‘Solid Turn Liquid’ by Jane Lee
Best known for her practice premised on materials and innovation, artist Jane Lee examines the way paintings are constructed by reinventing its very characteristic and form. In Solid Turn Liquid, she deconstructs paint to a sculptural end with two unconventionally draped canvases of enmeshed paint that allude, via their connecting puddle, that the colour of one has travelled across the floor to arrive at another. It is this process of transfiguration that she wishes to highlight via her dissolution of painting into form, material and concept.
Jane alters our archetypal perception of the lone and formal painting to be hung framed on a wall, as her work is a painting that gains its meaning from the space it occupies (the puddle on the floor and both walls, viewed collectively) and the production process, not to mention the concept behind it.
Aptly featured in the exhibition ‘Dear Painter’ at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, she challenges the subject of paint with relation to history and production, and most importantly as a medium. Including works that reference, appropriate or challenge painting and more broadly, art forms, “Dear Painter” is a show that breaks down formal constructs and poses conceptual provocation. Nicolette Sim
See Jane Lee’s work at ‘Dear Painter’ at Sundaram Tagore Gallery (5 Lock Road, #01-05 Gillman Barracks, S108933). Till Oct 25. Tue-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun 11am-6pm.
