Continuing the Art of Play
November 6, 2024

Artist: Tess Jaray


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Over the course of her distinguished career, Tess Jaray has developed a practice that despite sharing affiliations with minimalism, architectural drawing, Op Art and other movements, resists any singular classification. 

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Tess Jaray has created a stunning body of work over 6 decades.

The following are ideas and comments taken from interviews and Jaray commenting on her work.

  • Each painting somewhat comes out of the last painting

  • Colors in her paintings somewhat represent perhaps a time of day or an emotional feeling

  • Adds up to infer that there is something beyond the surface

  • Flattens the surface but also show dimension

  • Suggests that there is more than meets the eye

  • Geometric purity

  • Involves the viewer

  • Complicated process to get something simple

As we have learned in our past creative explorations, often simple paintings are more complex to create.

Let's give it a try!




In the end, acrylic on wooden panel, 15 x 15 x 2,5 cm

In the end, acrylic on wooden panel, 15 x 15 x 2,5 cm

°°‾‾°°, Installation view, EXILE, 2023

Company I, Darker Green, 2021, acrylic on canvas

Company I, Lighter Green, 2021, acrylic on canvas

Untitled, 2021, acrylic on wooden panel, 50 x 50 x 2 cm each

Untitled, 2020, acrylic on wooden panel, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm each

Reflection 2, 2020, acrylic on panel 60 cm in diameter each

Return to Vienna, The Paintings of Tess Jaray, Installation view, Secession, Vienna, 2021, photo by Oliver Ottenschläger

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba II, 2019, acrylic on panel

Revue, 2018, acrylic on canvas

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba I, 2019, acrylic on panel

Echo, 2017, acrylic on canvas

Installation view, Rouche Court, Wiltshire, UK, 2021

After Malevich Prints, 2011, screenprint, 29.5 x 29.5cm

After Malevich Dream 1, 2012, paper on panel

After Malevich 27, 2012, paper on panel

Rain, Pale Blue, 2007, acrylic on canvas

Flight Dark, 2008, acrylic on canvas

How Strange…, 2001, acrylic on linen, 145 x 116 cm

Cream with Red, 2001, acrylic on linen

L to R: Always Now; Kima; Cast, 1981. Installation view, Artissima, Turin, Italy, 2021

Diversion, 1987, acrylic on canvas

At Six O’Clock, 1966, oil on canvas

Garden of Anna, 1966, oil on canvas

Tess Jaray with Mural for British Pavilion, Expo International, Montreal, Canada, 1967


 
 

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