ON VIEW
April 18 – 16, 2025
May 8 – 17, 2025

OPENING RECEPTIONS
Friday, April 18, 5 – 7 pm
Thursday, May 8, 5 – 7 pm

Jenna Girolamo

www.jgartbuzz.com
@jgartbuzz

Jenna Girolamo (b.1998) is an intrinsic, intuitive painter from upstate New York. She is currently focusing on healing process-oriented work at the Maine College of Art and Design (MFA, 2025) after earning her BFA from Nazareth University (Painting, 2020). In 2021, Girolamo was featured in Life in The Finger Lakes magazine as an Up-and-Coming Artist, and in 2020 was granted the title of “Student Of The Year in Studio Art” from Nazareth University. She has held solo exhibitions in Rochester, NY, and most recently, in Portland, ME, where she has shown at Zand Head Gallery for a solo installation of ((Intention)) as well as a two-person exhibition at Easthaus Gallery. Girolamo has been featured in The Portland Logbook newsletter and participated in a Q&A with MFA candidates, an e-flux education online article. Girolamo has co-curated the Student Art Show (2019-2020, Nazareth University) and Peach Fuzz at Maine College of Art and Design (2024). While developing her MFA thesis, Girolamo has assisted in teaching textile surface manipulation design, honors drawing, and foundations in painting. She plans to continue the unfolding exploration of alignment through the creative process.

My work expands awareness of energy by exercising intentional connectivity to the Earth. The paintings reflect a geometric pattern derived from the Earth's vibration. The surfaces provide healing energies within the environment. This is emphasized through the unstretched canvas, natural dyes, surface stitching, and glass bead adornment to create each painting structurally. The steps of the creative process serve as a grounding point, forming a space that celebrates connectedness through wholeness. Energetic relations emerge not only in the work's final installation but throughout its entire becoming.



The MFA Thesis Exhibitions for the Class of 2025 incorporate a range of making practices unified by the overwhelming concerns these students have for their environment, their communities, their families, and their own wellbeing. With an emphasis on the personal, and at times the anecdotal, these 17 artists make a variety of contributions in the form of ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, prints, sculptures, sound and video installations, and textiles. The nature of their work and research demonstrates the caliber and cultural relevance of Maine College of Art & Design’s Masters in Fine Arts in Studio Art program.