JANE SANGERMAN

Recent Paintings

Jane Sangerman’s newest paintings explore the subconscious using found objects as a catalyst to reveal a hidden energy. Sangerman’s artistic process involves layering, scraping, sanding and corrosion, allowing the color and material to peak through. This process, a type of excavation, reveals fossilized images as Sangerman removes layers to expose an empty, mysterious space where life once existed.

In the “Palette Series” Sangerman incorporates used palettes from anonymous artists into her own cool color palette of aquas, greens and turquoises. The artistic energy from the previous life of the palettes helps inform Sangerman’s creativity. Sangerman’s newest “Element Series” underscores her conception of excavation using earthy tones, including ochre and rust, to reveal the latent beauty in the metal. Sangerman finds inspiration from construction sites and blueprints, often incorporating found objects such as mesh, rusted metal, paper shavings, roofing shingles and fiberglass sheets as a way to rediscover and recreate an object’s history. Sangerman’s physical involvement in the process is important to her artistic creation. Following her subconscious as she works, each painting leads to the creation of the next in a constantly expanding series of work with endless possibilities.

Jane Sangerman lives and works in New York City and East Hampton.  Sangerman studied Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico and The State University of New York at Buffalo. Sangerman has exhibited her works throughout the USA, including solo exhibitions at Althea Viafora Gallery in New York, and Group exhibitions at Jan Cicero Gallery in Chicago and Boltax Gallery in Shelter Island.