Gates, 2008
oil on panel
55 x 43 inches
Indigo for Sylvester, 2011
oil on panel
16 x 20 inches
3rd Order Magic Square for Harmony, 2013
oil, marker, and pencil on panel
47 x 43 inches
Like the other painting show at the Santa Monica Museum of Art right now ( Keltie Ferris ), it's really hard not to dismiss this work as mere decoration with great technical facility (in which case on all accounts, I am held at bay by either form or concept rather than passages of expression, elements within the composition that recall a human record and therefore time). On the other hand, I also enjoyed making connections to aboriginal applications from, say, Australia, or Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie of 1943. Then video games and lite-brites...
Unlike threads of color discussed elsewhere in this blog, Jane seems to be more fixed on the point, literally toward more remote perceptions regarding particles more than waves. Infinitely divisible, I liked how she reinstated Indigo for the electromagnetic spectrum. I could ramble on with free-associations, but suffice it to say that something else did hold my attention here in a good way. Maybe it was the illusion of light.
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