Elisa Jensen, Yellow Skirt, Brooklyn, 2014, oil on linen, 52 x 78 inches (© Elisa Jensen Image courtesy of the artist)
Elisa Jensen shares the backstory on the work currently on view in her show Street Lines at The Painting Center, New York, through November 23, 2014.
Jensen notes: "My painting is rooted in a place—Brooklyn, at the moment—but as a general matter I am not a faithful copyist of the everyday... And speaking of combining the ancient and the modern, I see a tremendous connection between what’s happening on the corner of Nassau and Manhattan Avenue and The Book of Kells, the Lindesfarne Gospels, and the Book of Durrow."
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