Jenna Gribbon
Overview
Jenna Gribbon's paintings draw from memory, art history, and contemporary life. Her syncretic canvases draw on several centuries of painting: figures disporting themselves in a sylvan setting recall Fragonard's fêtes galantes; an interiors swiftly brushed-on walls evoke the cursory backgrounds of Mary Cassatt; gently distorted architectural features summon the laissez-faire depictions of Karen Kilimnik. Sampling freely from various representational techniques and movements, Jenna Gribbon's paint handling swerves from the virtuosic to the intentionally slapdash; fast, impressionistic strokes often about minutely illustrated details, highlighting the artist's interest in collapsing numerous pictorial strategies into a single canvas.
Jenna Gribbon (b. 1978 in Knoxville, TN) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She was recently featured on the cover of Purple Magazine. She has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville; Ft. Worth Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, the Kurpfalzicches Museum, Heidelberg, The Frick Museum, NY and others.
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