Jennifer Rosenfeld

Show ran from 11/1/2001 to 11/24/2001

"Housing," oil paintings

How does one make a home in an unfamiliar environment? Can a home be defined simply as shelter, or are there ephemeral components as well? These are the questions explored in Housing, a series of oil paintings on canvas and wood panel by urban landscape painter Jennifer Rosenfeld. In her latest works to date, Rosenfeld creates her own habitat within sweeps of intensely saturated color, which she interrupts with plays of line, shapes concentrated fields of even deeper pigment. Essential architectural and interior forms are influenced and contrasted with an environmental response to regional light changes, while alien space becomes personalized in these lush and invocative paintings.