JENNY CARLSSON GRIP
In the realm of Jenny Carlsson Grip, nature plays the main character. The soil, the trees, the grass, the lakes, the skies, the light, the shadows, are all elements the artist conveys. Having grown up in the countryside, Carlsson Grip has no romanticized view of human’s relation to nature. She knows the wet and the cold, as well as the wind and the sun. Impressions from various shifts in perspective of woods and open fields are distilled through her paint, that transcends into something larger than oil on canvas. Her tool may be a brush, but her literal physical approach includes working directly with her fingers and letting paint pour freshly out of the tube. Abstraction meets figurations where lines and fields of color interplay to create a highly three-dimensional surface, reminiscent of nature’s own topology.
Jenny Carlsson Grip, born 1984, lives and works in Ronneby, Sweden. Jenny Carlsson Grip holds a BFA and MFA from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden, 2013.
Jenny Carlsson Grip’s work has been shown at Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde, Stockholm; Norrtälje konsthall; Malmö Konsthall; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Kulturcentrum Ronneby konsthall; Umeå Konstmuseum; Kalmar Konstmuseum; Färgfabriken, Stockholm; Galerie Forsblom in Stockholm and Helsinki, among others.
Jenny Carlsson Grip has received grants from The Swedish Art Grants Committee, Svenska Konstnärernas Förening and Vera och Göran Agnekils Stipendium from Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. Jenny Carlsson Grip is the recipient of Åke Andrén Foundation Art Award 2022.
Jenny Carlsson Grip’s work is in the permanent collection of Stockholms stad; Uppsala kommun; Karlskrona kommun; Karlshamns kommun; Västerbottens museum; Blekinge museum; TIA-collections, US; and Aalto University, Finland, among others.