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Alexandra Penney is an American artist, journalist, and author.
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Alexandra Penney is an American artist, journalist, and author.
Penney was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Greek-American parents. She graduated from Smith College with a BA in Philosophy, and due to financial needs as a single mother, she entered the area of journalism. Her first job was as an assistant editor at Vogue, which she left to complete a Master's degree in Art, also at Smith College. Subsequently, Penney began her career as a painter, with several group shows in New York[ clarification needed ] to her credit. She continued to paint and work as a freelancer for various magazines, and she wrote a weekly column at the New York Times Magazine. She was the author of the best-seller How to Make Love to a Man, which was on The New York Times best-seller list for over a year. She returned to Conde Nast as editor of Self, where she conceived and created the Pink Ribbon. With the help of self-editors and the support of her friend and breast cancer survivor, Evelyn Lauder, she propelled the ribbon into an international symbol. During the years she was an author and journalist, Penney continued to paint small-scale works. She returned full-time to art the week after 9/11.
As an artist, she has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Germany, and Miami.
As editor of Self magazine, Penney succeeded the founder, Phyllis Starr, who died of breast cancer. Wanting to pay tribute to Starr and knowing that the fight against breast cancer was nationally underfunded, Penney, working with Nancy Smith, the executive editor of Self, created the first pink ribbon with the permission of SI Newhouse Jr., the owner of Condé Nast. At a meeting on the same day that the ribbon was created, she called Evelyn Lauder, a friend and breast cancer survivor, to edit the first breast cancer issue of Self and to ask for her help in getting the pink ribbon to Estée Lauder customers. Lauder, then Senior Vice President of Estée Lauder, immediately responded positively and began to take the pink ribbon global through Estée Lauder sales counters. Lauder and Penney worked to popularize the ribbon through the magazine and through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which was founded by Lauder. Both Penney and Lauder were commended at the White House by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.
Having been employed by the magazine since 1989, Penney left in 1994 to assume a role as a consultant for start-up magazines looking for opportunities in print and new media. Less than a week later, Penney announced that she would stay at Self, where she wanted to continue the challenge of surpassing the magazine's records for advertising revenue and circulation that had been set during her tenure there.
On September 11[ when? ] Penney quit journalism to once again pursue her career in art. While at Condé Nast, she had worked with leading photographers Avedon, Penn, and Newton,[ clarification needed ] and decided to change direction by exploring digital photography. Her first New York City solo show at the Julie Lavin Gallery focused on very large-scale digitally manipulated flowers. Flowers have been a continuing theme in her work to date.
While working with flowers, she also photographed cheap plastic blow-up sex dolls. These large-scale color images were intended to provide a visual report on the role of women and consumerism. They were shown at Miami Basel with the Haas und Fuchs Gallery, and later in a solo show in Berlin. The series, World of Women, is a result of Penney's ongoing and numerous travels in Europe, Asia, and South America. It portrays the dolls as subjects of controversial gender issues. In 2010-12, the dolls were depicted in large-scale black and white images, drowned or in dire circumstances, which were an immediate reaction to her experience as a casualty of Bernard Madoff. These images were the subject of a solo show at the Michael Fuchs Gallery in New York in 2009. Her latest controversial series, The Innocents, created in 2013, represents the plastic, overly adorned babies 'born' to the profligate blow-up dolls.
Penney, working on a book of her Madoff experience, began to photograph foreclosed houses, as visual signifiers of the economic meltdown. The art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, writing in The Art Newspaper, 2010, said, "The Foreclosures are starkly beautiful, with saturated color, which makes them more haunting". Penney said "The Foreclosures series will continue as long as houses of the poor are at risk."
Her 143-page-long book How to Make Love to a Man became a best-seller in 1981. The book took two years for Penney to research, which included interviewing more than 200 men and reading numerous books, but her biggest challenge was writing it in a tone that would be acceptable to the mass market. Clarkson Potter gave an advance of $75,000 for the book, its largest to that time, but wanted extensive changes after Penney delivered the initial manuscript. The book was published on May 22, 1981, and had sold 130,000 copies within its first five months, and had paperback rights sold to Dell Publishing for $275,000. The book, still in print with over 29 printings, has been translated into 21 languages.
Self magazine's first annual issue for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month came after an April 1991 lunch at the 21 Club, at which Penney discussed ideas for articles about breast cancer with her friend Evelyn Lauder, who was then the Senior Corporate Vice President of the Estée Lauder Companies and was also a member of the board of overseers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. [1]
Together with Evelyn Lauder, Penney established The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and formalized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness as part of Self magazine's second annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue in 1992. Penney's inspiration to improve on the success of the magazine's first annual issue was to create a ribbon that would be placed in Estee Lauder's New York City stores. Evelyn Lauder made the commitment to have the ribbons placed on the company's cosmetics counters across the United States. [2] [3]
Having been employed by the magazine since 1989, Penney left Self in July 1994 to assume the position of director of new media development at Condé Nast Publications, in which she would be responsible for developing new opportunities in print and broadcast media for the firm. [4] Less than a week later, Penney announced that she would stay at Self where she wanted to pursue the challenge of surpassing the magazine's records for advertising revenue and circulation that had been set during her tenure at the magazine. [5]
Penney had earned a substantial amount of money from her writing, almost all of which was invested with Bernie Madoff after a good friend steered her to Madoff in the 1990s, assuring her that her money would be safe. As of early 2009, she owned an artist's studio in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, a cottage in West Palm Beach, Florida, and what was described as a "beach shack" in Wainscott, New York, all of which she had paid for over four decades from her earnings. While she did not disclose the amount of her losses at the advice of her lawyers, Penney indicated that she still had enough money in her checking account to last a few months. [2] Penney wrote a series of posts on The Daily Beast titled "The Bag Lady Papers" starting in December 2008 in which she chronicled her experiences and feelings in the wake of the Madoff scandal. [6]
Penney lives and works in Manhattan with her partner, artist Dennis Ashbaugh.
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