JANE FINE
Hoop-la, 2002. Color lithograph on Somerset Velvet soft white. Paper Size: 30 x 22 in. Edition of 40.
Orange Flip, 2001. Color lithograph on Somerset Velvet soft white. Paper Size: 30 x 22 in. Edition of 40.
Jane Fine’s “Hoop-la” and “Orange Flip” feature spontaneous pours of pure color paired with elegant, looping geometry. In “Hoop-la”, the artist responds to the initial poured colors in magenta and blue by creating a network of hoops and chains to encircle, bind, and adorn the central mass. In and out of the structure, the visual perspective is in constant motion, with rings and hopscotch-like tiles connecting the levels and depths of space.
In “Orange Flip” the colors intensify to melted sherbet pours and bright magenta beads. The kid at the carnival is rewarded by looking longer at the changing perspective, while one can imagine entering the space and climbing up and down the geometric forms.
B. NEW YORK, NY
Jane Fine received her BA from Harvard University and her MA from the School of the Museum of Fine Art/Tufts University. Fine combines a lush painterly bravado with delicate descriptive line in her personal, tragicomic works.
Her solo exhibitions include Rio II Gallery, New York, NY; Pierogi, New York, NY; Englewood Art Center, FL; Clifford Gallery Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA; AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy; Barbara David Gallery, Houston, TX; Casey Kaplan, New York, NY; and White Columns, New York, NY and many more.
Fine has been awarded numerous residencies and awards including Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA; The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA; Central City Artist Project, Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, Louisiana; New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Hermitage Artists Retreat, Manasota Key, FL; Cité International des Artes Residency, Paris, France; Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY and the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship.
Her work is in the many public and private collections including The Neuberger Museum of Art, The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University Museums, The West Collection, Progressive Corporation, The Graham Gund Collection, the Hyde Collection, the University Museum of Contemporary Art UMass, Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chaney Family Collection, the Aspen Contemporary Art Collection, Fidelity Investments, Sax Fifth Avenue Collection, and National Grid.