The work of Chelsea, New York artist Jenna Lash is most often focused on money. Her oversized oil and acrylic paintings explore her ongoing fascination with international and American currency while reworking the formal aspects of familiar images. Some of the works are as large as 60 X 96 inches.

Numerous trips around the world have informed her aesthetic. The artist’s neo-pointillist images bring attention to money’s beauty and symbolism. Her larger-than-life portraits of national and international leaders are often part of her images. Complex layers of tradition give insight to the meaning of currency, culture, and history.

Lash’s fresh, powerful artwork transcends its relevance to finance and history. Robert Kirsch, a former Columbia University Art History Professor and published art critic writes:

Lash’s works are of feeling as much as paintings of the external world, and as such breathe a fineness and sensitivity not often found in contemporary visual arts… There is in these paintings an aim for simplicity but also for multiplicity: of color, stoke, beat, meter…

Lash has had fourteen solo shows in New York and has been selected for over thirty juried group exhibitions. She has a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. from New York University, and has studied at the American Academy in Rome.

Her work is collected by corporate executives, law and accounting firms, currency traders, hedge-fund operators, brokerage companies, and patrons of the arts. Lash resides in Lower Manhattan. Her website is www.jennalash.com