TESS
GRUENBERG






Tess Gruenberg (b.1994, NYC) is a writer and creative strategist whose lyrical, philosophical approach to storytelling has appeared in Flaunt, Dazed, Beauty Papers, and OFFAL.

From 2018 to 2021, she served as assistant editor at Good Trouble, where she authored and edited over thirty features, conducting intimate interviews across culture, politics, and the arts. Her writing weaves together personal narrative with broader cultural critique, creating pieces that are both deeply researched and poetically rendered. She has since collaborated with artists including Paul Graves, Simons Finnerty, and Barry Yusufu on exhibition texts.

She lives on Patmos, where she runs éla! farm + kitchen—an experimental hospitality project focused on local agriculture, rare wine, and performance.
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Tess Gruenberg (b.1994, NYC) is a writer and creative strategist whose lyrical, philosophical approach to storytelling has appeared in Flaunt, Dazed, Beauty Papers, and OFFAL.

From 2018 to 2021, she served as assistant editor at Good Trouble, where she authored and edited over thirty features, conducting intimate interviews across culture, politics, and the arts. Her writing weaves together personal narrative with broader cultural critique, creating pieces that are both deeply researched and poetically rendered. She has since collaborated with artists including Paul Graves, Simons Finnerty, and Barry Yusufu on exhibition texts.

She lives on Patmos, where she runs éla! farm + kitchen—an experimental hospitality project focused on local agriculture, rare wine, and performance.


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“Wild Spring: A Conversation with Barry Yusufu”
Flaunt Magazine, September 2022

“As I spoke to Barry, I decided that I was right. He is a person of spring. He evolves on his own terms and stubbornly shrugs off the expectations thrown at him as an artist. “When you look at my works, you're going to see that there is an infinite process. There is never a place in time.” It’s the tragedy of a flower. The language of his art is vibrant and paradoxical, all bathed in wild color.

“I feel what makes a painting complete is the reference to the past, present, and the future,” he said and smiled, “and a little bit of a dream.”
© TESS GRUENBERG 2023