Jena K. Carvana
Jena is the curatorial associate for Painting and Sculpture of Europe. Since joining the Art Institute in 2015, she has worked on a number of gallery and permanent collection research projects and has provided exhibition research support for El Greco: Ambition and Defiance (2020), Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape (2023), and Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome (2023). Before joining the Art Institute, she held collection and curatorial internships at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Royal Armories, Leeds; and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Jena received a master of arts degree in medieval history from the University of Leeds with a dissertation on Alfonso VI’s treatment of non-Christian populations and spaces during his conquest of Toledo, Spain.
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Finding Inspiration in the Tensions of Modernity
In the 1880s the new mix of industry and nature in the evolving Parisian suburbs prompted Van Gogh and his contemporaries to experiment with radical painting approaches.
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Five Artists Along the Seine
Between 1882 and 1890 Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand explored the landscape along the river Seine northwest of Paris.
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