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<\/a>Rinsed by Andrea Jensen, on exhibit at Finch Lane Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n
Andrea Jensen is a masterful articulator of boundaries \u2014\u00a0 not the pretty kind, the ones you were told not to venture outside of with your crayon, but the boundaries where phenomena collide at force, where humanity is compelled to acknowledge itself. \u00a0These boundaries are \u201ctruth moments\u201d for Jensen, who paints the truth as graphically as it occurs in her consciousness, and her semi-recognizable though mostly obscured signs of powers pushing against each other become ours to grapple with.<\/p>\n
Consumption, consumerism, raging appetites, the rapidly growing pace of lifestyles, and race for commodities fill Jensen\u2019s canvases with vibrant colors: reds, yellows, lime green, and intensive focal points of nearly black mark these landscapes.\u00a0 Spray paint, acrylic and marker are the makings of \u201cRinsed,\u201d a canvas whose title says very much.\u00a0 One might imagine the artist creating this piece with the phallic like abstract form of infinity blue surrounded by psychedelic colors thinking, \u201cHas the world gone mad?\u201d and Jensen, with \u201cRinsed,\u201d washing her hands of the mess.<\/p>\n
Jensen\u2019s visual depictions of conflicting forces come from her philosophical view on human society. \u201cAs a society, we alternate between a need for technological progress and a return to nature, prompted by our desires,\u201d she says. \u00a0The dialectic between the need for technological progression and a return to nature has as its synthesis in human desires and it is here, in the willful diversity and intensity of human passions, that the paramount clash in her art erupts.<\/p>\n