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Jul 12, 2019 · Candy Jernigan. By Johanna Fateman. July 12, 2019. The artist, who died in 1991, at the age of thirty-nine, is best known as a taxonomist of the Lower East Side who used the crack vials, drug...
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May 21, 2014 · Art is Life. I was introduced to Candy Jernigan's art and book when I was going through cancer treatment more than a decade ago. Her meticulously arranged collages, paintings, and drawings have had a profound impact on the way I view art, life, and visual storytelling.
Jun 27, 2019 · The late and forever great Candy Jernigan (1952–1991) had a thing for the discarded and defiled, be it pop-tops, moist cigar butts, or a rat’s carcass. The artist, who lived in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, sourced the materials for her collages and drawings from the filthy, crime-addled streets right outside her studio door.
Candy Jernigan, A Couple of Pencils and Some Paper, 2017; installation view, Wattis Institute. Courtesy of the Candy Jernigan Estate and Greene Naftali Gallery. Photo by Johnna Arnold.
The show’s must-see centerpiece will be the collected final works Jernigan produced before her death, “Untitled (vessels),” ca. 1990–91, a series of delicate bowls and jugs on watercolor-washed grounds that has only been exhibited once before.
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Greene Naftali is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of work by Candy Jernigan (b. 1952 – 1991). This will be the artist’s first comprehensive show in New York City. The exhibition at Greene Naftali focuses on the work Jernigan produced in the East Village during the late-1980s.
