Jenna Lash

Faceless Figures, bright pointillist patterns text global currency

2016

Jenna Lash is a visual artist who is fascinated by currency. Her interest is in diverse cultures and how their identities are represented by their money. Through the prism of her work, Lash’s art reflects her impressions of countries’ symbolic representations of their financial systems. Lash’s enlarged paintings of currency also bring attention to money’s beauty and symbolism. Through it’s focus on currency and culture, Lash’s work clarifies its meaning, that of the nature of value and its measure. The accessibility of her paintings encourages viewers to relate to and understand their intrinsic connection to currency and its place in a global society. Lash’s unique contemporary work has been written up by Ralph Gardner of “The Wall Street Journal,” and “Bloomberg News” for her solo show in Lugano, Switzerland. “The National Art Museum and Gallery Guide,” and “The Art Now/New York Gallery Guide,” have both displayed illustrations of her work in their magazines. Lash has had fifteen solo shows, and has been in more than thirty juried group exhibitions, in the U.S. and abroad. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and a Master’s of Arts Degree from New York University. She has also studied at the American Academy of Rome. Her work is held in private collections in the United States and in Europe.