Penelope Jencks

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Vitae:
199 Boundbrook Island, Wellfleet, MA 02667
175 Parker St, Newton MA 02459

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected list):

2006 Retrospective, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (AICA/NE Second place Award for Best Monographic Show in a University Gallery – Boston Area)

2006 “Beach Series II” Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA

2006 “Beach Series II” List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

2006 “Small Bronzes” Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1985 “Monumental Fragments”, Helen Schlein Gallery, Boston, MA

1981 “Beach Series I”, Landmark Gallery, New York City, NY

1981 “Beach Series I”, Helen Schlein Gallery, Boston MA

1978 “Lifesize Terracottas”, Art Institute of Boston, Boston MA

1977 “Lifesize Terracottas”, Landmark Gallery, New York NY

1976 “Lifesize Terracottas, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg,MA


COMMISSIONS (selected list):

2007 “Robert Frost” Amherst College, Amherst, MA

1996 “Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial”, Riverside Park, New York, NY

1992 “Family Group” Readers Digest Corporate Headquarters, Pleasantville, NY

1986 “Danbury Family” Art in Public Spaces, Courthouse, Danbury CT

1986 “Student”, Farber Library, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1984 “Family” Portside Festival Park, Toledo Ohio. (Henry Hering Memorial Medal, for outstanding
collaboration between Architect & Sculptor)

1982 “Samuel Eliot Morison” Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA

1978 “Chelsea Conversation” Chelsea, MA


AWARDS

2007 Fifth Annual AICA (International Association of Art Critics) New England Award

2005 Agop Agopoff Prize for Sculpture, National Academy of Design

2001 Meisner Prize for Sculpture, National Academy of Design

1998 Fellowship, Bogliasco Foundation, Centro Studi Ligure, April-May

1991 “Distinguished Alumni Award” School of Visual Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA

1988 Henry Hering Memorial Medal & Prize for Outstanding Cooperation between Architect & Sculptor” National Sculpture Society

1987, ‘75, ‘76, ‘78 MacDowell Colony Residencies, Peterborough, NH

1983 “The Family; Nude, Naked & Monumental”, Brandeis University

1981 “Commendation for Design Excellence”, National Endowment for the Arts

1977 Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected list):

2007, ‘05, ‘01 & 1999National Academy of Design, New York, NY

2004 Museo Luigi Malle, Dronero (CN) Italy

2002 “Sculptor’s Drawings” Andrews Gallery, College of William & Mary, Williamsburgh, VA

2002 Il Quadrato, Galleria Associazione Culturale, Chieri, Italia

1998 “Stages of Creation: Public Sculpture by National Academician”, NAD, NY

1998 “Maquette to Monument: Eleanor Roosevelt”, National Sculpture Society

1996 “Becoming Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early Years 1884- 1933”, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY

1982 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1980 “Receipients of Awards in Sculpture”, Massachusetts

Artists Foundation, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston MA

1974 “Living American Artists & the Figure”, Penn. State University Museum of Art, University PA

1974 “14 Aspects of Realism”, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA

1966 “Young Talent” Massachusetts Council on Arts & Humanities, Boston, MA

1966 National Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY

COLLECTIONS (selected list):

Decordova Museum& Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA

Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA

The White House, Washington DC

National Academy of Design, New York, NY

Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

The City of New York

The City of Boston

The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA

The Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY

City of Toledo, OH

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Roosevelt University, Chicago IL

Memphis Botanic Garden, Memphis, TN

Bibliotecca di Pietrasanta (LU), Italy

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected list):

2006 “Sculptures that stand up to scrutiny, Jencks examines human vulnerability in her large terra cotta and plaster works” by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, March 23, 2006

2006 Penelope Jencks by Ellen Lebow, Cape Cod Voice, Orleans, MA, June, 2006

2006 Penelope Jencks by Anne Cook, Banner, Provincetown, MA, May 22, 2006

2001 “Ritratti d’artista: Penelope Jencks” by Gianfranco Schialvino, UTZ, vol 2, Sept. ‘01

2001 “Beach Series II, Disrobing Woman” Xilografia in SMENS, Torino, Italia

1996 Ex - First Lady’s Latest First: Statue in New York City Park, The New York Times,
Metro Section, Saturday, October 5, 1996

1996 “Penelope Jencks’ Eleanor Roosevelt” by Eleanor Munroe, Provincetown Arts Magazine,
Summer, 1996

1995 “Wellfleet Sculptor Distills Essence of Eleanor Roosevelt” by Joyce Johnson, Cape Codder, December 1995

1994 “Mrs Roosevelt, Eight Feet Tall”, by Philip Hamburger, The New Yorker,
October, 1994, Vol LXX no.34

1983 “Penelope Jencks; Sculpture” by Blair Birmelin, The Massachusetts Review, Summer ‘83

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

National Academy of Design

Royal British Society of Sculptors

National Sculpture Society

Represented by the Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA