Winter Windows 1967

Jane Frank made this painting, Winter Windows, with big, bold shapes and colors that feel both raw and considered. It's like she's wrestling with the paint right there on the surface. The painting is all about the push and pull of texture. The red is so dense and opaque it's almost sculptural, while the black areas feel more fluid and transparent, like ink bleeding into the canvas. And check out the little details, the bits of white peeking through the gaps, they're like tiny breaths of air in this otherwise heavy composition. There's one part, especially, where the red and black meet, and it looks like she scraped away some of the paint to reveal what’s underneath. This becomes a metaphor for how we see things, not as fixed objects, but as always in process, always changing. I'm reminded of the work of Joan Mitchell, another artist who wasn’t afraid to get messy and emotional with her materials. Like Mitchell, Frank invites us to experience painting as an ongoing conversation, full of questions and possibilities.