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Allison Jané
Cecilia Jané-Brown
Blades of Grass
acrylic and tempera on canvas
40″ x 40″
2024
This work was created collaboratively by mother and daughter. Using paint, paint sticks, and paint markers, we worked intuitively, engaging in ongoing conversations about the choices we made as we layered the materials. The process alternated between experimental mark-making and more intentional strategies to bring the piece together. With a new baby in the home, this project provided a meaningful opportunity to spend time together and create a visual record of our bonding moments. The title of the piece was decided by three-year-old Cecilia, as she poetically explained “because the blades of grass look like these and lions can roar.”
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Allison Jané
Glimmer of Sincerity
oil on canvas
6″ x 6″
2019
My drawings and paintings pull inspiration from music, places, and books. The process shifts between intuitive, unconscious responses to stimuli and a systematic method of refining, reproducing, and sometimes extracting. “Glimmer of Sincerity” is one of two reproduced fragments from a larger marker drawing. The original drawing was an automatic response to Billie Eilish’s song “When the Party’s Over.” The title of this work is taken from a Rolling Stone review of the album, reflecting the technique of drawing content from a larger composition.
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