Artist Bio (2024)
Jane Forrest (2005) is an artist and curator based in New York City and Toronto. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Art & Science. Her labour-intensive practices utilizes oil painting to preserve and illuminate the connections to the life around her. She has exhibited her work at the Orillia Museum of Art & History, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Northern Contemporary Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum. She had her first solo exhibition What Might Have Been Lost at Remote Gallery September 2022.
My work functions as a love letter to the life around me. Using subject matter sourced from communities and family history: studio buildings, handwritten letters and shadows, time is used as a medium to connect to the world. Through perspective, movement and light, my work reconstructs the world through my eyes. Utilizing oil painting as a form of preservation: my work can give me proof that I’m here and that I’ll leave something behind. The fragility of falling buildings, disappearing shadows, and fading handwriting is overcome.
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