
GRACE WEAVER
Untitled (Woman), 2021
Oil on canvas
95 x 89 in.
241.3 x 226.1 cm.
JCG12977
GRACE WEAVER
Untitled (Woman), 2021
Oil on canvas
95 x 89 in.
241.3 x 226.1 cm.
JCG12984
GRACE WEAVER
Untitled (Woman), 2021
Oil on canvas
95 x 89 in.
241.3 x 226.1 cm.
JCG13006
GRACE WEAVER
Untitled (Woman), 2021
Oil on canvas
95 x 89 in.
241.3 x 226.1 cm.
JCG13009
GRACE WEAVER
Pitfall, 2021
Oil on canvas
89 x 95 in
226.1 x 241.3 cm
JCG12478
GRACE WEAVER
Get-together (II), 2021
Oil on canvas
49 x 45 in.
124.5 x 114.3 cm
JCG12482
GRACE WEAVER
Misstep, 2020
Oil on canvas
69 x 71 in.
175.3 x 180.3 cm
JCG11453
GRACE WEAVER
Confrontation, 2020
Oil on canvas
71 x 69 in.
180.3 x 175.3 cm
JCG11455
GRACE WEAVER
all the right angles, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 81 in.
231.1 x 205.7 cm
JCG10004
GRACE WEAVER
double dutch, 2017
Oil on canvas
90 x 80 in.
228.6 x 203.2 cm
JCG9387
GRACE WEAVER
Untitled (Woman), 2021
Oil on canvas
95 x 89 in.
241.3 x 226.1 cm.
JCG13007
GRACE WEAVER
Untitled (Woman), 2021
Oil on canvas
95 x 89 in.
241.3 x 226.1 cm.
JCG12979
GRACE WEAVER
Shame, 2020
Oil on canvas
71 x 65 in.
180.3 x 165.1 cm
JCG11454
GRACE WEAVER
Affront, 2020
Oil on acrylic
71 x 69 in.
180.3 x 175.3 cm
JCG11460
GRACE WEAVER
Crying (I, Upwards), 2020
Oil on canvas
45 x 41 in.
114.3 x 104.1 cm
JCG11456
GRACE WEAVER
Crying (II, Downwards), 2020
Oil on canvas
45 x 41 in.
114.3 x 104.1 cm
JCG11458
GRACE WEAVER
Stunt, 2020
Oil on canvas
71 x 65 in.
180.3 x 165.1 cm
JCG11457
GRACE WEAVER
Infinite Scroll, 2019
Oil on canvas
89 x 95 in.
226.1 x 241.3 cm
GRACE WEAVER
Parantheses, 2019
Oil on canvas
89 x 95 in.
226.1 x 241.3 cm
GRACE WEAVER
In-the-round, 2019
Oil on canvas
89 x 95 in.
226.1 x 241.3 cm
GRACE WEAVER
11:45 A.M., 2019
Oil on canvas
71 x 65 in.
180.3 x 165.1 cm
GRACE WEAVER
5:30 P.M., 2019
Oil on canvas
71 x 65 in.
180.3 x 165.1 cm
GRACE WEAVER
Dovetail, 2019
Oil on canvas
71 x 61 in.
180.3 x 241.3 cm
GRACE WEAVER
Comma, 2019
Oil on canvas
43 x 39 in.
109.2 x 99.1 cm
GRACE WEAVER
Ampersand, 2019
Oil on canvas
71 x 61 in
180.3 x 154.9 cm
JCG11123
GRACE WEAVER
slow dancers, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
50 1/2 x 40 1/2 in
128.3 x 102.9 cm
JCG10436
GRACE WEAVER
before the party, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
71 x 61 in.
180.3 x 154.9 cm
JCG10082
GRACE WEAVER
upkeep, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
89 x 95 in.
226.1 x 241.3 cm
JCG10002
GRACE WEAVER
peak season, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
89 x 95 in.
226.1 x 241.3 cm
JCG9930
GRACE WEAVER
account balance, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
81 x 71 in.
205.7 x 180.3 cm
JCG10001
GRACE WEAVER
underhanded, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 41 in.
129.5 x 104.1 cm
JCG10003
GRACE WEAVER
primer, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
71 x 61 in.
180.3 x 154.9 cm
JCG9932
GRACE WEAVER
ten-step, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
81 x 71 in.
205.7 x 180.3 cm
JCG9931
GRACE WEAVER
good intentions, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
71 x 61 in.
180.3 x 154.9 cm
JCG9933
GRACE WEAVER
DELI-GROCERY #2, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
71 x 61 in.
180.3 x 154.9 cm
JCG9737
GRACE WEAVER
haul, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
71 x 61 in.
180.3 x 154.9 cm
JCG9739
GRACE WEAVER
undercover, 2018
Acrylic and oil on canvas
37 x 33 in.
94 x 83.8 cm.
JCG9685
GRACE WEAVER
keeping pace, 2018
Charcoal on paper
24 x 18 in.
61.0 x 45.7 cm
JCG10146
GRACE WEAVER
layover, 2018
Charcoal on paper
23 1/2 x 18 in.
59.7 x 45.7 cm
JCG9979
GRACE WEAVER
topknot, 2018
Charcoal on paper
24 x 18 in.
61.0 x 45.7 cm
JCG10127
GRACE WEAVER
working from home, 2018
Charcoal on paper
24 x 18 in.
61.0 x 45.7 cm
JCG10142
GRACE WEAVER
tutorial, 2017
49 x 41 in.
124.5 x 104.1
JCG9388
GRACE WEAVER
catch as catch can, 2017
Oil on canvas
80 x 90 in.
203 x 228.6 cm
GRACE WEAVER
good form, 2017
Oil on canvas
63 x 53 in.
160 x 134.4 cm
GRACE WEAVER
window shopping, 2017
Oil on canvas
35 x 35 in.
90 x 90 cm
GRACE WEAVER
super special, 2017
Oil on canvas
79 x 70 in.
203 x 178 cm
GRACE WEAVER
finale, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 in.
153 x 127 cm
GRACE WEAVER
girl at brunch, 2017
Oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 29 7/8 in.
101 x 76 cm
GRACE WEAVER
last call, 2017
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 in.
153 x 127 cm
GRACE WEAVER
can’t & won’t, 2016
Oil on canvas
72 3/4 x 54 1/4 in.
185 x 138 cm
GRACE WEAVER
long story (short), 2016
Oil on canvas
59 3/4 x 43 1/4 in.
152 x 110 cm
GRACE WEAVER
the date, 2016
Oil on canvas
35 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.
91 x 91 cm
GRACE WEAVER
getaway, 2015
Oil on linen
78 x 70 in.
200 x 180 cm
GRACE WEAVER
love song, 2015
Oil on linen
64 1/8 x 50 in.
163 x 127 cm
GRACE WEAVER
lust for lite, 2015
Oil on linen
78 x 94 in.
200 x 240 cm
GRACE WEAVER
profile, 2015
Oil on linen
47 x 39 in.
120 x 100 cm
GRACE WEAVER
panhandle dreaming, 2015
Oil on canvas
59 x 48 in.
152 x 122 cm
Grace Weaver: STEPS. Film by Greg Poole. Produced by James Cohan, 2020.
In her striking portrayals of the tragicomic everyday, Grace Weaver examines the charged social and cultural conditions that underlie self-concept, intimacy, and individual experience. Depicting elastic-limbed, Mannerist figures that arrange themselves before mirrors and collide on street-corners with an unrelenting air of exuberance, her works contend with what she terms the “theater of public life.” In Weaver’s paintings, body becomes scenario: playful, sweeping lines and dense planes of luminous color act as linguistic elements, each directing its own physical weight and affect onto her female subjects.
In Weaver’s paintings, psychological narratives are suggested with an economy of expression—through the sideways tilt of a glance, the subtle curl of a lip, or the droopy slouch of a shoulder. Occupied with observations of self-conscious performativity and awkward aspirationalism, her work is grounded in an insistent empathy with her subjects. The protagonists in Weaver’s solitary female portraits are not necessarily drawn from life—rather, the artist considers them archetypes of feminine self-presentation. They are pictured in once-private spaces of preparation—the kitchen, the vanity mirror—that have become semi-public.
Looking toward influences that range from the torqued perspectives of American Regionalism to the gravity of Piero della Francesca’s paintings and the monumental figuration of Jose Clemente Orozco’s murals, within Weaver’s street scenes, the sidewalk serves as a stage upon which interpersonal dynamics and power struggles are played out. Alienation versus belonging, cruelty versus connection—the pains, pleasures, and anxieties of everyday existence are writ large in this collective space. Weaver playfully explores the contradictions embedded in this social fabric: who has power, who is powerless; who is revealed, and who is hidden from the gaze of the viewer. These scenes allow her to build an audience within the painting, creating a chorality within the picture plane. The cast of characters, like Weaver, are as much subject to performing a strata of social anxieties as they are to wryly observing them.
Grace Weaver (b. 1989, Vermont) received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, NY; Burlington, VT; Berlin and Reutlingen in Germany, Glasgow, Scotland; Chennai, India; and Marfa, TX, and is featured in the collections of FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France; ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark; the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; and the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China. In 2019, Weaver presented concurrent solo exhibitions at institutions in Germany: O.K., at Kunstpalais Erlangen and Little Sister at Oldenburger Kunstverein. The two museums have collaborated on the first monograph of the artist's work, published by Kerber Verlag. Weaver lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
In her striking portrayals of the tragicomic everyday, Grace Weaver examines the charged social and cultural conditions that underlie self-concept, intimacy, and individual experience. Depicting elastic-limbed, Mannerist figures that arrange themselves before mirrors and collide on street-corners with an unrelenting air of exuberance, her works contend with what she terms the “theater of public life.” In Weaver’s paintings, body becomes scenario: playful, sweeping lines and dense planes of luminous color act as linguistic elements, each directing its own physical weight and affect onto her female subjects.