Jenny Brillhart
Cut Blinds, 2023
Oil on panel
15" x 10"
Jenny Brillhart
Wild Calla; Water Arum, 2024
Oil on panel
8" x 10"
Jenny Brillhart
From Outside, 2024
Oil on panel
37" x 27"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Blunt Leaved Milkweed; Cut Flowers, 2024
Oil on panel
19" x 15"
Jenny Brillhart
Mary Houghton; Garment Rack, 2024
Oil on panel
16" x 12"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Swamp Rose Mallow; Mallow Rose, Cut Flowers, 2024
Oil on panel
19" x 15"
Jenny Brillhart
Slipper Chair with Pillow, 2019
Oil on panel
10" x 10"
Jenny Brillhart
Slipper Chair and Patch of Blue, 2019
Oil on panel
10" x 10"
Jenny Brillhart
Musk Mallow; Musk Plant; Cut Flowers, 2024
Oil on panel
19" x 15"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Small White Lady’s Slipper; Cut Flowers, 2024
Oil on panel
19" x 15"
Jenny Brillhart
Pitcher Plant; Sidesaddle Flower; Cut Flowers, 2024
Oil on panel
19" x 15"
Jenny Brillhart
Red Handle, 2023
Oil on panel
10" x 10"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Houghton Mansion; John Widder’s Ghost, 2024
Oil on panel
27" x 20"
Jenny Brillhart
Uncovered Element, 2023
Oil on panel
16" x 20"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
A.C.H. Behind the Curtain, 2024
Oil on panel
30" x 40"
Jenny Brillhart
Sybil Hutton; Dorm Bed Blue, 2024
Oil on panel
20" x 20"
Jenny Brillhart
Cropped Rietvel Copy with Unfolded Linen, 2023
Oil on panel
40" x 30"
Jenny Brillhart
Button Bush; Bush Globe Flower; Cut Flowers, 2024
Oil on panel
19" x 15"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Jake's Bathroom Corner, 2022
Oil on panel
10" x 10"
Jenny Brillhart
Jake's Bathroom Cubby, 2022
Oil on panel
10" x 10"
Jenny Brillhart
Vinyl Cushion, 4:32pm, 2022
Oil on aluminum
16" x 12"
Jenny Brillhart
Long Light with Rectangles, 2022
Oil on panel
12" x 16"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
The Glass Elevator, 2023
Oil on panel
40" x 30"
Jenny Brillhart
Stacks with Persimmon, 2023
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Sara's Pink Table, 2023
Oil on panel
15" x 12"
Jenny Brillhart
Holding Drywall, Foam and Shadow, 2023
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
Jenny Brillhart
Holding Drywall, Foam and Light, 2023
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
Jenny Brillhart
Dirty Water, 2023
Oil on panel
15" x 12"
Jenny Brillhart
The 1959 Scissors, 2022
Oil on panel
12" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Moving Out, 2022
Oil on panel
40" x 30"
Jenny Brillhart
BG's Slipper Chair, 2022
Oil on aluminum
28" x 21"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Dotted Shade, 6/1, 5:36 am, 2022
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Dotted Shade, 4/8, 6:54 am, 2022
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Dotted Shade, 5/3, 5:27 am, 2022
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
Jenny Brillhart
Woodblock Abstraction, 2022
Oil on panel
13" x 11"
Jenny Brillhart
Covering with Tile Sized Ode to RD, 2022
Oil on panel
40" x 30"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Table with Cove Moldings, 2022
Oil on linen
36" x 30"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Flamingo Pink with Linen, 2022
Oil on linen
42" x 30"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Spalding, 2022
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Unstretched, 2021
Oil on panel
20" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Gate Eight, 2021
Oil on panel
30" x 20"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Tennis Love, 2021
Oil on panel
60" x 48"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Arrangement with Linen and Easel, 2019
Oil on panel
40" x 29"
Jenny Brillhart
Collage with Flower and Pilaster, 2018
Oil on panel
25" x 29"
Jenny Brillhart
Borrowed Aloe with Red Rectangle (10am September), 2020
Oil on panel
40" x 29"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Pool Fill, 2020
Oil on aluminum
17" x 12"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Blue Moon, 2019
Oil on panel
29" x 40"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Borrowed Aloe, 2020
Oil on panel
24" x 20"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Kissing Tables, 2020
Oil on panel
14" x 18"
Jenny Brillhart
Legs and Tops, 2020
Oil on panel
14" x 18"
Jenny Brillhart
All Your Boating Needs, 2015
Oil on panel
30" x 25"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Walker Pond Quiet Water with Rope, Cleat and Ladder, 2020
Oil and photo on aluminum
23" x 17"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Walker Pond Blue Dock with Cleat and Rope, 2020
Oil and photo on aluminum
45" x 35"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Bucket with Corners and Handle, 2020
Oil on panel
16" x 16"
Jenny Brillhart
Bucket with Corner and Racquet, 2020
Oil on panel
16" x 16"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Paint as One and Many Chairs
Oil on panel
40" x 29"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Selectman's Office Print and Lawn Chair
Oil on aluminum
40" x 30"
Jenny Brillhart
Selectman's Office
Oil on aluminum
40" x 30"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
The Good Neighbor, Folded
Oil on panel
82" x 46"
Jenny Brillhart
Easel Holding the Still Life; 11:07am and 5:15pm (Late Winter)
Oil and photo on aluminum
20" x 20"
Jenny Brillhart
The Good Neighbor, Dark Window
Oil on panel
18" x 35"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Stool and Styrofoam 3:17, March
Oil on birch panel
13" x 11"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Summer House, Bed and Flowers
Oil on birch panel
17" x 14"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Teal Drywall for the Bath
Oil on panel
82" x 46"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart
Styrofoam; 10:30am and 3:18pm (Late Winter)
Oil and photo on aluminum
20" x 20"
SOLD
Jenny Brillhart’s premiere solo exhibit in Maine is an event that needs your attention. On first seeing the paintings in her exhibit, “Placement,” at Bangor’s Zillman Art Museum through April 21, one sees elegant geometrical abstractions in close, light greys and muted colors, a series of works investigating spare composi-tions and their spatial variations.
Brillhart can paint. Her scenes are not only accurate, but also precise, and she can handle the brush and knife with a rare ability, which she uses to excellent effect. These scenes will strike many (at first, at least) as being as cold as the aluminum on which she paints. The sense of remove, however, dissolves as we begin to see the hyper-realistic images as paintings rather than photographically observed scenes. It’s easy to miss Brillhart’s marks because they play their representational parts so well, but with a closer look (I mean this literally – when you get close to the canvas to observe the surface), her mark making appears as nothing short of masterly – and it is handled to brilliant effect.
Jenny Brillhart is interested in the unexpected and often overlooked—places and materials plucked from everyday life that arrest her attention. Placed in three-dimensional arrangements in the studio or photographed and assembled in collages, the common and quotidian become subjects for her spare, elegant compositions. Rendered in mostly muted tones, with considered notes of strong color, there is an atmosphere of stillness, of quietude in her paintings. Light and shadows play a dominant role. The influence of Shaker design and craftsmanship runs deep, as do the Precisionist paintings of Charles Scheeler. Shape, space, and gravity are defined by her masterly mark-making.
Brillhart received her BFA from Smith College, Northampton, MA, and MFA in painting from The New York Academy of Art, with additional studies at The Art Students League, New York, NY. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kuckei + Kuckei Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL; and numerous other solo and group exhibitions throughout Maine, Florida, Germany, and Spain. In 2019, Brillhart's work was included in the New England Biennial Exhibition at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, and in 2017, in the two-person exhibition Temporality: Jenny Brillhart & Sara Stites at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. She lives and works in Blue Hill, ME.