JENNA GRIBBON THE AMERICAN PAINTER’S LARGE-SCALE FEMALE NUDES, PORTRAITS, AND SELF-PORTRAITS DIRECTLY CONFRONT THE MALE GAZE WITH AN INTIMATE LOOK AT WOMAN-TO-WOMAN RELATIONS. “This question implies that the medium of painting is intrinsically male and being transformed by a feminizing force. In actuality, good art employs both the masculine and feminine in tandem. It’s just that now woman-identifying artists are less invisible in their practice of the genderless alchemy of painting.”
JENNA GRIBBON, ACID ROCOCO TENDERSCAPE, 2021, OIL ON LINEN, 80x64 INCHES, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST, MASSIMODECARLO, AND FREDERICKS & FREISER, NY, COPYRIGHT ADAGP, PARIS, 2022, PHOTO TODD-WHITE ART PHOTOGRAPHY