Jan Groover
Jan Groover | |
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Born | |
Died | January 1, 2012 | (aged 68)
Nationality | American |
Education | Pratt Institute, Ohio State University |
Known for | Photography |
Jan Groover (April 24, 1943 – January 1, 2012) was an American photographer. She received numerous one-person shows, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which holds some of her work in its permanent collection.
Early life
Groover was born and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey.
She studied painting and drawing at Pratt Institute.[1] She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1965 from Pratt Institute, and a Master of Arts in Education in 1970 from Ohio State University.[2]
Photographic career
Her first large-format camera was bought immediately after winning a 1978 grant from the
Groover also used early 20th century camera technology, such as the banquet camera, for elongated, horizontal presentations of otherwise pedestrian items. In a New York Times review of her work exhibited at Janet Borden Inc., New York, in 1997, critic Roberta Miller called Groover's work "beautiful and masterly in the extreme."[5]
Groover's work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1987, for which an accompanying catalogue was printed. Her work has also been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.[citation needed]
Groover was the subject of a short film by photographer Tina Barney entitled (Jan Groover: Tilting at Space, 1994).
Groover and her husband, a painter and critic named Bruce Boice, left the United States and moved to Montpon-Ménestérol, France in 1991. She had felt demoralized by what she felt was a turn toward deep political conservatism in the United States. On this occasion, Groover purchased a larger camera and shifted her work from still-life photographs of everyday objects to photos of her surroundings in France, including landscapes, churches, and graveyards.[3]
She died in 2012, having been ill for some time.
Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1978[citation needed]
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978[6]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1983[citation needed]
Publications
- New York: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, 1983.
- Groover, Jan. Jan Groover: Photographs. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
- Kismaric, Susan and Jan Groover. Jan Groover. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987.
- Groover, Jan. Pure Invention—The Tabletop Still Life. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
- Groover, Jan. Jan Groover: Photographs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
- Franck, Tatyana, ed. Jan Groover, Photographer: Laboratory of Forms. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess; Lausanne: Musée de l’Elysée, 2019. Accompanies the related exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, September 18, 2019 – January 5, 2020.[7]
Exhibitions
- Light Gallery, New york City, 1974[citation needed]
- Max Protech Gallery, 1976[citation needed]
- Time and Information 1975 (group exhibition)[citation needed]
- Three on Technology: Photographs by Robert Cumming, Lee Friedlander, and Jan Grover, May 7 – June 26, 1988, MIT, Boston, MA;[citation needed] May 7 – June 26, 1989 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA[8]
- Jan Groover : Recent Still Life Photography, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, N.W Washington D.C., April 28 – May 29, 1993[9]
- Jan Groover Color Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum Photography Gallery, November 13, 1980 – January 11, 1981[citation needed]
- Retrospectives, Museum of Modern Art, New York[10]
- Jan Groover Laboratory of forms, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France, November 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Collections
Groover's work is held in the permanent collections of the
References
- OCLC 23017651.
- ^ "Artist Biographies, The Cleveland Museum of Art". Archived from the original on December 4, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
- ^ a b Jan Groover, Postmodern Photographer, Dies at 68. The New York Times. Accessed August 31, 2016.
- ^ "Photography View; Taming Unruly Reality." The New York Times. Accessed January 7, 2012.
- ^ "Exhibition Review", The New York Times. Accessed January 7, 2012.
- ^ "Guggenheim Foundation Announces 1978 Awards". The New York Times. 2 April 1978.
- OCLC 1109769008.)
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- ^ Nancy Drysdale Gallery promotional flyer (Jan Grover Artist File, VMFA Library)
- ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ^ "Amon Carter Museum of American Art". Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ^ "Jan Groover". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ "Jan Groover: Untitled (#75.4)". mfah.org.