Installation view of Nicole Jenny,\u00a0The Beauty of Mathematics: The Nature of Reality<\/em>, Gallery 1313<\/p>\n Now on to the specifics. There\u2019s a generous amount of paint on these surfaces. It\u2019s been applied in several ways: with conventional brushstrokes, with stippled brush marks, and in some cases, it looks as if colours have been blended on the surface with a palette knife although only brushes have been used. Often the same canvas will go through several iterations \u2013 unsatisfactory paintings are simply overpainted and added to until the artist is happy with them.<\/p>\n In Solid Rain<\/em> the surface is full of finely detailed smears that, up-close, look like photos of the earth\u2019s surface from space. The crisp edges between colours also evokes something crystalline, bearing a resemblance to images of basalt under a microscope.<\/p>\n Nicole Jenny, Solid Rain, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 18\u201d x 24\u201d<\/p>\n In Spiral<\/em>, the colours are applied thickly with a brush. The vortex geometry and diminishing brushstroke size suggests depth while the even brightness and surface texture pull us back to the materiality of the surface. The image reminds one of photos of the interior of the CERN Hadron collider, a far-off galaxy or an illustration of the distortion around a black hole.<\/p>\n Nicole Jenny, Spiral, 2018, acrylic on canvas,\u00a024\u201d x 30″<\/p>\n In \u2018Swirls\u2019 the paint has been built up in several layers. The image shifts and changes. One can imagine seeing a vibrant coral reef or perhaps the layered, colourful clouds in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rsz_nicolejennyg1313-installation-2000px.jpg\")
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