Jenik's Exaltations ... by D.F. Colman
 
Jeniks sensetively painted works on paper seize you (somehow,gently) by the throat and they dont let go.
 
This sensitive art-making process isn't so sweet and guiless any more. the work shakes rattle and roles as it sings sweet lullabies to the viewer. There is an unabashed passion, which makes itself evident in artis't latest body of work. reflecting sonorous and deeply creative mind.
 
What we sense and feel in Jenik' s recent works on paper are the cumelative energies of grand master's such as Sam Francis's works of seventies , Miro's elaborate overall works of the fiftie's and the propulsive yet lyrical surges of Franz Kline's energie's , albeit softened with just the right touch of Jenik's ever present lyricism.
 
Jenik's looming and tremulous markmaking and the use of color evoke the gathering of fading perceptions and the locus of newly emerging interpretations that include the persuasive anrevaling of closed systems. Plyayfulness and paradox infiltrate the artis'ts efforts. One of these paradoxe , visually speaking, is the issue of relative space which allows us as viewers to concieve of parts of infinite spaces, Voids within fullness.
 
Jenik's often out-sized loops and calligraphic like segments careen and hover inside the picture planes of brightly collored grounds. she suggest , metaphorically , that these is a range of metaphysical musings on time and space which is induced by her mark-making and coloristic adventures; additionally expansive readinds and psychologically dense inferences are also read through the renderings of form,color and space.
 
Jenik's abstractions, comprised in part of the basic expressive unit of gestural abstraction: the painterly mark of the brushstroke against brightly saturated colors, create luminous high- voltage pictorial fields of stunning grace and amplitude..Her works remind us of the philosopher Shelling's comment that was a resolution of an infinite contradiction in a finite object, And how true this is of Jenik's work. Here intensity and relaxedness, accident and design, speed and quitude, the infinite grandeur of small spaces, the expressively random pattern-making all points of contrast and contradiction co-exist gracefullyand, seemingly, naturally.
 
Jenik's achivement in her body of art work is to have arrived at a point in her mastery to create works that are not only pictorially engaging on formal levels but to create, also, philosophically teasing and profound images. Artist's visionary visual exultations refer to the enigmatic presence of lived life, aware of itself and of its limitation, yet pressing on and filled with a sense of exultation at infinite possibilities. This vision is a fine legacy for us as viewerw to bask in.
 
D.F Colman is an arts writer residing in Manhattan.