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Dog Tricks

Jenna Gribbon

Dates
04.06.2024 | 15.06.2024
Gallery
Pièce Unique
File
PRESS RELEASE

MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique is very pleased to present Dog Tricks, Jenna Gribbon’s first solo presentation in Paris. On this occasion, Gribbon invited author Haydée Touitou to respond to the works.

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Jenna Gribbon

Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1978. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, US.


Gribbon’s paintings explore the feelings and implications of seeing and being seen. Her paintings are intimate portraits of her friends, partner, family and fellow painters, which encourage the viewer to reflect on their role as a consumer of beauty, and intimacy and as voyeurs of the narratives of others.


A focus on vision permeates every layer of Gribbon’s work, with titles such as ‘Ritualized Looking’, ‘Deck Peek’ and ‘When I looked at you, the light changed’. The scenes are painted from Gribbon’s first point perspective, making the artist’s presence felt by emphasising her particular viewpoint. The viewer directly replaces the artist, seeing Gribbon’s subject from the exact position that she occupied in the scene, not only looking at the subject but invited to view Gribbon’s own experience of looking at them

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