Jane Grundy
Title:
Associate Professor
Degrees:
MA New School for Social Research
Dip. In Fine Arts, Cooper Union
BA University of Leicester, England
Contact:
New Technology Building
16 W 61st Street
Room 913
New York, NY 10023
212.261.1715
e-mail:
jgrundy@nyit.edu
grundyj@mindspring.com
Personal Links/Files:
curriculum vitae
http://www.grundygarden.com
Areas of Scholarly and Artistic Interest:
• digital/mixed media combining photographic images with traditional art making
• motion graphics using photographic stills, video, 2D animation, sound
• Pre-history and history of photography relating to history of painting
• history of photocollage in early 20th century
• images of Nature used as autobiographical metaphor
• photography and the struggle for urban green space
Grundy’s current artwork starts with photographic images of Nature and explores both digital and manual manipulation. Post-digital alteration and enhancement of the Giclee prints with traditional media such as pastel, allow direct tactile interaction with the image in a fusion of past and present. Complex layering suggests the richness of our experience as we continue to struggle for identity. The illusion of reality of the original photographic image(s) persists despite the pictorial disruption, suggesting deeper forces at work.
Career Summary:
After emigrating to New York in 1965 from England, Grundy studied Painting and Photography at Cooper Union. She worked in publishing, in art therapy and in photo galleries such as the Witkin Gallery, the first commercially successful photography gallery. In 1975, she began a 25-year documentary project on the West Side Community Garden. Then she began teaching photography at Bard College and returned to get her MA in Media Studies at the New School.
Grundy started the Photography Program at the Manhattan Campus of NYIT in 1981. In the early 1980s she began manipulating photographs on NYIT’s own early computer graphics system, “Images.” She also began manipulation of black-and-white photographs by hand, with techniques such as painted-on developer and mark-making with traditional media. In the 1990s. it was Digital Revolution which inspired her to combine digital and traditional mixed media.
Currently Grundy concentrates on teaching Digital Photography and Two-Dimensional Design. Continuing to work actively as an artist-photographer using digital technology is the cornerstone of her teaching.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
“Windows on Broadway,” New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York, 1995
Simon’s Rock at Bard College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1993
Goddard Riverside Community Center, Bronx, New York, 1990
Urban Center; Municipal Art Society, New York, New York, 1985
New School/Parsons Gallery, New York, New York, 1980
Presentations
Professional Women Photographers, New York, New York, 1993
NYC/ACM SIGGRAPH “Media Shock” Conference, Pace College, New York, New York, 1991
Society for Photographic Education. NE Regional Conference Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1991