"My
intention is very simple: I want to share the joy of seeing; to remind the
viewer how beautiful, how surprising and how interesting this world truly is .
. . if we just take the time to look."
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From her rural
Averill Park, New York studio, in the gentle foothills of the Berkshires,
painter and printmaker Jenness Cortez dedicates her creative energy to
capturing the essence of the world around her. She is a realist in approach,
but all her images have always been filtered through the heart. Her paintings
are uplifting, reassuring and enduring. "Like a good friend," Cortez
says, "art faithfully offers quiet cheer and encouragement. As an
instrument of the creative spirit, art provides a doorway to the soul."
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Born in
Frankfort, Indiana, Jenness Cortez began her formal art studies at the age of
sixteen under the guidance of noted Dutch painter, Antonius Raemaekers. Cortez
has a solid fine arts background, having graduated from the Herron School of
Art in Indianapolis and studied at the Art Students League of New York.
From 1977
through 1997, Jenness Cortez received international acclaim for her sporting
paintings and her masterful depiction of the horse. Capturing the subtle
complexities of the sporting scene takes more than the ability to render the
painstaking likeness of a horse. It requires perceptive observation and a
mastery of composition. Like George Stubbs and Frederic Remington, she is first
and foremost, an excellent draftsman.
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In her twenty-one
years depicting the horse, Jenness Cortez became one of the most sought after
sporting art painters in the world. Her paintings are in numerous public and
private collections including those of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill
Clinton, HRH Queen Elizabeth, II, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alexander, Mr. Edgar
Bronfman, Ms. Virginia Kraft Payson, Ambassador True Davis, Mr. Henry Kravis,
Mr. Ogden Mills Phipps, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Congressman Gerald
Solomon, Gov. George Pataki, Gov. Hugh Carey, John Schuerholz, Atlanta Braves
general manager,New York State Museum, Fluor Corporation, Saratoga Harness,
Inc., Skidmore College and SUNY Empire State College.
In her latest
works, Jenness Cortez pays homage to history's most celebrated artists.
Inspired by the light, color and form of the great masters, Cortez skillfully
incorporates their time-honored images into exquisitely painted contemporary
settings. Eeach new Cortez composition offers an abundance of precise, accurate
detail and sensitive aesthetic balance. As a brilliant technician, her dynamic
and rich compositions entreat the viewer's eye to move eagerly through these
paintings again and again--enjoyably discovering and absorbing every rewarding
nuance.
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Cortez's
representations of the phenomenal world are sensitive, passionate, entertaining
and deeply moving. Regardless of subject, her work exhibits a mystical ability
to capture the soul of her subjects and to communicate poetically the essence
of the moment and the place.
Judging from the
enormous range and versatility of her work, numerous critics and art historians
believe that Jenness Cortez is in the process of creating one of the most
distinguished bodies of work in American history.
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