JENNA GRIBBON

Magnetic Strokes of Intimacy

Jenna Gribbon

New York, USA www.fredericksfreisergallery.com/artists/jenna-gribbon

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, artist Jenna Gribbon is now based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is mesmerizing, paintings teeming with details and mind-bending layers, it has been exhibited in galleries all over the world, with a recent solo show at GNYP Gallery in Berlin. She usually paints her friends, her son and her fiancé, singer Mackenzie Scott––often portraying very intimate moments of her life, sometimes overtly sexual, always looking at her subjects with kind and curious eyes, almost making the viewer feel the vibrating love from the strokes of her brush.

Struggling in her early career as an artist, her first jobs included cocktail waitressing in a strip club and assisting at Jeff Koons’s studio. After some detours, becoming a mother and closing down the Oracle Club (a creative space she founded with her partner at the time) Gribbon decided to reinvest herself in art, enrolling in the MFA program at Hunter College: a decision that proved to be a great point of inflection in her career and coincided with a big change in her personal life—both of which are mirrored in her work from that time.

Jenna Gribbon

Yard Squint, 2020

Oil on Linen

76.20 x 60.96 cm

Courtesy of the Artist and Fredericks & Freiser, NY