Jane Lackey: Openworks

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.