Jane Carney
Whenever I initiate a drawing, collage or painting a dialogue begins. It becomes a conversation, a back and forth of visual bantering. I play with materials and surfaces and in the process new directions and images emerge.
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Biography
Jane Carney is a Chicago-based artist whose practice relies on an ongoing dialogue with figurative abstraction employing gestural mark making with formal elements of design in both drawing and painting. She received her BFA in painting from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana and her Master of Interdisciplinary Art from LoyolaUniversity, Chicago, Illinois. Jane is a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists and currently serves on the exhibitions committee of the Evanston Art Center. Jane has attended residencies at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York and Vermont Studio Center. She received a Quick Start Grant from the IllinoisArts Council. Other workshops include Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado and OX Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan.Her work has been shown in a variety of venues and galleries including The Prudential Building, Chicago and Vedder-Price International Law Firm. Her work is in private collections nationally.
Artist Statement
Whenever I initiate a drawing, collage or painting a dialogue begins. It becomes a conversation, a back and forth ofvisual bantering. I play with materials and surfaces and in the process new directions and images emerge. This allows me to work with disparate ideas that evolve from personal experiences and the world around me. Through improvisation and experimentation, I grab both conceptually and physically from my surroundings. Within the chaos, I search for a hidden order using figurative abstraction, gestural mark making and formal elements of design. In my studio practice, I attack, pull back, destroy and rework surfaces. It is a dance where the choreography is constantly changing until the piece tells me to stop. I am rewarded with the joy of discovery.