Jane Lackey: Openworks
Jane Lackey: Openworks
September 2 - 30, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 2, 4-6 pm
Artist in Conversation: Thursday, September 14, 5-6 pm
Jane Lackey with Curator Laura Addison
Periphery, 2018, acrylic paint, single layer cut kozo paper, 19 x 13 in.
In her current works, Jane Lackey uses meticulous process to orchestrate large-scale, cut paintings on paper that embed the matrix of woven grid into a network of fluid forces. By adding and subtracting adhesive labels, tape, paint, and sometimes thread to the surface of Japanese kozo paper, linear intersections parallel language, writing, cognition or measuring. Her works unite traits of fragility and strength that connect us as they expand incrementally into spatial topologies. Up close, the porous surfaces never quite settle down. Shadows pulse, eliciting a spatial atmosphere active in formation, like an accumulating or dissolving map of particles in motion. As one steps back and away, the composition comes into sharp focus revealing shapes that express force and interaction. The ambient rhythm of repetition contains difference, anomaly and sameness held within a plaid of connective tissue. Her drawing process of constant action and movement brings awareness to sensations that align with our emotional and physical selves.
Friction 2, 2018, 72 x 39 in., paint, labels, cut kozo paper
Jane Lackey earned her bachelor’s degree from the California College of the Arts in Oakland and her master’s from suburban Detroit’s Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she went on to head the fiber department for a time. Her artwork has been shown at the Loranger Architecture Center in Detroit, the Wellcome Trust in London, and the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York, among other venues. She received the 2011 Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship sponsored by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.
September 14, 5-6 pm
