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① Artwork:
Bare
In this painting, a woman’s sweaty, teeth-baring smile is presented in uncomfortably close view. Drawing from her archive of found photographs, DeLuna frequently explores the idea of removing subjects from their original context, questioning whether new depth emerges through the absence of information.
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.
