Current – Copyright © 2022 Christine Jantz

Examining the cognitive bias of reference dependence and expectations. Occasionally described as gestural abstract or provisional art, current work utilizes the base canvas as an integral part of the finished work. See installation photos in About.

Early Spring Light

Light streaming through trees against a wintry background.

2024-02-15, acrylic on canvas, 60x72x1.375

Winter Light

Sunlight breaking through the gray of winter anticipates the coming spring.

01-31-2024, acrylic on canvas, 60x72x1.375

Small Studies, Blue

Flowing, melting, melding ripples.

07-27-2023, acrylic on canvas, 12x12x1.5

Installation photo by Groover Labs, Wichita KS: Vertical Lines, Kansas; Analog; More Cowbell, Groover

3 Paintings

From left to right: "Vertical Lines, Kansas", "Analog" and "More Cowbell, Groover".

Vertical Lines, Kansas envisions rows of corn in sunlight.

Analog contrasts with the digital world created within the Maker Space at Groover.

More Cowbell, Groover envelopes visitors with open arms.

08-26-2023, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

Vertical Lines - Deeper

Impressions of sunlight through forest green in late summer.

03-26-2023, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

Speaking A Different Language - The Blue Picture, 2023-02-28 — "Speaking A Different Language - The Blue Painting": Installed by the Corporate Art Loan Program at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

Speaking a Different Language - The Blue Painting

Hieroglyphics, computer language, dots and dashes, long and short. Colors occupy a frame and create frames within frames.

02-28-2023, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

Speaking a Different Language

Hieroglyphics, computer language, dots and dashes, long and short. Colors occupy a frame and create frames within frames.

11-02-2022, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

Vertical Lines - Plasma

Plasma is often called “the fourth state of matter,” along with solid, liquid and gas. Just as a liquid will boil, changing into a gas when energy is added, heating a gas will form a plasma – a soup of positively charged particles (ions) and negatively charged particles (electrons).

03-04-2023, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

Vertical Lines

Impressions of sunlight through trees.

11-19-2022, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

More Cowbell - Exuberance

Exuberance, exploding on the canvas in blues and violets. More Cowbell, a pop culture idiom introduced in a Saturday Night Live skit, means adding something extra.

03-07-2023, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

More Cowbell*

Inspired by the fluidity of an audience reaching out to a performer on stage (Florence and the Machine) and the performer reaching back.

*Reference: SNL skit.

10-15-2022, acrylic on canvas, 48x72x1.5

Drips

Suggestive of three strata forming the top (sky and trees), middle (top soil) and bottom (roots). Left to fill in the details, provisional art creates its own form of cognitive bias in the viewer.

12-10-2022, mixed media, 48x60x1.5

mon amie, 3 Panels

Expansion on dynamic versus static exploration theme, this work begins a new series exploring ways of framing. It has a hint of three panels - created through paint texture and mixing of colors on the canvas.

8-13-2022, acrylic on canvas, 36x48x1.5

5 Siblings

Exploration of dynamics, this painting began the exploration of adding texture elements in mixing color on canvas.

06-13-2022, acrylic on canvas, 48x60x1.5