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Jane Booth:  Instinct

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art

January 25 - December 31, 2020

 
For immediate release
Thomas Piché, Jr.

Director, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art

State Fair Community College

(660) 530-5888

tompiche@daummuseum.org

     
‘Jane Booth: Instinct’ opens Jan. 25 at Daum Museum

Sedalia, Missouri – Jan. 14, 2020 – In her inaugural show at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the State Fair Community College campus in Sedalia, Jane Booth will exhibit a selection of recent, heroically scaled paintings starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25. The exhibition will remain on view until May 31, 2020. 

In her studio, surrounded on all sides by the gently rolling landscape of eastern Kansas, Booth filters cyclical impressions of the outside world through an interior process that intuitively translates the concrete and material into colorfully vibrant compositions whose poetry reimagines nature’s inspiration.

Citing the Persian mystic Rumi and Indian poet Kabir as harmonious forebears, Booth also incorporates aspects of the ecstatic and numinous in her work. The artist’s evocations of landscape, emotions, and mythologies are based in a compositional language of saturated color fields, zigzag calligraphy, and a feeling-filled application of paint and line. The works’ encompassing size contrasts with the often-intimate nature of Booth’s mark making, allowing for an almost voyeuristic visit with seemingly private notations.

A more recent muse is the twentieth-century modernist artist, curator, and mentor John Graham. His Surrealist-inflected artworks feature a disparate array of visual motifs, alternately graphic and painterly, allusive and abstract. In a similar way, Booth’s paintings combine varied formal strategies that result in passages that are referential and others that are opaque. Her pictures call loudly to us even as they convey an ineffable disposition, a combination that attracts and holds the viewer in a rewarding give and take.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, Booth will present a free artist lecture a in the Stauffacher Theatre on the Sedalia campus. The public and college community are invited to attend. The exhibit will close on Sunday, May 31. 

This exhibit is presented at the Daum with funding from Mr. James O. Cooney, season underwriter; Mrs. Katherine A. Menefee, season underwriter; Barbara Schrader, season underwriter; Randy and Marsha Eaton, exhibition sponsors; Steve and Karen Ellebracht, exhibition sponsor; Sylvia Y. Hopkins, exhibition sponsor; and James and Martha Meyer, exhibition sponsors. All programs are supported by State Fair Community College and the members of Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.

Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, call (660) 530-5888 or visit www.daummuseum.org. 

GLIMPSES: November 1st - November 30th, 2020 | Anderson O'Brien Fine Art

 

Vignette Toy Box - Gather 12x14

 

Life streams by in a cacophony of unimaginable complexity, constantly changing.   This new body of work offers experiential glimpses of a point in time, the past fading as the present manifests.

In this way, I’ve come to understand my work as journalistic, as visual expressions of what is felt and experienced.  I like to spend time with a finished piece, feeling my way through it, listening to what is being revealed.   Often there's imagery that reveals what was previously unconscious, that hadn’t yet floated up in to the mind to be identified as this or that.

Opening Reception:

First Friday, November 1st, 5-8pm

Anderson O’Brien Fine Art

3201 Farnam St. #6109

Omaha, NE 68131

SEEN AND UNSEEN: Blue Gallery – September 6 – 29, 2018

Jane Booth Paintings at Blue Gallery

JANE BOOTH in SEEN AND UNSEEN,
September 6 – September 29, 2018.

Jane Booth’s work emerges from her dedication to the landscape of her physical environment—rural Kansas—and the landscape of her interior life. Consequently her work has a diaristic and dreamlike effect, suggesting the rich interior life that we may access when we connect to that portion of our psyche. By painting in an abstract style that is still dependent on a certain naturalism, Booth mines the rich veins of formalism and conceptualism.

Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University and furthered her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings are in more than 300 private collections and numerous museum and corporate collections including the albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Blue Cros/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Farmers Mutual Insurance of NE, Lockwood Development, Millard Holding Corp., National Indemnity Company, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, and Kansas University Heart Hospital.

 

THOUGHT & FORM – KCAC – Open Spaces at the Artists Coalition

Jane Booth Paintings at KCAC

JANE BOOTH in THOUGHT & FORM
August 25 – October 27, 2018.

Jane Booth’s work emerges from her dedication to the landscape of her physical environment—rural Kansas—and the landscape of her interior life. Consequently her work has a diaristic and dreamlike effect, suggesting the rich interior life that we may access when we connect to that portion of our psyche. By painting in an abstract style that is still dependent on a certain naturalism, Booth mines the rich veins of formalism and conceptualism.

Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University and furthered her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings are in more than 300 private collections and numerous museum and corporate collections including the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Farmers Mutual Insurance of NE, Lockwood Development, Millard Holding Corp., National Indemnity Company, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, and Kansas University Heart Hospital.

 

NARRATIVES: Madison Gallery – August 4 – September 3, 2018

Jane Booth Paintings at Madison Gallery

JANE BOOTH in NARRATIVES
August 4 – September 3, 2018.

Jane Booth’s work emerges from her dedication to the landscape of her
physical environment—rural Kansas—and the landscape of her interior life. Consequently her work has a diaristic and dreamlike effect, suggesting the rich interior life that we may access when we connect to that portion of our psyche. By painting in an abstract style that is still dependent on a certain naturalism, Booth mines the rich veins of formalism and conceptualism.

Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University and furthered her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings are in more than 300 private collections and numerous museum and corporate collections including the albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Blue Cros/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Farmers Mutual Insurance of NE, Lockwood Development, Millard Holding Corp., National Indemnity Company, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, and Kansas University Heart Hospital.

 

WOMEN PAINTERS: Madison Gallery – April & May, 2017

Jane Booth Paintings at Madison Gallery

JANE BOOTH in WOMEN PAINTERS
April & May, 2017

Jane Booth’s work emerges from her dedication to the landscape of her
physical environment—rural Kansas—and the landscape of her interior life. Consequently her work has a diaristic and dreamlike effect, suggesting the rich interior life that we may access when we connect to that portion of our psyche. By painting in an abstract style that is still dependent on a certain naturalism, Booth mines the rich veins of formalism and conceptualism.

Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University and furthered her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings are in more than 300 private collections and numerous museum and corporate collections including the albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Blue Cros/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Farmers Mutual Insurance of NE, Lockwood Development, Millard Holding Corp., National Indemnity Company, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, and Kansas University Heart Hospital.

 

BLUE: A Group Exhibition – February, 2017

Jane Booth Paintings at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

JANE BOOTH in BLUE: A Group Exhibition
February, 2017

Jane Booth’s work emerges from her dedication to the landscape of her
physical environment—rural Kansas—and the landscape of her interior life. Consequently her work has a diaristic and dreamlike effect, suggesting the rich interior life that we may access when we connect to that portion of our psyche. By painting in an abstract style that is still dependent on a certain naturalism, Booth mines the rich veins of formalism and conceptualism.

Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University and furthered her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings are in more than 300 private collections and numerous museum and corporate collections including the albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Blue Cros/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Farmers Mutual Insurance of NE, Lockwood Development, Millard Holding Corp., National Indemnity Company, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, and Kansas University Heart Hospital.

 

SHEDDING LIGHT – JULY & AUGUST 2016

Jane Booth Paintings at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

JANE BOOTH: Shedding Light
July & August 2016
RECEPTION: July 8. 2016  6pm to 9pm

Jane Booth’s work emerges from her dedication to the landscape of her
physical environment—rural Kansas—and the landscape of her interior life. Consequently her work has a diaristic and dreamlike effect, suggesting the rich interior life that we may access when we connect to that portion of our psyche. By painting in an abstract style that is still dependent on a certain naturalism, Booth mines the rich veins of formalism and conceptualism.

Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University and furthered her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her paintings are in more than 300 private collections and numerous museum and corporate collections including the albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Polsinelli Shughart PC, Blue Cros/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Farmers Mutual Insurance of NE, Lockwood Development, Millard Holding Corp., National Indemnity Company, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, and Kansas University Heart Hospital.

 

ATMOSPHERE AND FORM – MAY & JUNE 2016

Jane Booth Paintings at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2004 Baltimore Avenue Contact: Sherry Leedy, sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com
Kansas City, MO 64108 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5 p.m. (816) 221-2626

JANE BOOTH: Atmosphere & Form
May – June, 2016

Jane Booth chooses to live and paint away from the city atop a ridge of land that overlooks a large open valley where storms can be seen forming miles away and stars are clearly visible at night. Looking outward nourishes and sustains Booth\’s inner spirit and, in turn, inspires and energizes her paintings.

Booth’s paintings begin as physical endeavor. Huge swaths of raw canvas are rolled out on the floor or outside on the ground and saturated with poured color until canvas and paint are bonded as one. The resulting paintings seem a part of nature, becoming atmosphere, environment and stage holding memories of land and light, insight and mystery, longing and finding. Sensitive, subtle and honest, Jane Booth\’s paintings reveal wide-open spaces of strength, openness and vulnerability. Ultimately, they disclose the artist\’s trust in the continuity and richness of life, within and without, and express a poetic vision of creativity, intellect and passion.

Her works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections, including: Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, Kansas University Heart Hospital, as well as featured in Kansas then Governor Sebelius’ offices and chambers. Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University, Manhattan.

 

Jane Booth Paintings at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Jane Booth Paintings at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2004 Baltimore Avenue Contact: Sherry Leedy, sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com
Kansas City, MO 64108 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5 p.m. (816) 221-2626

JANE BOOTH: Color and Light
September 6 – October 26, 2013
RECEPTION: September 21, 6-8 p.m.

Water and Light Series: Balance, acrylic on canvas 54”x 42”

Jane Booth chooses to live and paint away from the city atop a ridge of land that overlooks a large open valley where storms can be seen forming miles away and stars are clearly visible at night. Looking outward nourishes and sustains Booth\’s inner spirit and, in turn, inspires and energizes her paintings.

Booth\’s paintings begin as physical endeavor. Huge swaths of raw canvas are rolled out on the floor or outside on the ground and saturated with poured color until canvas and paint are bonded as one. The resulting paintings seem a part of nature, becoming atmosphere, environment and stage holding memories of land and light, insight and mystery, longing and finding. Sensitive, subtle and honest, Jane Booth\’s paintings reveal wide-open spaces of strength, openness and vulnerability. Ultimately, they disclose the artist\’s trust in the continuity and richness of life, within and without, and express a poetic vision of creativity, intellect and passion.

In 2012, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO, celebrated Booth\’s work with a solo exhibition, Jane Booth Paintings: Life Moving Through. Her works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections, including: Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Emprise Bank, Cisco Systems, H&R Block World Headquarters, Hilton Hotels, Kansas University Heart Hospital, as well as featured in Kansas then Governor Sebelius’ offices and chambers. Booth has a B.F.A. from Kansas State University, Manhattan.

 

2012 – Tanya Hartman – Albrecht-Kemper

Life Moving Through: Thoughts On The Paintings of Jane Booth

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay Nature, published anonymously in 1836

To spend time on Jane Booth’s land, is to spend time within the artist’s most private property: that of her spirit. Each blade of grass, fluttering bird or shaft of light seems to have a concomitant and poetic habitation within her heart and intellect, translating into metaphors that express how life passes through us, altering us physically and emotionally; forcing us to transform.

The fact that the cycle of life imposes both splendor and sorrow upon us is a theme that preoccupies the artist. In recent years, she has experienced loss and injury. Her reaction has been to turn inward by looking outward. Hence, the clots and drips of paint in her work can reference rain and tears simultaneously. A luminous passage of color might refer to sunlight and to insight. An area of heavy impasto could imply both sodden earth and saturating grief. In Jane Booth’s body of work, there is no boundary between what is within the self and what lies outside the self. In this way, her painting is inherently reverent, and filled with awe for universal processes that elude easy definition.

In Jane Booth’s studio, each mark, however deliberate, is imbued with transience. She begins a painting by staining a large swath of canvas with pigment. Her choice of hue is intuitive, as are the flurry of spontaneous marks that follow. Next, in the artist’s words, “…the fine parts:  sitting and studying for long stretches, tweaking and adjusting balance and movement, forming personality.   It’s like layering intellect over feeling, or form over atmosphere or color field.” The resulting paintings, created in thin layers of acrylic, create spacious environments in which elements from material reality peaceably coexist with fragments of emotion and recall. The works are sensitive, subtle and honest. Often, they are aesthetically pleasing but always they are beautiful and truthful. Courageously, the artist does not care what the final painting looks like, as long as it, “tells the truth.” In looking at the finished works, I am again reminded of Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote in his essay Nature, “The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.”

The survey of works that comprise this exhibition represent just a small percentage from the entirety of an enormous body of work. Jane Booth is an artist who is prolific. One may attribute her industry to the quest to speak an inner vision based in perception of emotion and passion for natural beauty. For ultimately, Jane Booth knows that there is no one truth to be told. Instead, what passes through us; the remembered fragment of conversation, the awareness of love, the originality of each horizon, leaf and breeze, inspires this artist to capture impermanence in pigment, and then to present the beauty of the imperfect image to the viewer as mutually shared treasure.

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