Purchase Jenny Calivas' fine print from 2023 and receive a free copy of her signed contact sheet from her 2023 exhibition at Light Work, Surface Thing. Please note the frame is not included.
Contact Sheet
Contact Sheet 220: Jenny Calivas
Publisher: Light Work (January 2023)
ISBN: 978-1-945725-30-2
Surface Thing exhibition comprises three photographic projects made between 2018 and 2021, Mouthing, Self-Portraits While Buried, and Birth Rehearsal, all of which portray various types of self-portraits. The show presents works about the body and the earth in ways that are spiritual, feminist, and ecological through a humorous and existential perspective. Calivas’ black and white images can unexpectedly taunt us, at once generous and withholding, still and active. Her pictures are part of photography’s long conversation about the tension between chance (the decisive moment) and control (the staged).
Fine Print
Self Portrait While Buried #6, 2019
Archival inkjet print, 11x13.75" image on 13x15.75" paper
Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist
Jenny Calivas’ black and white images can unexpectedly taunt us, at once generous and withholding, still and active. Her pictures are part of photography’s long conversation about the tension between chance (the decisive moment) and control (the staged). Self-Portraits While Buried (2019-2021) features photographs where she has buried herself in the earth from which she sometimes seems to re-emerge as well. These pictures live in the realm of female experience and feminist making; the work suggests a new creation myth, a maternal purging or dissolving of the original form to make way for a new body.
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Jenny Calivas was born in Maine and lives in Los Angeles, CA. In 2018, she earned her MFA in photography from The Yale School of Art where she was awarded the Ward Chaney Memorial Prize in performance. In 2016 she was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work as been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, David Zwirner in New York City, LTD Los Angeles, Huxley Parlour in London, Buoy Gallery in Kittery, Maine and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, Maine. Recent publications featuring her work include Speciwomen, Paper Journal, and HyperAllergic. She is a lecturer in Visual Arts at Princeton University and has also taught at Wesleyan University, Parsons School of Art and Design and the Borough of Manhattan Community College.