FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA
The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is proud to present "Aquarium," an exhibition by acclaimed photographers Len Jenshel and Diane Cook. This exhibition coincides with the publication of their book "Aquarium" published by Aperture books. The exhibition runs from January 10th through February 8th, 2004.
For the past quarter century Len Jenshel and Diane Cook have been involved with the appearance and perception of landscape, most notably the juncture between nature and culture. In the interior world of public aquariums their concerns shifted slightly to include the topography of the fantastic and the artificial. Aquatic displays provide the viewer with a window into a mysterious world of wonderment that we do not encounter in our daily lives. There is the fascination of the need for humans to collect and contain, but also the impulse to neatly package nature.
Jenshel and Cook are intrigued by boundaries. There is, of course, the literal boundary of plexiglas that separates the pleasures and terrors on the inside of the tank from the security and comfort outside; at least that’s how we see it (a fish out of water may have a different point of view). There is also the metaphoric boundary where the glass is the curtain, the aquarium a theater and the drama is acted on both sides of the proscenium. The third boundary is the most important to the artists; the blurring of the boundaries between the real, the unreal, and the ideal.
As artists Len Jenshel and Diane Cook work intuitively, stay attuned to possibilities and collaborate with chance. In addition, they work with one another. But what sets their collaboration apart is that Jenshel’s vision is color while Cook’s is black and white. This counterpoint produces a unique dialogue; sometimes harmonious, sometimes jarring, and sometimes humorous. It’s a collaboration that accentuates the contrasts between description and abstraction, reality and artifice, truth and fiction.
Signed copies of Len Jenshel & Diane Cook's book, Aquarium, are available. Please call gallery.
GRANTS
2003 New York State Council on the Arts
2002 Design Trust for Public Space (Photo Urbanism Grant)
1988 Graham Foundation for the Advancement in the Fine Arts
1980 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1978 National Endowment for the Arts
1978 CAPS (Creative Arts Public Service, NYSCA)
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
Mar, 2004 Aquarium
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jan, 2004 Aquarium
Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York, NY
Nov, 2003 Aquarium
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Oct, 2001 Charmed Places
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Oct, 2000 Full Tank: An In Depth Look at Aquariums
Aspen Gallery of Photography, Aspen, CO
Mar, 1999 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle WA
May, 1997 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
May, 1997 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dec, 1996 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Chandler Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Oct, 1996 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Oct, 1995 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Yokohama Museum, Yokohama, Japan
Jul, 1993 Travels in the American West
Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Aug, 1992 Travels in the American West
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Mar, 1991 Unlimited Mileage: Travels in the American West
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Aug, 1989 Desert Photographs
Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
Mar, 1989 Desert Photographs
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Dec, 1988 Charmed Places - Hudson River School Artists
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Apr, 1988 Charmed Places - Hudson River School Artists
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Nov, 1987 Desert Places
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Apr, 1987 True Stories
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Nov, 1986 Real Pictures from True Stories
Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston, SC
Apr, 1986 The Outer from the Inner
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep, 1984 The Outer from the Inner
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Jan, 1984 Mansions: Era of Extravagance
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Mar, 1983 Era of Extravagance
ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Oct, 1982 Mansions in Public Trust
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Jun, 1982 A Show of Wealth
Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne, Germany
Jun, 1980 Len Jenshel - Photographs
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
Apr, 1980 Coastline Photographs
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Miami Dade College Gallery, Miami, FL
Jan, 2006 On Ice
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Dec, 2005 Contemporary Desert Photography
IMPGEH (George Eastman House), Rochester, NY
Apr, 2004 Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Apr, 2004 Altered Landscapes
Norsk Museum for Fotografi, Oslo, Norway
Nov, 2002 Altered Landscapes
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
Nov, 2002 On the Waterfront
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Oct, The Altered Landscapes
Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY
May, 1999 Down From Up: Views From On High
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
May, 1999 Under Construction
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
Dec, 1998 Icebergs
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Jan, 1998 Fotografs of Flowers
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Sep, 1997 Under the Dark Cloth
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sep, 1996 Crossing the Frontier: the Developing West
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Jun, 1996 Perpetual Mirage: Narratives of the Desert West
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, NM
Apr, 1996 Truths and Trials: Color Photography Since 1975
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Jul, 1995 H 2 O: Contemporary & Vintage Images of Water
National Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Oct, 1992 Between Home and Heaven
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
May, 1991 Pop Goes America
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Jan, 1990 Money Matters, History of Bank Architecture
National Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Mar, 1990 Money Matters, History of Bank Architecture
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec
Jun, 1990 Money Matters, History of Bank Architecture
All Union Center of Photography, Moscow, USSR
Mar, 1989 American Photography in USSR
Lvov Museum of Ukrainian Art, Lvov, USSR
Jan, 1989 American Photography in USSR
Jinan Art Museum, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
Aug, 1988 Current Trends in American Photography
The Cultural Palace, Canton, China
Jul, 1988 Current Trends in American Photography
Fotografisk Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun, 1988 The New Color:Ten American Photographers
Museet Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Apr, 1988 The New Color:Ten American Photographers
Fotografi 87 Festival, Oslo, Norway
Jan, 1988 The New Color:Ten American Photographers
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Jan, 1988 Road & Roadside
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Jun, 1987 Road & Roadside
Koln Messe Photokina, Cologne, Germany
Sep, 1986 Photokina
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Sep, 1985 Portraits & Architecture
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Sep, 1985 New Color/New Work
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Nov, 1983 High Light : The Mountain in Photography
Addison Gallery American Art, Andover, MA
Sep, 1982 Place: New England Perambulations
IMPGEH (George Eastman House), Rochester, NY
Jul, 1982 History of Color Photography
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Apr, 1982 History of Color Photography
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Jun, 1982 The Column - Structure and Ornament
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Oct, 1981 The New Color Photography
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, England
Sep, 1981 New American Colour Photography
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
Jul, 1981 Love is Blind
MONOGRAPHS
Aquarium
Photographs by Diane Cook & Len Jenshel
Aperture, New York, NY 2003
Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country
Text by John Beardsley / Photographs by Len Jenshel
Spacemaker Press, Washington, DC & Cambridge, MA 1998
Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Photographs by Diane Cook & Len Jenshel
Bulfinch Press, Little Brown & Co., Boston, MA 1996
Travels in the American West / Photographers at Work
Photographs by Len Jenshel
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC 1992
Charmed Places: Hudson River School Artists & Their Homes
Text by Sandra Phillips / Photographs by Len Jenshel
Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY 1988
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centro Cultura Arte Contemporanio, Mexico City, Mexico
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
IMPGEH (International Museum Photography George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Israeli Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
National Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Fe Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The New York Times Apr 16, 2006
On the Waterfront by Ben Gibberd City Section Cover
The Washington Post Mar 25, 2004
Life Through A Fisheye Lens by Jessica Dawson pg C5
Photo District News Mar, 2004 EXPOSURES
Underwater Travels in Hyperreality by Edgar Beem pg 120
AG Magazine Jan, 2004
Aquarium: Photographs by Diane Cook & Len Jenshel
The New Yorker Magazine 11/24/2003
Goings on About Town
National Geographic Adventure Magazine Oct, 2003
Totally Tanked pg 109
Audubon Magazine Sep, 2003
The Age of Aquarium pg 68
Pasatiempo Aug 1-7, 2003
The Cultural Landscape by Teri Thomson Randall pg 16
Landscape Architecture Magazine Feb, 2003
Sharp Focus, Blurred Boundaries by Kim Sorvig pg 76
The Seattle Times Nov 10, 2000
Through the Looking Glass by Caitlin Cleary
The Altered Landscape by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey,
& Thomas W. Southall Nevada Museum of Art, 1999
Art & Antiques Magazine Sep, 1998
Landscapes in Flux by Andrew Long pg 74
American Photo Jan/Feb, 1997
Best Books of 1996 by Carol Squiers pg 85
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West
by Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, 1996
DoubleTake / Fall 1996
Hot Spots: Americas Volcanic Landscape
The Los Angeles Times 12/1/1996
Finding a Vent for their Creativity by Christine McKenna Pg 63
The New Yorker Magazine 11/27/1995
Goings on About Town
The New York Times 9/10/1995
The New Season by Vicki Goldberg
Tradition and the Unpredictable by Ann W. Tucker, Charles Traub,
Vince Aletti Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994
Between Home and Heaven by Merry A. Forresta
National Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 1992
Newsweek Magazine 6/1/1992
The Far side of Eden by Peter Plagens pg 66
Visual ID / Photograph Quarterly Sep, 1991, Issue 01
Len Jenshel, Yancey Richardson Gallery pg 138
The Village Voice 4/23/1991
Voice Choices by Vince Aletti
American Photo Sep/Oct, 1990
The New View of Nature by Carol Squiers pg 54
Aperture / Beyond Wilderness
Out of the Garden 1990
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture by Anne Tucker
& Brendan Gill McGraw-Hill, New York, NY 1990
ARTnews Apr, 1988
Len Jenshel at Laurence Miller Gallery by Richard Woodward pg 152
American Independents by Sally Eauclaire
Abbeville Press, New York, NY 1987
ARTnews Sep, 1987
Getting Close to Gotham by Marvin Heiferman pg 107
True Stories by David Byrne
Viking Penguin, New York, NY 1986
United Magazine Feb, 1986
Steichen In the Year 2000 by Dorianne Beyer pg 55
New Color - New Work by Sally Eauclaire
Abbeville Press, New York, NY 1984
Aperture
Natural Formalism 1984
The New York Times 3/13/1983
In the Arts: Critics Choice by Andy Grundberg
Camera Arts Mar/Apr, 1982
A Show of Wealth by Richard Snow pg 74
The New Color Photography by Sally Eauclaire
Abbeville Press, New York, NY 1981
Art in America Jan, 1982
Photography Raising a Hue: The New Color by Pepe Karmel Pg 27
ARTnews Jan, 1981
A Decisive Moment by Stephen Frankel pg 94
Art in America Oct, 1980
Len Jenshel at Castelli Graphics by Pepe Karmel pg 133
Modern Photography Magazine Jun, 1980
Currents: American Photography Today by Andy Grundberg pg 84
Newsweek Magazine 3/19/1979
The Young Romantics by Douglas Davis pg 100
COMMISSIONS
Spoleto USA, Charleston, SC (John Beardsley)
Human / Nature 1997
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Anne Tucker)
History of Bank Architecture 1986-87
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (Sandra S. Phillips)
Hudson River School Artists 1984-87
EDUCATION
The Cooper Union, New York, NY BFA 1975
GRANTS & AWARDS
2003 New York State Council on the Arts
2002 Design Trust for Public Space
1996 Ernst Haas Golden Light Award
1987 New York Foundation for the Arts
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
Mar, 2004 Aquarium
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jan, 2004 Aquarium
Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York, NY
Nov, 2003 Aquarium
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Oct, 2000 Full Tank: An In Depth Look at Aquariums
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Oct, 2000 Aquarium
Aspen Gallery of Photography, Aspen, CO
Mar, 1999 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle WA
May, 1997 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
May, 1997 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dec, 1996 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Penn Station, New York, NY / MTA Arts for Transit
Nov, 1996 Hot Spots
Chandler Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Oct, 1996 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Oct, 1995 Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Mar, 1994, Hot Spots
Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
Jun, 1989, Photographs
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Mar, 1986, The Angle of a Landscape
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Feb, 1986, Recent Landscapes
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Miami Dade College Gallery, Miami, FL
Jan, 2006 On Ice
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
Nov, 2002 On the Waterfront
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nov, 2000 Ten Year Anniversary Show
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle WA
Jul, 2000 Still Waters
Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY
May, 1999 Down From Up: Views From On High
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
May, 1999 Under Construction
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
Dec, 1998 Icebergs
L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dec, 1997 Developing a Collection
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Sep, 1997 Eye of the Beholder: The Avon Collection
Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR
Jan, 1996 Blue Sky 20th Anniversary Show
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Jul, 1995 H 2 O: Contemporary & Vintage Images of Water
San Francisco Museum Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Feb, 1994, Recent Acquisitions
Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Sep, 1993, The Tree
Huntington Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA
Jan, 1992 The Country Between Us
Maine Photographic Gallery, Rockport, ME
Aug, 1986 Variations on the Landscape
Art Institute of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Jun, 1985 Photography/Three Rivers Festival
Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA
Apr, 1985 Women Photographers in America
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Nov, 1983 High Light: The Mountain in Photography
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Mar, 1984, The Water Show
MONOGRAPHS
Aquarium
Photographs by Diane Cook & Len Jenshel
Aperture, New York, NY 2003
Hot Spots: America's Volcanic Landscape
Photographs by Diane Cook & Len Jenshel
Bulfinch Press, Little Brown & Co., Boston, MA 1996
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
L.A. County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Avon Art Collection, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The New York Times Apr 16, 2006
On the Waterfront by Ben Gibberd City Section Cover
The Washington Post Mar 25, 2004
Life Through A Fisheye Lens by Jessica Dawson pg C5
Photo District News Mar, 2004 EXPOSURES
Underwater Travels in Hyperreality by Edgar Beem pg 120
AG Magazine Jan, 2004
Aquarium: Photographs by Diane Cook & Len Jenshel
The New Yorker 11/24/2003
Goings on About Town
National Geographic Adventure Magazine Oct, 2003
Totally Tanked pg 109
Audubon Magazine Sep, 2003
The Age of Aquarium pg 68
The Seattle Times Nov 10, 2000
Through the Looking Glass by Caitlin Cleary
Art & Antiques Sep, 1998
Landscapes in Flux by Andrew Long pg 74
American Photo Jan/Feb, 1997
Best Books of 1996 by Carol Squiers pg 85
DoubleTake / Fall 1996
Hot Spots: Americas Volcanic Landscape
Western Art Masterpieces
T. H. Watkins & Joan Parker Watkins, 1996
The Los Angeles Times 12/1/1996
Finding a Vent for their Creativity by Christine McKenna pg 63
The New Yorker 11/27/1995
Goings on About Town
The New York Times 9/10/1995
The New Season by Vicki Goldberg
Tradition and the Unpredictable by Ann W. Tucker, Charles Traub,
Vince Aletti Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994
The West: A Treasury of Art & Literature
T. H. Watkins & Joan Parker Watkins, 1994
Chicago Tribune 4/11/86
New Jersey: An American Portrait
by April Bernard and Luc Sante, Roundtable Press, 1986
Landscapes Are A Visual Form Of Poetry pg 83
Art Matters Jun, 1985
Imagemaking/Regeneration by Deborah Fairfield pg 9
The Pittsburgh Press 6/11/85
Festival Art Fresh, Varied, and Best Ever by Patricia Lowry
Burlington County Times 5/31/85
Artists Show Off Their Talent / Outlook pg 23
Los Angeles Times 4/28/85
Reflective Portraits of Women by Dinah Berland
Photo Review / Fall, 1985,
Philadelphia, PA
Women Photographers in America 1985 / Summer 1985
by Irene Borger and Josine Ianco-Starrels
Art New England Oct, 1981 / Vol II No 9
Worlds Made, Worlds Found by Roger Baldwin pg 6
EDUCATION
Douglass College, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
B.A. 1976 Magna Cum Laude, Senior Art Award
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Summer, 1985
Special Arts Program Scholarship