Jock Reynolds
{{Short description|American arts administrator, visual artist (born 1947)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jock Reynolds
| birth_name = John M. Reynolds
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}}
| birth_place = New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
| education = University of California, Santa Cruz (BA),
University of California, Davis (MFA)
| occupation = Museum director, curator, visual artist, arts administrator, gallerist
| known_for = Sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, installation art
| spouse = Suzanne Hellmuth
}}
Jock Reynolds (born 1947; né John M. Reynolds) is an American museum director, visual artist, and curator. He served as the director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1998 until 2018. His artwork is interdisciplinary and he often works in sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, and installation art.
Early life and education
Jock Reynolds was born as John M. Reynolds in 1947, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RNVPAAAAMAAJ |title=Liberty and Justice: February 22-March 22, 1986 |date=1986 |publisher=Alternative Museum |isbn=978-0-932075-07-9 |pages=29 |language=en |via=Google Books}} He graduated with a BA degree in 1969 from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and with a MFA degree in 1972 from the University of California, Davis. At UC Santa Cruz, he studied under Gurdon Woods.{{Cite news |last=Puga |first=Ana |date=1998-11-29 |title=Avant-Garde Art Plus Institutional Ideas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/nyregion/avantgarde-art-plus-institutional-ideas.html |access-date= |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
In the 1970s, Reynolds married artist Suzanne Hellmuth, and they sometimes collaborate on artwork.{{Cite web |title=Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds |url=https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/?request=record;id=1993;type=701 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=ArtsWA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fischer |first=Hal |date=1980-06-06 |title=Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/suzanne-hellmuth-and-jock-reynolds-229073/ |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}
Career
Reynolds was an associate professor and director of the graduate program in the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at California State University, San Francisco (now San Francisco State University) from 1973 to 1983.{{Cite web |title=Jock Reynolds |url=https://sites.asiasociety.org/uschinaforum/jock-reynolds/ |website=Asia Society}} One of his students at SF State was Renny Pritikin.{{Cite web |last=Hamlin |first=Jesse |date=2014-08-13 |title=Contemporary Jewish Museum curator Renny Pritikin on a buzz mission |url=https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Curator-of-Contemporary-Jewish-Museum-creating-a-5686209.php |access-date= |website=SFGATE |language=en-US}}
Reynolds co-founded the New Langton Arts in 1975, a not-for-profit arts organization and pioneering alternative arts space located at 80 Langton Street, San Francisco.
Reynolds served as the executive director of the Washington Project for the Arts from 1983 to 1989, a non-profit arts organization in Washington, D.C.. From 1989 until 1998, he served as the director of the Addison Gallery of American Art an academic museum at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Reynolds served as the "Henry J. Heinz II Director" of the Yale University Art Gallery, from 1998 until 2018.{{Cite news |last=McGrath |first=Charles |date=December 6, 2012 |title=A King of Art With the Midas Touch |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/arts/design/jock-reynolds-transformative-director-of-yale-art-gallery.html |work=The New York Times |issn=1553-8095}}{{Cite web |date=2017-02-02 |title=Yale Art Gallery director Jock Reynolds to step down next year |url=https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/02/yale-art-gallery-director-jock-reynolds-step-down-next-year |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=YaleNews |language=en}} During this time at the Yale University Art Gallery, Reynolds renovated and restored all three buildings.
His art practice consists primarily of sculpture, photography, conceptual art, performance art, and installation art.{{Cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Steven A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oV-kxyDHbysC&dq=Jock+Reynolds&pg=PA204 |title=Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area |last2=Berkson |first2=Bill |date=1995-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20363-1 |pages=204 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Chute |first=James |date=2015-07-25 |title='Impossible' exhibit at MCASD |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/07/25/impossible-exhibit-at-mcasd/ |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}} Reynolds' artwork is part of museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web |title=Jock Reynolds |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/37007 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) |language=en}} Detroit Institute of Art,{{Cite web |title=Determine the Values |url=https://dia.org/collection/determine-values-99799 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Detroit Institute of Arts Museum (DIA) |language=en}} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{Cite web |title=Jock Reynolds |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/jock-reynolds-5855 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |language=en}}
Publications
- {{Cite book |last1=Gowin |first1=Emmet |author-link=Emmet Gowin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQNzzgEACAAJ |title=Changing the Earth: Aerial Photographs |last2=Reynolds |first2=Jock |publisher=Yale University Art Gallery |others=Terry Tempest Williams (essay), Philip Brookman (essay) |year=2002 |isbn=9780300093612 |location=New Haven, CT |type=exhibition}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Judith Joy |author-link=Judith Joy Ross |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4d5QgAACAAJ |title=Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools |publisher=Yale University Art Gallery |others=Jock Reynolds (essay) |year=2006 |isbn=9780300115840 |location=New Haven, CT |type=photography art book}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ruwedel |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Ruwedel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ikonNAAACAAJ |title=Westward the Course of Empire |publisher=Yale University Press |others=Jock Reynolds (essay) |year=2008 |isbn=978-0300141344 |location=New Haven, CT |type=photography art book}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Clifford |author-link=Clifford Ross |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029964/seen-and-imagined/ |title=Seen & Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross |publisher=MIT Press |others=David Anfam (essay), Quentin Bajac (essay), Arthur Danto (essay), Jack Flam (essay), Nicholas Negroponte (essay), Jock Reynolds (essay) |year=2015 |editor-last=Thompson |editor-first=Joseph |editor-last2=Clarke |editor-first2=Jay A.}}
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Category:University of California, Davis alumni