Jenny Saville’s monumental paintings wallow in the glory of expansiveness. Jenny Saville is a real painter’s painter. She constructs painting with the weighty heft of sculpture. Her exaggerated nudes point up, with an agonizing frankness, the disparity between the way women are perceived and the way that they feel about their bodies. One of the most striking aspects of Jenny Saville’s work is the sheer physicality of it. Jenny Saville paints skin with all the subtlety of a Swedish massage; violent, painful, bruising, bone crunching.

Fulcrum
Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville, Fulcrum, 1999
Oil on canvas (triptych)
261.6 x 487.7 cm 103 x 193''

Trace
Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville, Trace, 1993-94
Oil on canvas (triptych)
213.5 x 165 cm 84 x 65''

Host
Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville, Host, 2000
Oil on canvas
304.8 x 457.2 cm 120 x 180''

Shift
Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville, Shift, 1996-97
Oil on canvas
330.2 x 330.2 cm 130 x 130''