects’ relationship to paint. The paint is sculptural as well; it’s anatomy in plain view. This movement and manipulation of mediums reveal attempts to control and create content through form, light, and structure.
Jenny Brillhart was born 1972 in Keene, New Hampshire. She received a BFA from Smith College in Northhampton, MA. She then went on to study at The Art Students League, NY and in 2003 she graduated from The New York Academy of Art with an MFA in painting. Jenny has shown widely in the U.S. and Europe. She lives and works in Blue Hill, Maine.
EDUCATIONÂ
2003 MFA, New York Academy of Art, cum laude, New York, NY
2001 The Art Students League, New York, NYÂ
1994 BA Smith College, Northhampton, MA
 SOLO EXHIBITIONSÂ
2023
Placement, The Zillman Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2022Â
Room for, Dowling Walsh Gallery Rockland, ME
Object Hours, Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery Berlin, Germany
2021
Housekeeping, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2020
Shaded Ground, Dowling and Walsh, Rockland, ME
2019Â
Floor Matters, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME
Selectmen’s Office, Dowling and Walsh, Rockland, ME
2018Â
Where the Rubber Meets the Road, Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015Â
Overcast, Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014Â
Noonday, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Flat Prospects, Fringe Projects public works, The History Museum, Miami, FL
2013Â
An Extra Space, Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011Â
Material, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Lot Lines, Alice & William Jenkins Gallery, Winter Park, FL
2010Â
North Miami Court – Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009Â
New Work, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2008
Hotel Continental, Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006
Saxony Interiors, Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005
Exteriors, The Art Gallery at Government Center, Miami, FL
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
Temporality, with Sara Stites, CMCA, Rockland, ME
2015
Pulse Art Fair,two-person show with Frances Twombly, Miami Beach, FL
Stilled Practice, Pascal Hall, two person show Sara Stites, Rockport, ME
2013
Accumulation, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Cut Outs, 2 person show, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONSÂ
2023
Interior, Curated by R. Romanski and T. Peterson, CMCA (Center for Maine Contemporary Art), Rockland ME
2022
When in Maine, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
XX, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY, NY
2020Â
Taste of a Cinder Block, Curated by Aaron Stephan, Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME
Between the Legible and the Opaque, Curated by Adler Guerrier, Audrey Love Gallery, Miami, FL
2019Â
2019 de Cordova Biennial, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Fragment, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, April 2019 (Critics’ Pick in Art Forum)
2018Â
Art Miami, Kuckei + Kuckei, Miami, FL
Viewfinders, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
Atmosphere, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
2016Â
Smash & Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2015Â
Miami Cityscapes, Frost Museum of Science, Miami, FL
Smash & Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2014 -2015
ART 30, Art Center 30 Year Retrospective, Miami Beach, FL
2014Â
Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
 2013Â
Online Resident, April-July, The Frost Museum, Miami, Florida, 2013
2012
Let’s Begin With A Line, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Unit, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Potential Amendments, Art Center South Florida Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
ARCO Madrid, Project with Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2012
Stillstehende Sachen, Sammlung SØR Rusche zu Gast im Museum Abtei Liesborn
Pulse Art Fair, Miami, with Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin
2011Â
Faculty Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2010
Good and Plenty, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
New Work Miami, PAMM, Curated by Rene Morales and Peter Boswell, Miami, FL
Florida Contemporary 2010, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
A Flawed Providence, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
HONORS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2021 Â Ellis Beaureguard Residency Oct. and Nov. , Rockland, ME
2012  Legal Art CSA Project Winner, Miami, FL
2005 Â Chestler Foundation Grant Winner, Miami FL
2003 Â Vermont Studio Center, Grant winner. Resident in January, Johnson, VT
BIBLIOGRAPHYÂ
Art New England Magazine – Review of Placement at Zillman Art Museum by Carl Little, Winter 2023
The Portland Press Herald – Review of CMCA show Interior by Jorge Arango, featured photo, Oct. 2022
The Gettysburg Review, Featured artwork, 2021
The Portland Press Herald – Work at Corey Daniels Gallery with Claire Seidl by Jorge Arango/Arts writer, Oct 2021
Art Forum – Critics’ Pick, Fragment, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, April 2019
Selectmen’s Office, show at Dowling Walsh, reviewed by Dan Cany in the Portland Press Herald
deCordova Biennial 2019 Review by Murry White/Arts writer, in the Boston Globe
The Miami Herald Review of Meetinghouse. November 28, 2014
Noonday Review in the Miami Rail by Hunter Braithwaite, March 2014
Huffington Post Must See Shows for April by Steven Zevitas, March 2014Â
Ocean Drive Magazine: Brillhart Builds a Better Painting, by Brett Sokol, Summer 2012
Orlando Weekly, Lot Lines Review by Richard Reep, March 2011
Brillhart Paintings, 2004-2009, BAP, Winter 2009
The McKinsey Quarterly, Fall 2008
New American Paintings, Summer quarter 2008
INFORADIO, Interview, Berlin, Germany, March 2008
The Financial Times, Germany, April 2008
Miami Contemporary Artists, by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, 2007
New American Paintings, Summer quarter 2007
Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, Germany, Summer 2006
Sunpost, Miami Beach, FL, 2003
SELECTED COLLECTIONSÂ
Keith Flaherty
Jeremy Chestler
Upstairs Studio
Nick Brownlee,
Robin T. and Stuart Ray
Joachim Schloesser
Loren Roberts
Brooke Feder
Fifty Cent
TEACHING EXPERIENCEÂ
Mentor for Blue Hill Peninsula High School students through Haystack, Oil painting
2019 Â Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Painting instruction during summer residency
2009-2012 Â New World School of the Arts, Adjunct Painting Instructor, Teaching at a magnet high
school dedicated to students specifically interested in the arts. Figure drawing and painting, still life
painting, portfolio development, history of art, and independent projects all practiced.
2009-2010 Â University of Miami, Adjunct Painting Instructor, Figure drawing and painting, still life
and landscape painting, portfolio development, history of art, and independent projects all practiced.
2003-2005 Â Art Center South Florida, Painting/Drawing Instructor. Taught and mentored teens and adults. Figure drawing and painting, still life painting, color mixing, value scale all highlighted.
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