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appropriated advertisements from luxury brands, recreating
WORLD-CLASS ART JASMINE GREGORY: Investment Piece No. 7 (2024) transform marketing slogans,
their photographic surfaces in oil paint. Works such as

“You never really own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after
WHO WANTS TO DIE FOR
it for the next generation” into satirical critiques of inheritance
GLAMOUR
and privilege. These highly rendered paintings are juxtaposed
MoMA PS1 presents Who Wants to Die for Glamour, the with stark monochrome canvases, destabilizing traditional
portraiture and consumer aesthetics.
first U.S. institutional exhibition of artist Jasmine Gregory. The exhibition title references John Waters’ Female Trouble
The exhibition showcases Gregory’s innovative approach to (1974), a nod to the spectacle of ambition and self-destruction
painting, incorporating meticulously rendered canvases into in artistic pursuit. Gregory’s work subverts conventional visual
expansive sculptural environments. codes, reimagining representations of Black excellence and
Gregory’s work challenges the material histories of image- virtuosity through experimental form.
making, intertwining paintings with objects like wine Born in Washington, D.C., Gregory (b. 1987) lives and
bottles, wire hangers, and tinsel to construct narratives of works in Zurich. She has exhibited at CAPC musée d’art
fragmentation and excess. At the heart of the exhibition is a contemporain de Bordeaux, Kunsthalle Zürich, and Le Centre
plexiglass vitrine, suspended from the gallery’s corners, evoking d’Art Contemporain Genève. Her work has been featured in
a disassembled trophy case, questioning notions of display, Artforum, BOMB, and Flash Art, among other publications.
preservation, and cultural legacy. Organized by Jody Graf, Assistant Curator, Who Wants to Die
Her practice engages directly with themes of racial capitalism, for Glamour offers an incisive exploration of art’s entanglement
transparency, and dissolution. Since 2022, Gregory has with desire, hierarchy, and spectacle.

Installation view of Jasmine Gregory: Who Wants to Die for Glamour, on
view at MoMA PS1 from October 10, 2024 through February 17, 2025.
Photo: Steven Panecassio

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