ART
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
photo by CARY WHITTIER
all artwork courtesy of the artist
and FREDERICKS & FREISER, new york
“I always had a kind of love experience with my subjects. Painting someone is a very loving process — it’s very physical and devotional. I want the viewer to have a love experience when looking at my paintings”.
OLIVIER ZAHM — There are people in most of your paintings. And you always start from a picture that you took yourself, right?
JENNA GRIBBON — Yes, the paintings start from a moment that’s “real,” whatever that means, that I capture with a photo. But I think a lot about memory and how we construct personal narratives. It changes the way we remember things to document our lives so much. It affects the way that we construct our personal narrative. So, there’ll be a person who feels real, but then…