Sloppy, Intentional, Alive
Appearing in an easy and sloppy aesthetic, Jenny Brosinski regularly uses raw canvases to create large mixed media paintings. She is best known for her compositions that carry typical lightness and simplicity — while she deconstructs her canvas into new creations, gathering classic oil colours with dirt, dust, household detergent, or machine laundry.
Her process-orientated approach lets us participate in her studio experience. She uses her fascination for materials, incompleteness, and failure to create paintings which are often compared to minimalism, calligraphic aesthetics, écriture automatique, or children's mark-making. But these comparisons are starting points, not conclusions.
Art History as Contemporary Dialogue
In Jenny's work, art history is transformed into a contemporary dialogue. This artist shifts our perception by inspiring us to imagine that we can smell what we see and see what we hear. If we open up, we can perceive and sense that her paintings are — quite literally — a space to listen.
The show embraces tension. There is no easy resolution between the gestural and the deliberate, the finished and the abandoned. The pauses between actions become as charged as the actions themselves. A painting is not done when everything is added — it is done when nothing more can be removed without loss.
When Brosinski was recently in Paris for the opening, she made a point of visiting Martha Jungwirth's exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac. "It felt like healing to me," she said. That kind of looking — attentive, generous, nourishing — runs through everything she makes.
Oil · Dirt · Dust · Household Detergent · Machine Laundry · Raw Canvas
