Jane Grocott (b. 2000) lives and works between Vancouver and New York where she is currently pursuing her MFA at Hunter College. She graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2023 and has exhibited in several group exhibitions in Canada.
Guided by the materiality of composing an image with paint, Grocott approaches her work as a means to decode influxes of visual information absorbed in her daily life. The basis for many of her paintings are photos that she captures in public spaces in transitory moments on her way from one place to another. Fleeting observations of architectural details, graffiti, construction site or sidewalk detritus become the lines, curvatures, shadows, depths or all-over patterns that appear on her surfaces. In the process of painting though, through tactile methods of constructing images and decisions informed by her own emotional condition in the studio, her works emerge as personal statements. In this way, Grocott’s paintings are collisions between direct experience and internal dialogue. Structured by aspects of her surroundings and embedded with introspection, these works are ruminations on her lived environment and her place within it.
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Guided by the materiality of composing an image with paint, Grocott approaches her work as a means to decode influxes of visual information absorbed in her daily life. The basis for many of her paintings are photos that she captures in public spaces in transitory moments on her way from one place to another. Fleeting observations of architectural details, graffiti, construction site or sidewalk detritus become the lines, curvatures, shadows, depths or all-over patterns that appear on her surfaces. In the process of painting though, through tactile methods of constructing images and decisions informed by her own emotional condition in the studio, her works emerge as personal statements. In this way, Grocott’s paintings are collisions between direct experience and internal dialogue. Structured by aspects of her surroundings and embedded with introspection, these works are ruminations on her lived environment and her place within it.
