Always On
Works in Jan’s Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him in the contemporary world.
Always On is a reflection on the artist at work, comprised of spherical-looking forms, meant to represent the spherical forms of laboratory DNA models.
Figuratively, the composition is made up of three squares-within-squares (a dark blue square, a light blue square, and a new-leaf-green square), which are references to the work of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), and as such, represent the artist at work.
The sun, an important element for Jan, having been born in a summer month, as, in his words, 'the source of all energy and life' (see The Source), appears in the top-left corner, and the rays raining down over the square forms are a reference to the work of Mark Grotjahn (1968-).
chromogenic print under gallery ‘float’ plexiglass
122cm x 122cm x 4cm
executed in 2018
edition 2 of 3 🔴