Focus
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, and work in his Pixelated Fabric series reflect on the role that social media played in the result of the 2016 US election.
Focus is a play on the traditional red and blue of the liberal and conservative, left and right ends of the political spectrum, and a meditation on the wisdom of pursuing progress through paths of moderation, which lives at the brightest area, around the middle.
Like the other square colorfield prints in the Pixelated Fabric series, this work is brightest toward the center and darkest toward the edges, expressing Jan’s opinion that social progress is best pursued through paths of moderation, toward the center of the political spectrum, and steering clear of the extremes of left, right, and radicalized political rhetoric.
chromogenic print under gallery ‘float’ plexiglass
125cm x 125cm x 4cm
executed in 2017
edition 3 of 3 🔴🔴