Jennifer Guidi (b. 1972, Redondo Beach, California) draws from several lineages, including the visionary Modernism of the American Southwest, process-oriented minimalism, Light and Space, lyrical West Coast abstraction, and the many strains of art throughout the globe in which intense optical patterning is a driving force. Her work is also inspired by––and generates––meditative states of looking in which boundaries between the outside world and internally visualized spaces break down. Guidi makes images of what it means and feels like to see, whether this is understood to be a physical or metaphysical phenomenon. Rather than rely on the eye alone, she produces tactile surfaces in which sand, acrylic and oil mediums, and pigment are combined. The particulate nature of this mixture is reflected in her imagery, often comprised of boundless arrays of small marks arranged in radiating systems.
Jennifer Guidi has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Museo Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy (2017) and LAXART, Los Angeles (2014). Recent group exhibitions include One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018); Generations: Female Artists in Dialogue, Part I, Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2018); Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2017); No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (2016) and Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015); and The Afghan Carpet Project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among other institutions. Guidi lives and works in Los Angeles.
Jennifer Guidi
All Or Nothing (Diptych: Painted Red Sand SF #1H, Hot Pink / Black #4 MT, White Sand SF #1H, Yellow Ground), 2018
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
overall:
60 x 96 x 1 1/2 inches
(152.4 x 243.8 x 3.8 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Hot and Bothered (Black Sand SF #1T, Yellow-Hot Pink-Orange Gradient Ground, Black), 2018
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
65 7/8 x 76 x 1 3/4 inches
(167.3 x 193 x 4.4 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Capitol Creek B (Green Sand SF #2G Mandala, Green Ground), 2017
sand and acrylic on linen
116 x 98 x 1 1/2 inches
(294.6 x 248.9 x 3.8 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
As I Drove You Stretched (Painted Sand SF #1P, Orange Sky), 2017
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
76 x 232 x 2 inches
(193 x 589.3 x 5.1 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Sun In Gemini (Universe Mandala SF #2G, Yellow, Black Sand), 2017
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
116 x 98 x 2 inches
(294.6 x 248.9 x 5.1 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Rainbow Orb (Painted White Sand SF #1B, Natural Ground, Rainbow), 2017
sand and acrylic on linen
34 x 27 inches
(86.4 x 68.6 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
White Rainbow A (Painted White Sand SF #3F, Natural Ground, White and Rainbow), 2017
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
92 x 74 inches
(233.7 x 188 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
VC Pink-Purple (White Sand #5 Mandala, Pink and Purple), 2017
sand and acrylic on board
6 1/4 x 5 inches
(15.9 x 12.7 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Light In Light Out (Painted Yellow Sand SF #1E, Yellow and Orange), 2016
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
76 x 58 x 1 3/4 inches
(193 x 147.3 x 4.4 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Purple Rain (Painted Pink Sand SF #2F, Purple CS), 2016
sand, acrylic, and oil on linen
92 x 74 inches
(233.7 x 188 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Untitled (White, Red & Black, Field 1a), 2015
oil on linen
76 x 58 inches
(193 x 147.3 cm)
Jennifer Guidi
Untitled (Field #11 Black and White), 2014
oil on linen
76 x 58 inches
(193 x 147.3 cm)