Jess Fuller

Jess Fuller (b. 1972, Portland, ME) arranges dyed and sewn canvas shapes that pass under fields of color, creating movement through line, volume and draping.

The artist begins her process on the floor, working on multiple pieces at once, moving shapes around, letting time pass in a release for the imagination. Evocative of Matisse’s cutouts, Arp’s assemblages and Miro’s tapestries, these works unite color and texture to explore the limits of paint on canvas. Surfaces are washed, cut, glued, sewn, sprayed, and painted in a cyclical process that creates tension through the pairing of line and contour.

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