JEAN ALEXANDER FRATER
Pink Mound, 2022
acrylic and latex on torn canvas then woven 47 x 40 in 119.4 x 101.6 cm |
Jean Alexander Frater subverts and destroys the painterly gesture with torn-up, reassembled and scaled down reinterpretations of her color-blocked canvases. She carefully reassembles new images and forms that deliberately shift as you move around the intricate Paintings. The raw canvas becomes part of the surface, and the layering dually hides and reveals the entirety of the painting. Alexander Frater thinks of abstraction, as an in-between state, where there is both something very knowable and unknowable in the image. Jean limits her materials to Paint, Canvas and Rectangular stretcher and calls her work “Paintings,” but she pushes the boundaries of this language by mixing in techniques associated with fiber arts, ceramics, and sculptural techniques. Jean is represented by Engage Projects in Chicago and runs the artist run space Material Exhibitions.
She was a 2017-2018 Chicago Artists BOLT resident, received an MFA from School of Art the Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Philosophy, from the University of Dayton, Ohio. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Wexner Center for Arts, Columbus; El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe; Images Festival, Toronto; Possible Project Space, Brooklyn; Ben-Gurion airport, Tel Aviv; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, THE MISSION Gallery, Chicago; Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn and Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute, Baltimore. |
