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Kristin Jones (born 1956 in Washington, D.C.) and Andrew Ginzel (born 1954 in Chicago) are a contemporary American artist team. Both Jones and Ginzel pursue independent careers in the arts, but they are best known for their collaborative, large scale public art projects, installations and exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally.


Biography

Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel have worked collaboratively since 1985 on many commissioned private and public projects, as well as museum and gallery exhibitions internationally. Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah. Site-specific installations in public institutions and spaces include the
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in Atlanta; in New York City at the
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, on 42nd Street and at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage for
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, at the P.S. 1, at the New Museum and in City Hall Park with the Public Art Fund. Nationally, they have exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center, the
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, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Their international exhibitions include major works the city of Rome at the Aquario Romano, for the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland, at the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea in
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, as well the Trienalle in New Delhi, India. Besides participating in many group exhibitions, the artists have exhibited solo in galleries beginning in 1985 with Barbara Flynn and subsequently with
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, Damon Brandt and Frederieke Taylor. Work with performance includes a commission by the
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to create a collaborative work with the choreographer Chandralekha for the Next Wave Festival. Previously, they had designed sets, costumes, and lighting for the
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,
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and staging for Matthew McGuire of the Creation Company. The artists have been commissioned to build a wide variety of major permanent site-specific works each entirely different from the next, each totally integrated into its environment. In New York City, they have worked in two schools:
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in Battery Park City and at PS 102 in the Bronx. Other Percent for Art projects include works for large public buildings in Portland, Oregon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have created '' Metronome'', for Union Square, Manhattan under the auspices of the Public Art Fund and the
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and ''Oculus'', in the Chambers Street – World Trade Center / Park Place
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station. Jones and Ginzel have received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the
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. Foreign research grants have included: the
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Scholar Program for research in Italy (twice), an Indo-American Fellowship for nine months of research in India, American Center Paris, Cité International des Arts, Residency, Paris. Direct project grants have included the Artists Grant,
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, Art Matters, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the New York Council on the Arts and Humanities, and from the
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as well as an NEA Arts in Architecture and Inter-Arts grant. Residencies have included the
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’s Bellagio, Yaddo, Ucross, Djerassi and MacDowell. Their work ''Adytum'' for
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received a “Bessie” award. The National Endowment for the Arts has twice awarded Fellowships for Sculpture. Jones and Ginzel were the first co-winners of the Rome Prize.


References

*Jones, Kristin and Andrew Ginzel. "Kristin Jones - Andrew Ginzel" http://www.jonesginzel.com Retrieved 28 February 2008 *The Related Companies. "Kristin Jones / Andrew Ginzel" https://web.archive.org/web/20080704131612/http://metronome.related.com/biographies.htm Retrieved 28 February 2008 *Finkelpearl, Tom. “Dialogues in Public Art", Cambridge: The MIT Press pp. X, 45, 274, 352–377; ill.


External links

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TEVERETERNO, a Rome-based cultural nonprofit led by artist Kristin Jones
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20071022070829/http://nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/jones2.shtml Jones/Ginzel on New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs Website (''Encyclic'', 2004)br>Developer's site dedicated to ''Metronome'', 1999Stuy Cubed, the Stuyvesant High School site dedicated to ''Mnemonics'', 1992
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080530164912/http://yaddo.org/yaddo/OnsiteJones-Ginzel.shtml Jones/Ginzel at Yaddobr>Jones/Ginzel in the Rahway Arts District
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