“I paint abstract images using very bright and bold colors. I use color and painting as healing tools to alleviate anxiety and stress. Painting helps me to quiet the mind and be in a more relaxed state. I layer coats of paint on top of each other and then manipulate the canvas by scraping it with various tools, creating different images. Painting has been a way of helping me deal with isolation and fear during covid-19 and has been very healing. “
– Jenny Golan

A note from Gallery CA gallery manager Quentin Gibeau

During the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mid 2020, many artists and other creatively focused people leaned into their work. This practice of creating and building a routine was grounding in the midst of so much uncertainty, with many discovering and experimenting with new ideas and processes. With the Gallery shut down, City Arts turned its focus onto resident programming in order foster connectivity and maintain our community bonds whilst social distancing. One of the most consistent and successful of these programs was Art Club. Meeting weekly on zoom, the Art Club artists and myself would discuss what we were working on, talk about what artists we were looking at, and share opportunities. During this time we saw Jenny’s work grow from an experiment to a near obsessive practice in which as an artist she found herself to be truly free. The results are a deluge of abstract forms and fields, variations on an artist’s weekly practice reminiscent of Anselm Kiefer, Lee Krasner, and Grace Hartigan, while channeling a creative and aesthetic voice that is truly original.

Please join us in celebrating the monument to that work, in Jenny’s debut solo exhibition at Gallery CA on view through November.