Booth A3
DC Moore is pleased to present a solo-presentation of the American artist Jane Wilson (1924- 2015) which will highlight rare, large-scale paintings from the 1980s and 1990s that have not been exhibited for 30 years. These luminous paintings hover between abstraction and representation and are the distinctive works for which she is best known.
Jane Wilson was a presence in the New York art world from her arrival in the city in 1952 to her death in 2015. At a time when few women artists were able to break through the rough and tumble years of abstract expressionism, Wilson was a steady, independent presence. A founding member of the legendary Hansa Gallery in the 50s, she exhibited in New York City galleries for many years.
Beginning in 1960, Wilson painted in Watermill, NY on the East End of Long Island, which inspired a long trajectory of work and where she participated in an artistic world alongside fellow artists Willem de Kooning, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers and the poets John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Frank O'Hara. The Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by Wilson in 1960.
In the early 1980s, Wilson made a decisive move to more personal and expressive painting and began creating the distinctive works for which she is best known today. Wilson's luminous paintings hover between abstraction and representation, and were inspired by sky, sea, and land. She focused on events of the natural world—seasons of the year, times of day, and the many moods of the weather. Evoking these constant occurrences, Wilson directed her energies towards making the most passing phenomena visible, capturing the effects of shimmering light, heavy air, and passing thunderstorms. In many of her paintings, the sky, which can just as easily be taken as an abstract field of pattern and color, is anchored by the barest rudiments of recession and a low horizon that is a juncture of light and substance.
Jane Wilson's paintings are in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville AR; Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, as well as other museums across the country.

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