Artworks from Jana Wagner

For Jana Wagner, painting is a matter of seeing and conceptualizing, which she works on through drawing. The artist began her career as an autodidact in Dresden. Her work is not characterized by the mere reproduction of areas of colour, but rather by an essential unity between the colour field and its representation, as was sought in the past by the masters of Abstract Expressionism. Jana Wagner's compositions are works of a pictorial art that has freed itself from the obligation to depict and is now proving itself in new ways. Her role models certainly include the American painter Mark Rothko, whose mostly large-format paintings with horizontally layered areas of color already caused a stir in his day. Today, such meditative abstractions are synonymous with Abstract Expressionism.
In her current works, the colorfulness is accompanied by a certain solemnity. Sometimes the dichotomy of her works is reduced to form, creating harmoniously arranged conformities. Her striving to exploit the resulting color stimuli in a complementary way seems particularly appealing.