About the Artist
Chantal Joffe brings a combination of insight and integrity, as well as psychological and emotional force, to the genre of figurative art. Hers is a deceptively casual brushstroke. Whether in images a few inches square or ten feet high, fluidity combined with a pragmatic approach to representation seduces and disarms. Almost always depicting women or girls, sometimes in groups but recently in iconic portraits, Joffe’s paintings only waveringly adhere to their source – be it a photograph, magazine page or even a reflection in the mirror – instead reminding us that distortions of scale and form can often make a subject seem more real.
Survey: Selected Works
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Night Self-Portrait, February, 2018
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Big Head, 2019
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Self-Portrait I, October, 2018
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Moll in a Mustard Jacket, 2014
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Self-Portrait in a Red Jumper, 2015
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Self Portrait with Hand on Hip, 2014
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Brunette in a Car, 2013
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Moll Reclining, 2014
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Vita in the Borgese, 2013
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Big blonde in red dress, 2012
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Dan Eating a Banana, 2012
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Red Head on Ochre, 2012
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Self-Portrait with Esme and Spot, 2011
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Megan, 2010
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Man with a Drink, 2008
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Red Boat, 2008
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Anne Sexton with Joy, 2008
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Blonde Girl Sitting on a Picnic Table, 2007
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Woman in a Grecian Dress, 2007
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Black Sleeveless Dress, 2005
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Blond Girl - Black Dress, 2005
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Mother and Child II, 2005
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Untitled, 2005
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Big Head, 2003
In Focus
Chantal Joffe: Self-Portraits
On New Year’s Day, 2018, the artist set herself the challenge of working on a self-portrait every day for the coming year. This daily practice – through personal lows and highs, in the shifting white light of a prolonged London winter and the savage heat of New York in summer – has resulted in a series of characteristically unflinching works.