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Jane Fine's most recent paintings take their inspiration from images of war, with central forms that resemble tanks and forts. "These scenes of violence provide me with a less benign way to address the forces of entropy, as decay and destruction cause images to melt away. Ultimately the melting castles and burning tanks are a metaphor for the battles of the creative process and all its inherent pleasures and contradictions: trying to make something from nothing, intention from accident, illusion from flatness." (Fine, 2004)
“At one moment I am mimicking an anxious Pollock; in the next I feel as if I’m carefully knitting a sweater. These oscillations are between doubt and faith in the possibility of invention, where faith wins out.”
Fine, represented by Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, has exhibited in major museums and art centers. Most recently she participated in The Brooklyn Museum's exhibition "Open House: Working In Brooklyn". Her work is reprinted in 'OPEN', the catalogue detailing that exhibition. Jane Fine has exhibited widely in the past twelve years. She attended Harvard University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has received numerous awards including the Cite Internationale des Artes Residency in Paris, France; several Yaddo residencies; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.