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While most people find their inspiring vistas at hilltops and roadside overlooks, painter Jane McNichol often heads for the lowlands. Her minimalist, near abstract canvasses, writes a reviewer, give us a sense of infinite openness, of clear, clean, newly oxygenated horizons such as might have occurred or existed at the birth of the world. The images collected here are a selection of paintings and monoprints that Jane McNichol has made over the last 15 years. Drawn to the deep flat spaces of the mid-west, discovered on a cross-country trip with artist friends, she arrived at her current style with the painting Lakeland (1992). Since that time, she has sought to reduce the elements of the landscapes she observes to the bare minimum. Jane McNichol continues to be intrigued by nature, as she sees it - a sublime light show that plays across land, water and sky. Earlier this year Jane received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. Other awards include an Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal from the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Foundation and a grant from the Friends of the Contemporary Art Center in North Adams, Massachusetts. Also a MacDowell Fellow, McNichol has exhibited her paintings, prints and photographs in one person and group exhibitions in museums, galleries and juried shows across the United States. Her paintings hang in more than 40 private collections and numerous corporate ones, including Reader's Digest, McGraw Hill and Wyeth Laboratories. A native of Philadelphia, McNichol earned a bachelor's degree in studio arts from Temple University and studied in Rome, Italy, with Temple's Tyler School of Art.

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