For sale is a fine painting by the Philadelphia Artist Jenny Laden.
This work is from her 2004 series of portraits of women called 'Inhabit.'
The artist asked each person to allow her into their home, and to do things they do when they are by themselves, where the artist then depicted them in various states of being.
Here she captures a woman, named "Rebecca" according to the gallery label on reverse, doing what many of us do. Curled up on a couch with a warm blanket possibly staring at a TV screen. ...But one gets the sense she is pondering something more serious. Maybe love, relationships, or just life in general. Or maybe she's just hungover from the previous night out lol
Only the artist woukd know.
The buyer of this painting can reach out to the artist and solve the mystery should they need to know
Oil on vellum. Dated 2004
Artemis • Greenberg Van Doren • Gallery label on reverse
Christie's Auction house labels affixed to reverse
Gallery framed under plexiglass
Condition: Vert good. Minimal light scratches to plexi
***NOTE: PICS WERE TAKEN OUTDOORS IN NATURAL LIGHT. IMAGE IS SOMEWHAT DARKER INDOORS IN LOWER LIGHTING****
Measurements
Framed - 42 3/4” x 30 5/8”
Artwork - 41 1/2” x 29 1/2”
Jenny Laden an artist, writer, teacher, organizer, fundraiser and mother. She studied studio art and art history at Barnard College and has an MFA from New York University. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Washington, Richmond, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Berlin.
Jenny has worked as an art teacher, organized curriculum for COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) and spoke at numerous New York City high schools on AIDS Awareness. She is a founding board member of Groundwell, NYC. She worked in the art department for Knopf Books for Young Readers and as a puppet doctor for MTV’s “Celebrity Death Match.” She ran the Environmental Art Department at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and worked as Director of Development for for Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Jenny is currently the Director of Development for the Institute for Contemporary Art, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jenny lost her dad Richard to AIDS in 1992.
She lives in Philadelphia.
Her first book, “This Terrible True Thing,” will be published in fall 2023 by Blackstone publishing. It is a young adult visual novel, set in 1991 about a teenage girl whose gay father contracts HIV.