JANE PARK WELLS received her MFA in 1996 from Claremont Graduate University in California, as well as earning her BA in 1993 from Scripps College. She also attended Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is placed in many corporate collections.

It's especially hard to say anything about art that is as drastically reduced as JANE PARK WELLS. How is it that PARK WELLS lines and her lush palette, has produced a body of work that is so moving?

The introverted thinker in PARK WELLS is drawn to analytical systems, the parameters of the grid, the Fibonacci sequence, and the mathematical structure that produces rhythm and meter in music. Merging the classical abstract ideal of Platonic geometry with an empty, egoless Taoist meditation, PARK WELLS dematerializes her paintings into transparent fields of vision.

Her fifteen inch square paintings from the series “Rite of Spring” introduce a geometric vocabulary within a square format: a series of delicately etched lines painted between the upper and lower square prefigures the artist's career-long focus on variations of horizontal lines and fields. In addition, these gently insistent lines suggest an infinite space beyond the edge of the painting.

The square paintings, while infused with organic “vine” patterns that reverberate in tangents, still maintain a solidity and structural density. Oranges, pinks, blues, and rich blacks introduce energy that seems to emanate light rather than reflect it.

More than anything, JANE PARK WELLS works on paintings that narrow and focus the eye's attention. You have to stand close to them. You have to "read" every line. They demand intimacy and a kind of commitment. But what they give back in their simplicity and richness is indescribably moving.

In merging the methods of both minimalist and formalist traditions with an instinctual use of color and surface manipulation, her work represents a synthesis that asks the viewer to take their time and locate their mystical suggestiveness. However it would be a mistake to let anything overshadow what they are, first and foremost, gorgeous challenges to the eye.