Jenna Gribbon: Entwined

Jenna Gribbon: Entwined is the first major solo museum exhibition devoted to the paintings of Jenna Gribbon, bringing together more than forty works created from 2001 to the present, including ambitious new canvases made specifically for the exhibition. On view in the Rose Art Museum’s Lois Foster Wing, the exhibition traces Gribbon’s development as a figurative painter through luminous color, inventive compositions, and emotionally charged scenes.

Known for intimate portraits of family, friends, and especially her wife, musician Mackenzie Scott, who performs as TORRES, Gribbon explores the shifting relationships among artist, subject, viewer, observation, and performance. Organized chronologically and thematically, the exhibition considers love, desire, memory, perception, identity, reciprocity, care, and radical empathy. It presents intimacy not merely as a subject but as the foundation of Gribbon’s practice, examining how relationships shape both the people depicted and the act of painting itself.

When: August 19, 2026–January 3, 2027

Venue: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Lois Foster Wing

Tickets: Price not available

Artist: Jenna Gribbon, born in 1978 in Knoxville, Tennessee

Works: More than forty paintings made between 2001 and the present, including new works created for the exhibition

Featured subject: Gribbon’s wife, musician Mackenzie Scott, who performs as TORRES, appears among the artist’s recurring subjects alongside family and friends

Curators: Chad Sirois, Senior Curator and Associate Director of Communications, and Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator

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