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Michael Rosenthal Gallery

February 27 - April 7, 2010

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365 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Jolly Quagmire Jane Fine "Big Sky" 2009 acrylic and ink on wood
Opening February 27th, 6 - 9pm Michael Rosenthal is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Jane Fine. The paintings in this exhibition incorporate a mash-up of techniques—multi-colored pools of acrylic paint, passages of exuberant brushwork, jiggly drawn lines, and areas of high-key flat color. Fine once again allows a variety of improvisatory painting styles to bump against each other, while retaining their individual flavor. Fine’s new paintings unfold into wide-open spaces, full of verdant landscape and flowery psychedelia. But this celebration isn’t just for youngsters, it’s a mature party room complete with bandages and blubber, patches and scars. With this show Fine turns inward, from the political world toward the personal, while continuing to rely on her ability to present multiple and sometimes conflicting forces. Collapsed constructions, melted forms, and personal loss are redeemed by flowering blossoms and youthful invention in an overall spirit of renewal. “Ultimately, as much as my work has been concerned with events and politics outside my studio, each painting is full of metaphors for the battles inherent in my own creative process: trying to make something from nothing, intention from accident, illusion from flatness and meaning from doubt.” (Fine, 2009) Jane Fine received a BA from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME). She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has attended residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), Cité Internationale des Artes (Paris, France), and Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz, New York). Fine is represented by Pierogi in NY and Michael Rosenthal in San Francisco.