GEEP WARHAFTIG


Painting
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Geep Warhaftig’s (b. 1994: Bronx, NY) work challenges concepts of survival, identity, and negotiation. Working primarily in autobiographical figurative painting, her work questions what it takes to inhabit the body. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States including Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, The Glove, New York, NY, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, and The Guthrie, Salt Lake City, UT. She is a former Fulbright Scholar Finalist (2020) and an awarded artist residence at The Guthrie in Salt Lake City, UT (2023). She holds a BFA in Visual Art with a minor in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University (2019). The artist currently resides in Berlin, Germany.


I explore the body as both site and subject—its autonomy, its submission, and its entanglement within structures of power and desire. Sourcing imagery from fragmented video sketches, photography, and literature, the scenes I capture confront the tension between pleasure and performance. My body becomes a ground where agency is negotiated and commodified, where longing is indistinguishable from necessity. inviting the viewer into a suspended tension between the self and external perception. Through intimate self-portraiture I play with scale, texture, and gaze, the work does not ask to be seen; it demands an encounter. implicating the viewer to confront our communal exchange between desire, consumption, and survival.