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Gertrude Studio Artist
Jan Nelson
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Walking in Tall Grass, (Bag), 2003
C Type photograph H 113.6cms x W 136.2cms. |
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Walking in Tall Grass( Blackwood ) 2004
Fibreglass, Forton VF-812 , oil paint, enamel, eyelashes ,Liquin and Liquitex Soluvar varnish. Part 1: ( main figure) H 113 x W 51 xD 86cms Part 2: ( rock) H 7 x W 8 x D10cms |
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Walking in Tall Grass ( Down) 2004
Fibreglass, oil paint Forton VF-812 , oil paint, enamel, eyelashes ,Liquin and Liquitex Soluvar varnish. |
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Walking in Tall Grass, Charlotte#1, 2002
oil on linen H85 x W 69 cms |
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Walking in Tall Grass (Storm) 2003
C Type photograph H 130cms x W 163.5cms. |
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Walking in Tall Grass, Amelia 2001
oil on linen, H 82 x W 66 cm |
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Over the last decade and a half Jan Nelson has moved freely between painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation. Using these different media she attempts to make palpable in her work the psychological Gap between the world that we physically experience and the psychological states through which it is apprehended.
Her recent paintings operate between two dramatically different modes: intimately detailed paintings of young people deeply absorbed in thought or intensely focused activities. These paintings are relatively small scale with the figures captured against brightly coloured grounds, removing them from any sense of social location or context.
In distinction to these intensely inwardly focused works are large scale enamel striped paintings whose kinetic energy evokes hard-edge abstraction as much the colours selected from this season's fashions.
Nelson talks about these dramatically different visual experiences and historical references being something that are not precisely equivalent but definitely analogues to one another - different expressions of similar experiences.
Trevor Smith
Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York “…Each one of Jan Nelson’s paintings from the series “Walking in Tall Grass” made around photographic images of youth provides a different window onto the world of growing up in the glare of our obsessive photographc reality. Her stunning technical virtuosity has captured on canvas eleven posed portraits of youngsters doing their thing in their own particular way. This work is concerned with opening up the possibilities that exist at the juncture between painting and photography: using both mediums as part of a broader conceptual examination of the resonance between the cult of the individual and anomymity in today’s media saturated world.”
David Cross, extract from “ THE PHOTOGRAPHIC GLARE: youth as a hyperreal experience”, In Jan Nelson: Walking in Tall Grass, Iconografias Metropolitanas, XXV Bienal deSão Paolo, Brasil, 2002
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