Jean Arnold’s ability to stare at the constantly moving world as if unblinking permeates her work. Her canvases breathe with motion. Her colors, like windows without casings, form without structure, mirror the fleeting visuals of our hurried lives.

On a deeper level, Arnold talks about hurtling through space as “a palpable presence of the energy and power underlying our civilization,” and how she takes that energy and embeds it in her paintings to “convey immediacy and a sense of transience.” She is concerned with our society’s dependence on fossil fuel and uses her work as a way to speak about our tendency toward disjointed complexity. Read the rest (PDF)...

Jean Arnold’s ability to stare at the constantly moving world as if unblinking permeates her work. Her canvases breathe with motion. Her colors, like windows without casings, form without structure, mirror the fleeting visuals of our hurried lives.

On a deeper level, Arnold talks about hurtling through space as “a palpable presence of the energy and power underlying our civilization,” and how she takes that energy and embeds it in her paintings to “convey immediacy and a sense of transience.” She is concerned with our society’s dependence on fossil fuel and uses her work as a way to speak about our tendency toward disjointed complexity. Read the rest (PDF)...