room for paintng 06 - Nan Grand-Jean: recent paintings

For the sixth exhibition in the room for painting we are pleased to be showing the recent work of San Francisco painter Nan Grand-Jean. Grand-Jean's painting is guided by the light. Something of a transcendentalist, she dissolves into a gestural color/light all the sense impressions of the world ... Read more

For the sixth exhibition in the room for painting we are pleased to be showing the recent work of San Francisco painter Nan Grand-Jean. Grand-Jean’s painting is guided by the light. Something of a transcendentalist, she dissolves into a gestural color/light all the sense impressions of the world around her, the world of her imagination and the movements of her own body. Her work is marked by a sensitivity of touch, a depth of surface and an apt sense of scale, but first and foremost by a handling of color that gives back a wonderful luminosity. Grand-Jean conceives in terms of divine light, our access to it and the obstructions that block us from it. Her work hovers on the threshold of what we see and what we sense, at once corporeal and still somehow beyond what we can grasp, an intimation of the metaphysical.