Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969–70 David Anfam and textures

and textures

and one of three color production stills created during the making of the 2010 photographic series

and folklore

drawings in period frames

interacting with other colors

Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969–70 David Anfam and texturesThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Neil Jenney: The Bad Years 196970 at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. It features more than twenty five paintings made by the artist between 1969 and 1970. Jenney began to make the Bad Paintings in the 1960s, referring to them as such after curator Marcia Tuckers 1978 exhibition Bad Painting at the New Museum, New York. These purposefully sketchy, gestural works poked at preconceptions