Girolamo in her Studio on film by Rachel Sperry, 2025.
Biography
Jenna Girolamo (b.1998) is an intrinsic, intuitive painter from upstate New York. Currently based in Maine, she focuses on nurturing a healing process-oriented studio practice. Recently, Girolamo received her MFA from the Maine College of Art and Design (2025) after earning her BFA from Nazareth University (Painting, 2020). Girolamo’s passion lies within her growing knowledge of the spiritual realm, grounding alignment, and the connection formed with her inner self and the Earth’s energy.
Her work is a relationship with the vibrational fields of the Earth and the connection between self and nature. Through connection, attention to form, and the inquiry of space, Girolamo’s work emphasizes harmonic unity with the pattern the surface. The repetitive use of form, color, and action within the process produces a meditative experience.
Recently discovered within in her graduate studies, Girolamo is exploring the notion of interpreting the Earth’s rhythm into physical form as a way of intentional healing. This is manifested through the arrival of geometric structures, cutting the canvas, hand sewing, addition of glass beads and the natural dye processes.
Today, Jenna Girolamo finds her inspiration within Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, Vivian Sutter, Helen Frankenthaler, Nature, the connection with the Universe and with others. These discoveries are continued to be explored, embarked on and expanded.
Artist Statement
My work places emphasis on the awareness of energy that has a subtle vibrational effect on the body. The paintings reflect a geometric pattern derived from intentional connectivity to the Earth’s energetic rhythm. By becoming aware of subtle vibrations, we co-exist with the energy rhythm of the Earth and fall into a broader alignment. This acknowledgment of awareness is the longevity of healing Earthside. Since every step of the creative process is carried out to attune to align with the Earth, the canvas itself is of the Earth. This intention is emphasized through the unstretched canvas, natural dye colorant, surface stitching, and glass bead adornments to create each painting structurally.
Not only is the work functioning as an individual field of center, but by being in the presence of the paintings, energy is emitted into the environment, creating a space of alignment and harmony. The work provides a place to rest, to be deeply attuned to its surface, and to have an individual experience with it. By being aware of the embedded energetic relations of the surfaces, the body is more readily available to resonate with being grounded within the energy of the Earth.
Like I said, the work acts as a bridge, thus concluding that these paintings provide the potential to encourage alignment by spending time with them. Energetic relations emerge not only in the work's final installation but throughout its entire becoming process.
