Candy Jernigan

Born in Miami in 1952, Jernigan graduated from Miami Palmetto High School in 1969 before attending the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,{{cite web|url=http://miamipalmettohighschool.org/alumni/7698938/candy-jernigan.html|title=Miami Palmetto High School Memorial Page Dedicated to Candy Jernigan|website=HighSchoolNetwork|publisher=Classmates.com|via=miamipalmettohighschool.org|access-date=June 15, 2019|archive-date=August 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831161522/http://miamipalmettohighschool.org/alumni/7698938/candy-jernigan.html|url-status=live}}{{Better source needed|reason=Citation is school memorial site but, the name Candy Jernigan does not appear in school yearbooks from that time, not likely her birthname but no other sources.|date=June 2024}} and first worked as a set and costume designer in Provincetown, Massachusetts before 1975. She was described by realist painter and friend Lisbeth Firmin as an influential figure in the town's arts scene, being extensively involved in its theatre and the Provincetown Art Association.{{cite magazine|title=Lisbeth Firmin: Street Artist|last=Burns|first=Lynne|magazine=Provincetown Arts|location=Provincetown, Mass.|year=2014|url=http://www.cameoappearances.com/PA-Arts-2014-Article.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827114834/http://www.cameoappearances.com/PA-Arts-2014-Article.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-08-27|pages=83–86|quote=It was during this time that Firmin met another big influence on her life, Candy Jernigan. In 1975, Firmin was given a beautiful pastel of the Pilgrim Monument in the fog for her birthday. It was drawn by Jernigan. Firmin tracked down this artist and they became good friends...}} Alec Wilkinson would describe her in a 1994 reflection on her time in Provincetown as witty, withdrawn, and modest in promoting her work. She kept a large macaw named Jack, and spent much of her evenings trying new studies of landscape painting and still lifes. Maintaining contact with Firmin and others who moved there, Jernigan moved back to New York in 1980, where she would take up work as a set designer for a dance company, and designed and illustrated dozens of covers for books and albums.{{cite web|archive-date=June 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615023953/https://www.cca.edu/newsroom/cca-wattis-institute-announces-solo-exhibitions-patrick-jackson-and-candy-jernigan/|url=https://www.cca.edu/newsroom/cca-wattis-institute-announces-solo-exhibitions-patrick-jackson-and-candy-jernigan/|title=CCA Wattis Institute announces solo exhibitions of Patrick Jackson and Candy Jernigan|date=April 27, 2017|publisher=California College of Arts}}{{cite web|title=Candy Land: The Art of Candy Jernigan|date=June 29, 2013|archive-date=June 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615031005/http://newyorkboundbookstore.com/2013/06/29/candy-land-the-art-of-candy-jernigan/|website=NewYorkBoundBooks.com|url=http://newyorkboundbookstore.com/2013/06/29/candy-land-the-art-of-candy-jernigan/}} She met Philip Glass in 1981 on a flight from Amsterdam to New York, and during their relationship would go on to design several of his album covers including The Photographer, Dance (Nos. 1-5), and In the Upper Room, among others.{{cite book|title=Words Without Music: A Memoir|last=Glass|first=Philip|year=2015|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|oclc=908632624|chapter=Candy Jernigan}} Within a few years she had moved in with Glass in his rowhouse in the East Village, helping to raise his children from his first marriage, Juliet and Zachary. Although identified as his third wife, the couple would spend the majority of their relationship as cohabitants, before marrying in 1991.{{Cite book|title=Minimalists|last=Schwarz|first=K. Robert|year=1996|publisher=Phaidon Press|location=London|page=154|oclc=243860079}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-22-ca-20082-story.html|title=TASTE MAKERS: People Who Shape and Define Matters of Taste : PHILIP GLASS : FROM THE ROCK HALLS TO OPERA|date=December 22, 1985|last=Venant|first=Elizabeth|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles|quote=The library is the focal point of his house, where he lives with artist Candy Jernigan...Glass shares the cooking with Jernigan and, when the children are with them, the family gathers for a leisurely dinner. 'I like the family time,' he says. He calls Jernigan his 'girlfriend,' and says she and his daughter buy what few garments he owns.}} Jernigan died the same year of liver cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, following a prolonged period of illness, having only been correctly diagnosed within weeks of her death.{{cite AV media | people = Scott Hicks (director) | date = September 7, 2007| title = Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts| medium = DVD | language = English | url = | access-date = | format = | location = | publisher = |time-caption=Described at|time=35:30 | id = | isbn = | oclc = | quote = }}

Following her death, a memorial fund for granting awards to dance choreographers and creators was set up in her name; her work would largely remain in storage in her Manhattan basement studio through the 1990s until the posthumous collection of her work Evidence: the Art of Candy Jernigan, was released in 1999.{{cite web|website=anti-product|archive-date=November 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126163957/https://www.anti-product.com/jernigan.html|url=https://www.anti-product.com/jernigan.html|title=Candy Jernigan}} Sponsorship for performing arts projects, as well as exhibition of her work has been in recent years managed by The Candy Jernigan Foundation for the Arts, under Philip Glass's Aurora Music Foundation.{{cite web|website=HIPAASpace|title=EIN: 132767468 : AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS|archive-date=June 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615151703/http://www.hipaaspace.com/ein/ein_verification/132767468|url=http://www.hipaaspace.com/ein/ein_verification/132767468|year=2019}}

• {{cite web|website=TimeOut|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615151938/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/philip-glass-music-with-friends|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/philip-glass-music-with-friends|archive-date=June 15, 2019|date=May 30, 2012|title=Philip Glass: Music with Friends|publisher=Time Out America LLC|quote=In an effort to raise funds for Issue Project Room and his own Aurora Music Foundation, Philip Glass oversees and participates in...}}

File:Disguises for the Pilgrim Monument by Candy Jernigan (1977).png, along with her pseudonym "Cindy Jeroniga", 1977]]

While in Provincetown, Jernigan would serve as a set designer, and board member for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Provincetown Theater Company, as well as art director for Provincetown Magazine.{{cite book|title=Summer Catalog 1978: Sixty-fourth Season|publisher=Provincetown Art Association and Museum; Shank Painter Printing Company|year=1978|url=http://www.provincetownhistoryproject.com/PDF/mun_101_014-paam-summer-catalog-1978.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617165424/http://www.provincetownhistoryproject.com/PDF/mun_101_014-paam-summer-catalog-1978.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-06-17}}{{cite book|title=Eva Braun: a musical fantasy in two acts|publisher=Provincetown Theater Company, Inc.|year=1981|page=7|url=http://provincetownhistoryproject.com/PDF/ptc_000_008-eva-braun.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617170231/http://provincetownhistoryproject.com/PDF/ptc_000_008-eva-braun.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-06-17}} One of the earliest exhibitions of her work was at the East End Gallery in 1977, operated by fellow artist Allegra Printz.{{cite news|title=Art haven for talent: Provincetown permits artists to risk|last=Taylor|first=Robert|work=The Boston Globe|location=Boston|date=August 27, 1978|page=A8|quote=Allegra Printz's East End Gallery began last year to represent younger artists such as Candy Jernigan, Neal Beckerman, Sheila Miles and Peter Yamaoka}} Moving to New York city in 1980, Jernigan went to on establish herself as a book designer over the next decade of her career, working for noted book designer Paul Bacon, introduced to her by Laurie Dolphin.{{cite news|work=The Boston Globe|date=March 12, 1983|location=Boston|page=21|last=Muro|first=Mark|title=The Man Who Makes Book Jackets; You May Not Know Paul Bacon by Name, but You'll Recognize His Bold Designs|quote=When, again, talk turns to his elusive 'style,' Bacon demurs once more. He turns to his assistant, Candy Jernigan, who works at a table by the window. 'Candy, what would you say characterizes my work?' 'Well, I think the illustration and the balance of the illustration and lettering usually tip it off,' she says thoughtfully. 'You also make certain type choices that seem consistent.'}}

In her own artwork Jernigan would work with several different mediums, including watercolors, oil painting, pastels, and mixed media such as Xerox art.{{cite web|website=invaluable|archive-date=June 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618143022/https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/candy-jernigan-american-1952-1991-2128a-c-44846ebbea|url=https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/candy-jernigan-american-1952-1991-2128a-c-44846ebbea|title=Lot 2128A: Candy JERNIGAN (American, 1952 - 1991)|quote=Description: POP TOPS OF THE MODERN WORLD, a bound portfolio of six hand-coloured and stamped xeroxes. Each print is a drawing of a discarded pop top found in a different city|author=A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals|date=December 2, 2015}} A contributing member of the International Society of Copier Artists, her work was featured in multiple issues of its quarterly, including its first "bookworks" edition, an annual issue made up of separate booklets by different artists.{{cite web|archive-date=August 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826014426/https://research.moma.org/mailart/I.html|title=I - Mailart|publisher=MoMA|url=https://research.moma.org/mailart/I.html|quote=Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer 1986). Photocopy and Mixed Media. 11"x8 1/2". (Unpaged). Assembling magazine. "First Annual Bookworks Edition." Sixteen-page catalog accompanies the work...Candy Jernigan (USA)}}{{cite web|archive-date=September 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905110839/https://simons-rock.edu/_documents/library/isca_inventory.pdf|url=https://simons-rock.edu/_documents/library/isca_inventory.pdf|publisher=Bard College at Simon's Rock|title=International Society of Copier Artists Quarterly (gift of Louise Neaderland)|quote=[Vol./No.] 5.2 - Winter 1986 - [no theme/untitled] - [Author/Cover Artist] - Candy Jernigan}}

Among her most notable works in mixed media were her "trash archivist" works, with several comprising New York City garbage including wrappers, packaging, and drug paraphernalia such as needles, vials, and caps. Jernigan would dub such objects "rejectaments" or "rejectamenta", items which have lost purpose or are disposable, with her work described contemporarily by a reporter for The Morning Call as "a glorification of the insignificant... rather to serve as evidence of our being. [Jernigan] creates unwanted relics of a society that wishes to be remembered on a much grander scale and not in the ordinary sense of its most basic ideas."{{cite news|archive-date=June 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618151836/https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-03-25-2724345-story.html|url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-03-25-2724345-story.html|work=The Morning Call|location=Allentown, Penna.|last=Higgins|first=Tim|title=Relics of Throw-Away Burnished to Perfection by Artist Candy Jernigan|date=March 25, 1990}} These found object works include Found Dope, Found Dope II, and Box O' Roaches, the latter being several of the insects mounted on velvet, in a 1989 New York Magazine interview, Jernigan would characterize the piece– "I wanted them to look regal".{{cite magazine|title=Neo-Ashcan|magazine=New York Magazine|date=January 9, 1989|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jegCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15|editor=Edward Kosner|publisher=Murdoch Magazines}} Another example of the use of bugs in her work was her 1985 piece, Dead Bug Book; upon returning to her and Glass's summer cottage in Cape Breton, Jernigan found the house to be overrun with bug corpses, and rather than throwing them out took the time to collect and draw them for her work.{{cite magazine|year=2004|magazine=loud paper|location=Brooklyn, New York|publisher=Mimi Zeiger|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014215435/http://loudpapermag.com/articles/existance-minimummaximum|url=http://loudpapermag.com/articles/existance-minimummaximum|title=Existence Minimum/Maximum}}

Following her diagnosis with liver cancer, she spent her last weeks developing a seldom-exhibited series of pieces, called Vessels, painting more than 80 watercolor on paper paintings in a span of 2 weeks. The series, features Greco-Roman vases and other simpler containers placed on colorful stages expressing different tones and characteristics about the spaces the objects occupied.

Candy Jernigan's work has been featured in the Dance Theater Workshop in 1985 and 1989, at the Bronx Museum and Lumen Travo in 1987,{{cite web|archive-date=March 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324123417/http://m.bronxmuseum.org/aim/aim-artist-in-the-marketplace|website=BronxMuse|publisher=The Bronx Museum of the Arts|title=AIM - ARTIST IN THE MARKETPLACE|url=http://m.bronxmuseum.org/aim/aim-artist-in-the-marketplace}} and posthumously in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2002, and at the Greene Naftali Gallery in 2014.{{cite web|title=Candy Jernigan|website=ArtLinked|archive-date=June 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615023706/https://artlinked.com/Person/8654/candy-jernigan|url=https://artlinked.com/Person/8654/candy-jernigan}}{{cite magazine|page=47|magazine=Provincetown Arts|year=2002|url=https://archive.org/details/provincetownarts2002unse/page/46|title=Summer 2002 Exhibitions [advertisement]|editor=Margaret Carroll-Bergman}} Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/16850|title=Candy Jernigan|website=www.whitney.org|access-date=2019-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408082322/https://www.whitney.org/artists/16850|archive-date=2019-04-08|url-status=live}} and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.{{cite web|url=https://www3.mcachicago.org/2012/twhb/works/all/artist/1/55/index.html|title=This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - Exhibitions - MCA Chicago|website=www3.mcachicago.org|access-date=2019-04-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408082323/https://www3.mcachicago.org/2012/twhb/works/all/artist/1/55/index.html|archive-date=2019-04-08|url-status=live}}

• Corrigan, by Lady Caroline Blackwood, Viking (1985), first American edition
• A Darker Shade of Pale: a Backdrop to Bob Dylan, by Wilfrid Mellers, Oxford University Press (1985), first American edition
• Rich Like Us, by Nayantara Sahgal, Heinemann (1985), first American edition
• Moonshine, by Alec Wilkinson, Knopf (1985)
• In the Moment, by Francis Davis, Oxford University Press (1986)
• Robak's Fire, by Joe L. Hensley, Doubleday (1986)
• Horror Wears Blue, by Lin Carter, Doubleday (1987)
• Vergil in Averno, by Avram Davidson, Doubleday (1987)
• Roots of Honor, by Shelly Gross, Donald I. Fine (1987)
• The Nine Bright Shiners, by Anthea Fraser, Doubleday (1988)
• Memory of Snow and of Dust, by Breyten Breytenbach, Farrar Straus Giroux (1989), first American edition
• King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler, Knopf (1991), first American edition
• Sheep, Goats and Soap, by John Malcolm, C. Scribner & Sons (1991)
• A Tasty Way to Die, by Janet Laurence, Doubleday (1991), first American edition
• A Journal of the Flood Year, by David Ely, Donald I. Fine (1992), posthumous release

• The Photographer, Philip Glass (1984)
• Formal Abandon, Michael Riesman (1986)
• Dance (nos. 1-5), Philip Glass (1988)
• Music in Twelve Parts, Philip Glass (1988)
• Passages, Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass (1990)

• Please Save My World: Children Speak Out Against Nuclear War (1984) {{OCLC|11030523}}, illustrator
• Dead Bug Book (1985) {{OCLC|52783499}}{{efn|Posthumously published as The Dead Bug Box : 24 postal cards (1999) by Chronicle Books}}
• Pop Tops of the Modern World (1985), 6 piece folio, limited printing
• 9 (nine) Unknown Landscapes (1986) {{OCLC|81664634}}
• Evidence : the Art of Candy Jernigan (1999) {{OCLC|40668064}}, posthumous compilation

• "Snapshots," debut by Ralph Fredericks, directed by Grant King, Provincetown Theater Company, 1978 (set design of cast portraits by Jernigan & Lisbeth Firmin)
• "The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness", directed by Charles Horne and James Bennett, Provincetown Theater Company, 1979
• "Happy Birthday, Wanda June", directed by Ron Weissenberger, Provincetown Theater Company, 1979
• "State of the Heart", by Cyndi Lee, 1983{{efn|name=nypl|Film of production in collections of New York Public Library}}
• "This Statement Is False (The Liar's Paradox)", by Mary Ellen Strom, 1988
• "Nuts: (homage to Freud)", by Cyndi Lee, 1989,{{efn|name=nypl|Film of production in collections of New York Public Library}} sets and costume design
• "The Manson Family: An Opera", by John Moran, 1990

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• {{cite book|title=Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan|year=1999|editor=Laurie Dolphin|author1=Candy Jernigan|author2=Chuck Close|publisher=Chronicle Books|oclc=40668064|location=San Francisco}}
• {{cite book|title=Words Without Music: A Memoir|last=Glass|first=Philip|year=2015|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|oclc=908632624|chapter=Candy Jernigan}}
• {{cite journal|journal=The Eagle Feather|year=2012|title=Candy Jernigan's Rejectamenta: Collage, Photography, and (Discarded) Body Memory|last=Molina Garcia|first=Jonathan A|doi=10.12794/tef.2012.119|publisher=University of North Texas|volume=IX|doi-access=free}}
• {{cite magazine|magazine=Provincetown Arts|last=Wilkinson|first=Alex|publisher=Christopher Busa|title=Lost Friends: Candy Jernigan|url=https://archive.org/details/provincetownarts1994unse/page/52|year=1994}}

• [https://artlinked.com/Artists/8654/candy-jernigan Candy Jernigan], selected works and biography on ArtLinked
• [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Candy-Jernigan/B7852AB69B3CC236#more Candy Jernigan], MutualArt
• [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Candy%20Jernigan%22%20%22Jacket%20Design%22&sin=TXT Examples of book jackets by Candy Jernigan], Internet Archives

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