KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
Summer Jellison:
DIPTYCHS, NEW
FIGURATIVE WORKS
ARTIST STATEMENT
—Summer Jellison
Summer Jellison received a BFA in Printmaking from the Hartford
Art School, University of Hartford, where she won the Alexander A.
Goldfarb Purchase Prize and graduated Summa Cum Laude. A 2000 MA graduate
of the University of the Art's Book and Printmaking program, Jellison
debuts her explorations of the figure as exercises in portraiture, paint
and composition.
My work has always been grounded in observational and figurative methods:
these paintings began from sketches and photographs of my models. In terms
of media and composition, this series of arcylic diptychs focuses on color
and expression, working with varying degrees of comfort and intimacy, from
fully clothed figures to the bold nude. No figure is entire: like a
poorly-taken photograph, they have simply slipped out of the frame. The
ostensibly empty canvas could be thought of as the figure's original
location or destination. How have they crossed the gap between paintings?
How might they cross the gap?