Giovanni’s Room is pleased to announce Greg Jenkins’s first exhibition with the gallery, presenting an installation of his films, Motor Motor Blue, 2025, 82, 83, 2025, Raider, 2025.   

Greg Jenkins is an American artist and filmmaker. His recent work is a journey through a phantom America, and a search for the myths and spectacles that remain. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Motor Motor Blue, 2025

Single-channel video (color, sound)

14:40 minutes

This is the film's first time installed in a gallery context. It has screened at New Orleans Film Festival, Iowa City Int'l Doc Fest, Chicago Underground Film Fest, REDCAT, & more. 

In Antigravity Mag: "Motor Motor Blue abruptly opens to a silent, eerie scene of an underground mine narrative ride. The camera points ahead as the railcar moves along through the ride. The audience is taken through a journey of clips of various things that creator Greg Jenkins dedicated to his late Uncle Gordie, like late nights at the dirt oval race track with only the roar of engines echoing through the cold night air, and the early morning serenity of thick fog creeping through the Appalachian mountainside as coal trucks weave through the mountain roads hauling their cargo. Jenkins’ use of prolonged silent shots brings a solemn awareness that life continues after death, but not without the raw emptiness left behind. Motor Motor Blue shows what’s left of a person that’s no longer there, whose absence leaves us in reverent silence with the places and experiences reminiscent of Gordie."

In Cine-file Mag: "Greg Jenkins’ MOTOR MOTOR BLUE (2023, 15 min) is similarly complex in its mix of onscreen text and location shots, this time in the Appalachian Mountains. The work begins in an underground cave and ends in a natural history museum; between these bookends are reflections on the death of Jenkins’ uncle, a sequence about auto racing, and some particularly beautiful shots of clouds."

82,83, 2025

Single-channel video (color, sound)

1:40 minutes

Raider, 2025

Single-channel video (color, sound)

2:52 minutes