Rise
Jan’s Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him in the contemporary world, and works in his Totems series present icons, objects, and scenes as metaphors for reflection on current events and themes relevant to contemporary living.
Rise is a tonal meditation on the feeling of ‘rising above’ and ‘rising to a challenge,’ inspired, like a few others of his works, by the work of mid-twentieth-century American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman, whose vertical lines, or ‘zips,’ are meant to represent eternal truths in broad, large-scale compositions.
“For me, these two colors represent the lush vibrancy of new leaves and the open optimism of blue skies. For me, Rise is an invitation, and an encouragement, to dream big dreams, and to do good, big things.”
dye-infused microsuede
244cm x 249cm x 5cm
executed in 2017
edition 2 of 3 🔴