Jade Jaroszenski

Jade Jaroszenski, featured in both the “Poetics of Space” and “Land and Longing” exhibitions is an emerging oil painter based in Reading, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Kutztown University in 2018 with a BFA concentration in painting. Her landscape paintings explore light, memory, and familiarity with a bold use of color. Since graduating, she has participated in exhibitions including the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show in Philadelphia and multiple national juried art shows at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her work was also included in the exhibition Chroma at Paradigms Gallery in Philadelphia.


Artist Statement

The focus of my paintings is exploring my everyday surroundings, through constructing them into abstract forms. I use expressive color and mark-making to depict my daily experiences, reflecting on memory and my interactions with nature and places. Currently, my paintings rely on both observation and imagination, sometimes referring back to photographs I’ve taken and other times working from plein air. These are places that I am familiar with, but the paintings themselves are an assembly of elements that merge feeling and memory with observation. Beginning a painting with a colored underpainting instead of a white background is part of my process, allowing me to leave areas open. Utilizing negative space is part of the process of composing these landscapes and bringing attention to the surface.


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