Jane Cohen Dell was born in New York City and began her study of art at the high school of Music and Art, Art Students League, and continued at the School of Visual Art and received her BFA from Pratt Institute. Her current work on Mylar expresses the underlying structural dynamic of conflict and opposition within each of us. She works with inspiration, intuition, knowledge and magic. It is a journey inward and outward, and when she is through there is a painting. Jane lives and works in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Her work has been selected for many group and solo shows in New Jersey and New York, including Morris Council of the Arts Gallery, Pierro Gallery in South Orange, Iron Works Gallery in East Orange, NJ, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Montclair State University Gallery, George Segal Gallery, Virginia S. Block Gallery in Montclair, 1978 Gallery in Maplewood, Kling Gallery in Montclair, the Creative Center Gallery located at 147 West 26th St., NYC, PS 122, NYC, the White Space Gallery in New Haven, Ct and recently a solo show at Gallery at First, on 5th Ave. and 12th Street in New York. She has also sold works to private collectors and designers.
Statement
The concept of opposites came about as a result of my current paintings about animals and the human destruction of their habitats and the environment. Developers vs. preservationists, predators vs. prey, animal instincts and human behavior, one group or idea vs. another, they’re all opposites.
Opposing forces are everywhere. In nature, art, religion, science, commerce, morality even in the way we orient ourselves to the world. In fact they are nothing less than one of most basic tools we have to comprehend the world and process information that determines how we behave and live.
As a result of the powerful hold over our lives and its underlying structural dynamic of conflict opposites has limitless possibilities. To express this theme I use watercolor inks, photo-images/collage, graphite and fabric on Mylar.
