Nash Glynn (born 1992) is an American artist working in

painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

, and

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

. She is known for her nude self-portraits and

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landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

and still lives. She frequently depicts herself in her paintings using a simple palette of just red, white, and blue. She has exhibited internationally at Company Gallery and

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in New York,

Vielmetter Los Angeles Vielmetter Los Angeles (formerly Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects) is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2000 by Susanne Vielmetter. The gallery is located in downtown Los Angeles. History Susanne Vielmetter launched her first gallery ...

, the

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and the

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, Maison Populaire in Paris, and the

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Early life and education

Glynn was born and raised in Miami, Florida and learned to paint while working at her father's set design shop. She graduated with a BFA from Tufts University in 2014 and with an MFA from Columbia University in 2017. During graduate school, Glynn medically transitioned from male to female.

Work

Glynn was a 2017–2018 Artist Fellow at the

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLMA), formerly the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, is a visual art museum in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It mainly collects, preserves and exhibits visual arts created by LGBTQ artists or ...

. In 2019, Glynn had a show at the non-profit gallery Participant, Inc. Titled ''The Future is Fiction'', the show included paintings, drawings, videos, and photography, in each Glynn used her body as a medium to contemplate and probe categories such as "nature," "female," and "human." Glynn uses the transfeminine form in against fast changing ecologies, claiming that climate change is not only as a problem of representation, but also as a threat to essentialist gender ideologies, such as who will be allocated certain resources before others. Later that year, Glynn delivered a talk on the artist and writer

Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portra ...

as part of the

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's 2019 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. In 2020, Glynn's solo show at

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featured one colossus-like self-portrait. Actress

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describes the painting, ''Self Portrait with One Foot Forward and One Hand Reaching Out''. Glynn had her first solo exhibition on the West Coast of the USA at Vielmetter Gallery in 2022. Titled, ''Interiors'', the ten-work show had some of her largest paintings to-date. Critic

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wrote of her work, they are: "scenic, frameable, and ruled by perspective; the inside world is paradoxically vast and unbounded." Glynn says that the show is full of contradictions and she tried, "to play with the sense that there is no negative space. That the spaces between things are as deeply definitive as the things themselves." In 2023, Glynn exhibited two paintings at

gallery alongside paintings by the artist and poet Ser Serpas and the photographer Sam Penn (which included images of writer Thora Siemsen, a muse in

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's work).

Public collections

References

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