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Jenny Saville

Jennifer Anne Saville RA (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.

Early life and education

Saville was born on 7 May 1970 in Cambridge, England. Saville went to the Lilley and Stone School (now The Newark Academy) in Newark, Nottinghamshire, for her secondary education, later gaining her degree at Glasgow School of Art (1988–1992), and was then awarded a six-month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati where she enrolled in a course in women's studies.

Work

At the end of Saville's undergraduate education, the leading British art collector, Charles Saatchi, purchased her degree exhibition. He offered the artist an 18-month contract, supporting her while she created new works to be exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery in London. The collection, Young British Artists III, exhibited in 1994 with Saville's self-portrait, Plan (1993), as the signature piece. Rising quickly to critical and public recognition and emerging as part of the Young British Artists (YBA) scene, Saville has been noted for creating art through the use of a classical standard—figure painting, but with a contemporary approach.

Since her debut in 1992, Saville's focus has remained on the female body. She has stated, "I'm drawn to bodies that emanate a sort of state of in-betweeness: hermaphrodite, a transvestite, a carcass, a half-alive/half-dead head." In 1994, Saville spent many hours observing plastic surgery operations in New York City. Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states, and transgender patients. Much of her work features distorted flesh, high-caliber brush strokes, and patches of oil color, while others reveal the surgeon's mark of a plastic surgery operation or white "target" rings. Her paintings are usually much larger than life-size, usually six-by-six feet or more. They are strongly pigmented and give a highly sensual impression of the surface of the skin as well as the mass of the body. Saville's post-painterly style has been compared to that of Lucian Freud and Rubens.

Album Covers

In 1994, Saville's painting Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face) appeared on the cover of Manic Street Preachers' third album The Holy Bible.

Saville's painting Stare (2005) was used for the cover of the Manics' 2009 album Journal for Plague Lovers. The top four UK supermarkets stocked the CD in a plain slipcase, after the cover was deemed "inappropriate". The band's James Dean Bradfield said the decision was "utterly bizarre", and commented:

Exhibitions

-In 1993, Cooling Gallery, London, UK (when Saatchi bought all her works).

-In 1994, "Young British Artists III", Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.

-In 1996, "Contemporary British Art '96", Museum of Kalmar, Stockholm, Sweden.

-In 1996, "A Collaboration", in collaboration with Glen Luchford, Pace/McGill Gallery, New York, US.

-In 1997, 'Sensation', Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (brought Saville's work to the attention of the British public at large).

-In 1999, "Territories", Gagosian Gallery, New York (SoHo), US. (first major solo exhibit)

-In 2002, "Closed Contact", in collaboration with Glen Luchford, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, US.

-In 2003, "Migrants", Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea), US.

-In 2004, Large Scale Polaroids by Jenny Saville and Glen Luchford, University of Massachusetts Amherst, East Gallery.

-In 2005, Solo Exhibition, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome.

-In 2006, the inaugural exhibition, Museo Carlo Billoti, Rome, Italy.

-In 2010, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK.

Reference

-Cohen, Alina (11 October 2018). "Jenny Saville Changed the Way We View the Female Form". Artsy. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
-Hudson, Mark (24 June 2014). "Jenny Saville: 'I like the down and dirty side of things'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
 -Rogers, Georgie & O'Doherty, Lucy. "Supermarkets cover up Manics CD ". BBC News, 2009. Retrieved on 28 June 2009.
-Rogers, Georgie; O'Doherty, Lucy (14 May 2009). "BBC News | Entertainment | Supermarkets Cover Up Manics CD". BBC News. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
-"Best Art Vinyl 2009 Winners". Art Vinyl. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2010.Chester's complete trotting and pacing record - containing summaries of all races trotted or paced in the United States or Canada, from the earliest dates to the close of 1883 (IA chesterscomplete84ches).pdf