PAINT CUT PASTE
a visit with the #HIGHFREQUENCY works of
JANE CORNWELL
Artist
Northern California
Jane Cornwell's work is a glorious storm of energy that takes us on a journey to OZ and back.
-E.L
#WICKED
ABOUT
"My work is guided by exploration and intuition beneath concepts and ideas about what I am making. I am drawn to experimentation and discovery through the physicality of creating via painting mark making erasing tearing things apart cobbling things together re-discovering into another conversation. When I am in exploration improvisation and play beneath any story lines about what I am doing or where I am going the more moments of synchronicity and epiphanies seem to arise in my work. I view my art as a practice meaning I show up on a regular basis mostly daily and in the process of engagement with a variety of different media I make discoveries along the way." Jane's collages are more a combo of wandering lines, geometrics and painted textures made from cut shapes and shards of new & old discarded paintings that are given a new lease of life. Cutting and ripping old works apart gives Cornwall a greater range of marks to juxtapose against one another including the clean precision of scissor lines the straight edges of paper sheets painterly streaks and the jagged surface of torn marks. When layered on top of one another into complex arrangements these fragments become low-relief sculptural forms projecting outwards from the flat page with a rich and appealing tactility much like Ben Nicholson’s constructions of the 1950s. Cornwell divides her working methods into several distinct areas each of which creates a framework within which to experiment and play. Uneven patches of paint in an array of naturalistic colors are scumbled over the surface - Jagged graphite lines as crisp and angular as wire form angry tangles in amongst the paint bending swirling and twisting to add greater textural intensity and dynamism to the works.
“I find my way in the doing.”
-JC
( - This writing is a modified except courtesy of the189.com and Jane's website )
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Her collages are like a trip to STUDIO 54 & THE TATE MODERN all in one night.
-E.L.
