Fine artist Jemima Kirke is best known for her roles in Tiny
Furniture and the HBO series Girls, both created by friend Lena Dunham. In the second season of Girls, Jemima’s
character Jessa paints a portrait of her then-husband, a scene which miffed
Kirke, “I was a little pissed at the moment, when I saw that painting as a
prop…It’s just a little close to home.
And only because I have been been very vocal about the fact that I make
artwork, so I don’t want this to be seen as mine. Not that there was anything wrong with it; it
just wasn’t me.” Kirke’s paintings are
influenced by the work of Edouard Mamet and Lucian Freud and one can sense a
bit of Francesco Clemente in her portraits.
As her website describes the work, “By turns both heart-breakingly
intimate and ultimately entirely distant, Kirke flees from obvious
representations of her subject matter to focus on underlying darkness and the
interplay of pathology that exists between artist and the person studied. Her practice highlights the uncanny moment of
fusion between the sitter’s projected identity and the internal character that
the artist imposes upon her subject.”
She is currently signed on to portray Jessa in season three of
Girls. For more information regarding
Kirke’s fine art, please click here.
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-Jayme Catalanohttp://jaymecatalano.com
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