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About the Artist: Shirley JaffeNancy MozurPublished online: 17 Jan 2008.

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About the Artist: Shirley Jaffe

ords and images seem inadequate to describe the work of inter- nationally acclaimed artist Shirley Jaffe who, in 1949, left the

United States to take up residence in France. This was a time of Abstract Expressionism, when the GI bill supported the adventure of being an artist and the romance of living as an American in Paris.

Throughout the years, Jaffe, in a very individual way, has been defin- ing her creative vision, working primarily in oil on canvas. Within each work, shapes as unique forms, rather than references to representation, are employed against the color white (which also is treated as interactive shape). All forms are of equal importance and nonrepetitive, suggesting randomness and chaos organized into one wholeness. In Jaffe’s words:

The eye absorbs a ‘‘lot’’ every single day, and perhaps an art can be made not through a distillation of that ‘‘lot’’ but by making it altogether and giving that togetherness a sense; this is what indeed I want to do, “rnanyness.”. . . Start with a given “situation” and then proceed with invented happening- focusing on events and movement, trying to be open to the unexpected and the unplanned, to be later re-absorbed into the order by means of color.

Recently, the artist completed a set of stained-glass windows for the newly restored 600-year-old chapel, Chapelle Saint-Jean-I’Evangkliste, in southern France. Although her paintings “act with the compact and immediate presence of a wall,’” this commission presented an interesting challenge in which light floods through the stained-glass compositions, adding the element of dimension.

‘Hindry, Ann, “Shirley Jaffe’s Exclusive Visual Thinking.” In the Tibor de Nagy Gallery’s exhibition catalogue, New York, October-November zooz.

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If we took a moment to view in reverie, could Shirley Jaffe's paint- ing speak of' the interior life within a city, cleaved by the river Seine, where walks between t w o banks create worlds of thought, energy, rhythm, color, and shape?

See and enjoy her art for yourself.

-Nancy Moztrr

Shirley Jaffe is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York and Nathalie Ohadia, Paris.

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Shirley Jafte, Riqrret ZZ, ZOOI. Oil on canvas, 64-1lr" x 51-112'' (163 .7 x 131.2 cm). Private collection

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