Jennifer Nelson | On Circles

On Circles is rooted in a single form: the circle. Abstracted across each piece, it becomes a vehicle for exploring contrast and tension. Where wool meets bare linen, positive gives way to negative. Where layers build, texture becomes its own kind of mark-making, structure, shadow, and surface all at once.

The hand rug punching technique is slow and methodical by nature, grounded in a long lineage of American folk artists. Yet On Circles‘ visual language is unmistakably modern. The repetition of the process mirrors the repetition of the form. Together they ask how much can be said with very little.

What reads as spare on the wall was built slowly, by hand, through repetition. The studies that make up this collection represent a sustained inquiry into one form and what it can hold.

INSIGHT Art Talk: TBD

Opening Reception: January 15, 5-7 pm

Final Friday: January 29 and February 26, 6-9 pm