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① Artwork:
Affliction of the Tongue
In this work, a hand aggressively grips a dog’s pink, wet mouth. The rest of the animal’s body blends into the background void, allowing a moment of speculation about the beast’s true nature. DeLuna often uses dog imagery to explore themes surrounding domesticity, aggression, power, and companionship.
Jen DeLuna’s work explores moments of vulnerability confessed through figures and animals. Using her robust collection of found photographs from thrift stores, family photo albums, and eBay as starting points, DeLuna depicts classic representations of domesticity, beauty, love, and femininity to distill memory into nostalgia.
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③ Artist:
Jen DeLuna’s work explores the moments of vulnerability confessed through figures and animals. She uses her robust collection of found photographs from thrift stores, family photo albums, and eBay as the basis for her paintings. DeLuna depicts classic representations of domesticity, beauty, love, and femininity as memories, some wistfully fading and others stuck in a glossy state of film or porcelain. Her paintings distill memory into nostalgia: perilous beauties, fearful beasts, and intimate moments.
Jen DeLuna was born in 1999 in Mobile, AL, and lives in Boston, MA. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA (2021).
She has exhibited at Storage Gallery in New York, NY, The Miller Institute for Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, PA, IRL Gallery in New York, NY, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT, and Soft Times in San Francisco, CA.
Her art has been reviewed in Family Style, Yale Radio, and White Hot Magazine.
