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Jeni Spota blends traditional religious painting with a built up, almost sculptural surface.!
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Works on Paper
Press Release
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present Works on Paper, a project space exhibition with California-based artist Jeni Spota C. This is her first presentation with the gallery.
Recognized for her distinct subject matter and approach to impasto oil painting, Spota’s practice manifests at the intersection of painting and dreaming: a space of image recall, reinterpretation, and reinvention.
For Works on Paper, the artist’s approach becomes even more tactile. Small strips of ripped, twisted, and bunched painted papers coalesce with cut foam core and wafts of cotton, rendering scenes with a vibrational materiality.
This body of work returns to and expands upon Spota’s enduring fascination with early Renaissance painting, specifically Giotto’s depiction of the Last Judgement at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. For Spota, the Last Judgement and its manifold visual interpretations (including Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1971 version in Il Decameron) serv