Jane Dell

Jane R. Dell’s current series of mixed media paintings on Mylar attempts to address human behavior and the various external forces that influence it. Her work addresses, among other things, the expressive and metaphorical potential of scale, along with the poetics of space. To quote the artist, “This genre exposes my personal attitude towards the world around us and is a launching point for this ongoing theme of work. The materials I use are acrylic paint, various mediums, watercolor ink, graphite, selected photo images, glitter, fabric, and handmade stencils and textured mono printing plates.” Jane’s emphasis on color, surface, texture and shape can result in unexpected visual surprises, in which the viewer is confronted with the juxtaposition of wildly different image types.

 By Zachary Ritter

 

 

Artist Statement

Opposites

The concept of opposites came about as a result of my current paintings about animals and the human destruction of their habitats and the environment. Developers vs. preservationists, predators vs. prey, animal instincts and human behavior, one group or idea vs. another, they’re all opposites.

Opposites are everywhere. In nature, art, religion, science, commerce, morality even in the way we orient ourselves to the world. In fact they are nothing less than one of most basic tools we have to comprehend the world and process information that determines how we behave and live.

To acknowledge opposites causes us to think. For example, comparing morality in terms of good and bad, requires defining what both concepts mean. And much of our interaction as people is determined by our concepts of male and female. As a result of the powerful hold over our behavior and activities and its underlying structural dynamic of conflict opposites has limitless possibilities. 

 

 

“Synthesis” New Brunswick Art Salon 2012 Part II 

 

“Infinite Layers” New Brunswick Art Salon 2013 Part II Water Color Exhibition

 

Education

• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York-, B.F.A.- Painting/Printmaking Major
• Parsons School of Design, New York City-, textile design and fabric arts
• School of Visual Arts, New York City-, graphic design, illustration and printmaking

 

• 2010 Gallery at First, First Presbyterian Church, 5th Ave. and 12 Streets, NYC
• 2007 Creative Center Gallery, Chelsea, 147 W. 26^th St., NYC-Performances Series
• 2006 Bergdorf Cultural Center, Maplewood, NJ-Jazz with Abstraction
• 2005 Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ-Performances Series– acrylic/mixed media paintings
• 1996 P.S. 122 Gallery, New York City, New York-Fossil Forms
• 1980 Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY-Paintings and prints

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011	Virginia Block Gallery,  “Rendering Green” 33 Plymouth Rd., Montclair, NJ
	NJ Art Incubator Gallery, UNEMERGED curator/artist, 495 Prospect Ave., West Orange, NJ
	12th Annual Gaelen Gallery Juried Art Show, Whippany, NJ
	Iron Works Gallery, 406 Tompkins Street, Orange, NJ-“Missing Pieces”
	M.T. Gallery, Surf City, NJ-Summer Show
2010	Studio Montclair Block Gallery “Animal” Show, Montclair, N.J.
	Arts Council of the Morris Area, Morristown, NJ-“Whimsy”, Mary Kate O’Hare, curator of the Newark Museum.
	1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ-Group Show
2009	Pierro Gallery-Essex Exposed -South Orange, NJ  (juror-Patterson Sims)
	City Without Walls Gallery Benefit –juried show, Newark, NJ
	Gallery 225, NYC, NY
	Pro Arts, Jersey City Drawing Exhibition
	Creative Center Artists Website
2008	Mona Lisa Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
	Fairmount Art Crawl, Seek Sanctuary, Philadelphia, Pa.
	Matt Burton Gallery, Long Beach Island, NJ
2007	White Space Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
	1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
2006	City Without Walls Gallery Small Works Metro Juried Show, Newark, NJ
	First Presbyterian Church Gallery, 5th Ave. NYC
2005	Summer Invitational Salon Show, Griffen Gallery, Madison, NJ
	Artist Tour Exhibit-Baird Art Center, South Orange, NJ
	Anguish and Angst- juried show at the 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
	The Art Gallery at Classic Framing, Salon Benefit Show, Maplewood, NJ
	Project Diversity, Pratt Institute and Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004	Art Market 2004,Montclair State University Gallery, National Juried Art Show
	1978 Gallery, 1978 Springfield Ave..Maplewood, NJ
	Maplewood/South Orange Artist Studio Tour
	Studio Montclair Juried Show @ Montclair Public Library, Montclair,  NJ
2003	Kling Gallery, Studio Montclair Group Exhibition, Walnut Street, Montclair, NJ
	1978 Gallery-Strategies of Expression, Juried Art Show, Maplewood, NJ
	Gallery 31 North, Invitational Juried Show, Glengarden, NJ
	Clifton Fine Art Gallery, Invitational Juried Show, Clifton, NJ
	1978 Gallery, Group Show, Maplewood NJ-Press Coverage, Star Ledger,NJ
2001	20th National Traveling Small Works Show- City Without Walls Gallery
	National 2001 Juried Show-Cooperstown Art Assoc., Cooperstown, N.Y.
	Visions/Revisions Exhibition – City Without Walls Gallery,Newark, N.J.
1999	City Without Walls Gallery Juried Member’s Show, Newark, N.J.
	RC Arts Gallery, Maplewood, N.J.-Collage Constructions
1998	The Independents’ Biennial #4 Charas/El Bohio, curators, Curtis and Amando Perez, New York,N.Y.
1997	CWE Exhibit. Interart Theater Annex, 560 West 54th St., NYC
1996	The Curtis and Armando Perez, New York, N.Y. Independents Biennial #3 Charas/ El Bohio, curator
1994	Art Initiatives, 148 Duane St. N.Y.C.
1990	Show of Hands Gallery, Incorporated  Gallery and Wheeler/Seidel Gallery- SoHo, New York

  

Awards and Grants

• 2011   JCC Gaelen Annual Juried Show-Honorable Mention for painting
• 2004   Byrdcliff Arts Colony, Woodstock Guild, awarded summer artist-in-residence
• 1998   New Jersey Center for Visual Arts-Honorable Mention
• 1996   Honorable Mention-South Orange Gallery (Pierro Gallery), N.J.
• 1990   First Prize-McGraw-Hill Annual Art Show,N.Y.C.
• 1971   Dean’s List-Pratt Institute