Jenny Carlsson Grip

Face the dawn

V1 SALON is pleased to present

Face the Dawn
A solo exhibition by Jenny Carlsson Grip

OPENING RECEPTION: TUESDAY AUGUST 26. TIME: 16.00 – 20.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: AUGUST 26 – SEPTEMBER 13. 2025

In my work, the landscape is a scene where the forces of nature can run free. I paint my canvases out in the terrain, right at the meeting point between the cultured and the wild, the raw living dirt and the blindingly beautiful.
I put on the soil in broad strokes on the linen surface. Build up heavy bodies of colour, letting the paint pour. Hollow trunks and thorny vines stretches out of pitch dark forests and the oily puddles that flow in the ditches. I scratch the colour with my fingers, making branches glow blood red towards the first light, and steadying the ground with layers of umber and golden ochre.

Flowers stay from the night, broken violets, like secrets from the deep mud and dark lakes. Thorns and wildweeds stand witness to the passing of time, they are both the end and the start of the cycle, pearls glowing out of rising growth and the flying light, as the landscape face the dawn.

- Jenny Carlsson Grip, June 2025. 

Jenny Carlsson Grip, born 1984, lives and works in Ronneby, Sweden. She holds a BFA and MFA from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden, 2013.
Her work has been shown at Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde, Stockholm; Norrtälje konsthall; Malmö Konsthall; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Kulturcentrum Ronneby Konsthall; Bildmuseet, Umeå; Kalmar konstmuseum; Färgfabriken, Stockholm; Galerie Forsblom in Stockholm and Helsinki, Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, among others.