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Oda Jaune Portrait 2024 © Charles Roussel
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, the rare and uncanny Oda Jaune unveils a challenging exhibition in New York. “Miss Understand” offers a series of nearly 25 new oil paintings and dozens of watercolors, on a singular perception of the woman in our time.
Oda Jaune, Bulgarian in origin and trained in Germany, has for nearly 15 years been among the most intriguing figures on the European art scene with a body of work freed from any pictorial convention. Poetic, sensual, and expansive, her painting ignites conversation and explores, without inhibition, the depth of femininity today.
ODA JAUNE G like Guerrilla Girl, 2023 Huile sur toile | oil on canvas 120 × 170 cm — 47 1/4 × 67 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline. All photos: © Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York.
ODA JAUNE A like Apple, 2023 Huile sur toile | oil on canvas 170 × 120 cm — 67 × 47 1/4 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline. All photos: © Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York.
Installation view of Oda Jaune's Miss Understand at Templon, NY. Photo: Charles Roussel.
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, the rare and uncanny Oda Jaune unveils a challenging exhibition in New York. “Miss Understand” offers a series of nearly 25 new oil paintings and dozens of watercolors, on a singular perception of the woman in our time.
Oda Jaune, Bulgarian in origin and trained in Germany, has for nearly 15 years been among the most intriguing figures on the European art scene with a body of work freed from any pictorial convention. Poetic, sensual, and expansive, her painting ignites conversation and explores, without inhibition, the depth of femininity today.
ODA JAUNE G like Guerrilla Girl, 2023 Huile sur toile | oil on canvas 120 × 170 cm — 47 1/4 × 67 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline. All photos: © Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York.
ODA JAUNE A like Apple, 2023 Huile sur toile | oil on canvas 170 × 120 cm — 67 × 47 1/4 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline. All photos: © Courtesy the artist and TEMPLON, Paris —Brussels — New York.
Installation view of Oda Jaune's Miss Understand at Templon, NY. Photo: Charles Roussel.
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