How does a simple line become a horizon? When do we begin to see colors and shapes as a
landscape? Michelle Jezierski's painting homes in on the tipping point at which our perception
begins to oscillate between color surface and space representation. At that very point she
captures the essence of the landscape as such which is not a concrete place but a metaphor for
inner states of affairs. To get there Jezierski distills what she sees in her surroundings
down to the elements of painting-shapes and colors-which just barely intimate a pictorial space
while persistently drifting toward abstraction. The defining feature of her technique is that
she layers several pictorial planes and spaces on the canvas in staggered arrangements.
"Perpetually discovering new ways to unsettle the visual space " as she puts it she engenders
ruptures and structures that open up multiple perspectives and a portal for reflection on one's
own perception. Above all however the cuts lend her pictures a peculiar rhythm that
powerfully pulls in the gaze making the reader paging through this catalogue forget time and
space.
