Jenna Gribbon
Summer Exhibition 2020
Frieze Redux
Reimagining our Virtual Booth from Frieze New York
July 10 – July 30, 2020 (By Appointment)
Jenna Gribbon
Jocelyn Hobbie
Haley Josephs
Mary Reid Kelley
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present Frieze Redux, a group exhibition of work by Jenna Gribbon, Jocelyn Hobbie, Haley Josephs, and Mary Reid Kelley. The exhibition in the physical gallery will highlight a selection of work that was exhibited online at the Frieze New York art fair by Jenna Gribbon, Jocelyn Hobbie, Haley Josephs, and Mary Reid Kelley. Though widely divergent in their processes, these artists share in representing contemporary culture through a mix of history, private experience, sexuality, and figuration. The exhibition will afford the opportunity to view in person work made especially for the art fair. It will also include a few additional works made during the quarantine.
JENNA GRIBBON’s paintings draw from memory, art history, and contemporary life. Her syncretic canvases draw on several centuries of painting: figures disporting themselves in a sylvan setting recall Fragonard’s fêtes galantes; an interior’s swiftly brushed-on walls evoke the cursory backgrounds of Mary Cassatt; gently distorted architectural features summon the laissez-faire depictions of Karen Kilimnik. Sampling freely from various representational techniques and movements, Gribbon’s paint handling swerves from the virtuosic to the intentionally slapdash; fast, impressionistic strokes often abut minutely illustrated details, highlighting the artist’s interest in collapsing numerous pictorial strategies into a single canvas. Ms. Gribbon’s recent group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Nino Mier Gallery, LA; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Mathew Brown Gallery, LA; and Galerie Perrotin, New York.
For over 20 years, JOCELYN HOBBIE has painted the figure. From her earlier dream-like narratives to her most recent paintings of flawlessly articulated women, Hobbie has fused themes of mortality, eroticism and a persistent disaffection with contemporary life. Echoing styles as divergent as the expressive figuration of New Objectivity and the layered patterning of Ukiyo-e, Hobbie hones a formal inventiveness in which neoclassical figures are depicted amid bold patterning and vivid floral settings. Her heightened naturalism and enhanced degree of saturated color reveal an uneasy relationship to realism and firmly root these striking paintings in the age of post abstraction. Her most recent group exhibitions include “Hope and Hazerd: A Comedy of Eros” at Hall Art Foundation curated by Eric Fischl and “Vanquishing Ocular” at Rental Gallery curated by David Salle and Nicole Wittenberg.
Brooklyn-based painter HALEY JOSEPHS makes enigmatic paintings of powerful, archetypal women, often engaged in private activities or rituals that can be both disturbing and absurd. Painted on black canvases, her images feature rich, saturated color, as if the landscapes are on fire, or infused with the dramatic light of toxic sunsets. Haley Josephs received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2011 and her MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University in 2014. She has exhibited locally and internationally. Her next solo show will open at Fredericks & Freiser in March 2021.
MARY REID KELLEY combines painting, performance, and her distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in polemical, graphically stylized videos. Made in collaboration with her partner Patrick Kelley, these videos have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, the ICA Boston, and SITE Santa Fe. European solo exhibitions include Tate Liverpool, Kunsthalle Bremen, Museum M, Leuven, and Neuer Kunstverein Wien with upcoming shows at The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2021). Their video work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, La Reppublica, Vogue, The New Yorker, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, ARTnews, and Art in America. Mary and Patrick live and work in upstate New York.
