Jenna Gribbon valuation
Paints her partner and friends in close, candid moments, with a strong sense of being looked at back.
Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1978 and works in New York.
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Bio
Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1978 and works in New York. Her paintings are intimate, often close-up scenes of her wife, the musician Mackenzie Scott, who records as Torres, and of friends — bathing, dressing, lying in bed, performing — painted in a fluid realist manner with occasional passages of fluorescent colour. The work is preoccupied with the act of looking, and with what changes when the person being looked at seems to know it.
Paintings are the main event, from small panels to large canvases, with works on paper and a limited number of editions. Subjects recur, so title, date and dimensions matched to the gallery's records identify a painting. The fluorescent pigments that appear in some works are more sensitive to light than conventional colour, so display conditions and any fading are part of condition.
Georgia, the Oracle Club and the Frick
Gribbon was born Jenna Brown and studied drawing and painting at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art, graduating in 2001. After moving to New York in 2003 she worked for a time as a colour technician for Jeff Koons, and in 2006 she painted copies of three portraits for Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette. From 2010 to 2016 she ran the Oracle Club, a literary salon and workspace in Long Island City, with the writer Julian Tepper, and in 2019 she took an MFA at Hunter College.
In 2022 the Frick Collection hung her painting What Am I Doing Here? I Should Ask You the Same beside Holbein's Thomas Cromwell, in the place usually given to his Thomas More, and that October her solo show Mirages opened at the Collezione Maramotti. Her son Silas is a frequent subject alongside Scott, and she painted the covers of the Torres albums Silver Tongue and Thirstier.
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