Blue Square

Works in Jan’s Totems series present icons, objects, and scenes as metaphors for reflection on current events and themes relevant to contemporary living, and his Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him in the contemporary world.

Blue Square is a reference and homage to Kasimir Malevich’s seminal 1915 painting Black Square, whereby he and other members of the Russian revolutionary ‘vanguard’ proclaimed a new era of art and a new ‘year zero,’ distinguishing their era from what had come before, and moving forward with new social and aesthetic purpose.