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Joyce Pensato, Untitled (Donald), 1994

Joyce Pensato

Untitled (Donald), 1994

Signed and dated on the stretcher on the back.

Enamel on canvas

89 3/4 x 71 1/2 inches
228 x 182 cm

(PEN 21/010)

Joyce Pensato -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.

Joyce Pensato (b. 1941, Brooklyn, NY, d. 2019, New York, NY) lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York and studied at the New York Studio School. Pensato was best known for her large-scale paintings which employed a familiar cast of cartoon characters, including Homer Simpson, Groucho Marx, Mickey Mouse, and a character the artist called “The Juicer.” Pensato was commited to her baleful transmutation of American cartoon culture - employing her fast, assured, and gestural hand- to shed light on the arguable darkness lurking within our familiar Pop iconography.

Joyce Pensato was the recipient of many awards including The Robert de Niro, Sr. Prize (2013); The Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012); Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2010); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1997; Guggenheim Fellowship (1996); New York Foundation for the Arts (1995); and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation (1992).

Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions and projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2017); Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2016); Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX (2015); and Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA (2013), which traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO the same year.  Group exhibitions include the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY (2011); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2000) and the St. Louis Art Museum, MO (1994).

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Dallas Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France.

I Killed Kenny, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, 2017  Installation view

I Killed Kenny, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, 2017

Installation view

Foster Mural: Joyce Pensato, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2015-2016  Installation view

Foster Mural: Joyce Pensato, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2015-2016

Installation view

Joyce Pensato: Castaway, Petzel Gallery, 2015, Installation view

Joyce Pensato: Castaway, Petzel Gallery, 2015

Installation view

Joyce Pensato: Castaway, Petzel Gallery, 2015  Installation view

Joyce Pensato: Castaway, Petzel Gallery, 2015

Installation view

Focus: Joyce Pensato, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2015   Installation view

Focus: Joyce Pensato, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2015

 Installation view

I Killed Kenny, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2013  Installation view

I Killed Kenny, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2013

Installation view