ABOUT JAYNIE GILLMAN CRIMMINS
Jaynie Gillman Crimmins, a New York City based artist, creates alternative narratives from quotidian materials. Her work has been shown at ART on PAPER NYC; and exhibited at the Sharjah Museum of Art during the Islamic Arts Festival in the United Arab Emirates; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC; Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC; the National Museum of Romanian Literature in addition to museums throughout the United States including the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, VA; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, GA.
Crimmins has a long history of community work. Prior to the pandemic, she was volunteering in the Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art Program. She holds two degrees in Art Education - a BS from the State University College at Buffalo and MS from the College of New Rochelle, with a minor in Art Therapy. She is represented by K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA and Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta, GA and shows with the Front Room Gallery and SFA Flat File Gallery in NYC.
Jaynie Gillman Crimmins Artist Statement
In Search of Beauty is a body of work that contains fragments of information or imagery from mass marketing tools promoting the constructs of beauty, wealth and taste. In Search of Beauty physically dismantles and deconstructs these conventions, rearranging them as repeated elements in patterns. The work is inspired by plant forms, architectural details, and geometric applications of design, advancing my interpretation of beauty.