Jenna Pirello

Lives and works in Portland, ME, USA

Artist statement

As a process based painter, I have directed her focus towards the breakdown of a gesture within a painting in order to reframe the complicated relationship between the maker, viewer and object. How we orient ourselves in relation to both each other and an object has become an important element of my practice. While our presence on earth shifts from inhabitants to true threats, as our basic human rights come into question, and as the escalating dependency on technology grows rapid, I have found my relationship to making to be increasingly intimate and meditative. Treating my body as a shapeshifter, I move rhythmically to change the pace, pressure and intention through various ways of touching the surface.

Artwork