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Bamboo Grid Light Blue — Abstract painting by Jean Alexander Frater

$3,375.00

Bamboo Grid Light Blue

Jean Alexander Frater
Bamboo Grid Light Blue, 2021
Acrylic paint on canvas
30 × 30 in

The Artwork

Bamboo Grid Light Blue presents Jean Alexander Frater’s woven-canvas practice in a fresh, buoyant palette of light blue, pink, green, and beige. Built from hand-cut strips of painted canvas, the work transforms a traditional grid into a layered composition that feels soft, rhythmic, and quietly kinetic.

Light blue lends the painting an airy, open atmosphere, while pink and green introduce lively points of contrast. Beige brings the palette back to the material presence of canvas itself, reinforcing Frater’s interest in painting as a constructed object. As the strips overlap, the work gathers visual depth: colors meet, disappear, and reappear, while small shifts in relief create a changing play of light across the surface.

Frater’s woven paintings grow from an ongoing interest in the histories and assumptions of abstraction. She takes its recognizable vocabulary—repetition, stripes, color fields, and grids—and gives it a physical body. In Bamboo Grid Light Blue, geometry becomes less rigid and more responsive: a framework shaped by the hand, enlivened by touch, and continually altered by the viewer’s position in space.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Jean Alexander Frater

  • Title: Bamboo Grid Light Blue

  • Year: 2021

  • Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

  • Dimensions: 30 × 30 in

  • Style: Contemporary abstract, woven canvas painting

Bamboo Grid Light Blue

Jean Alexander Frater
Bamboo Grid Light Blue, 2021
Acrylic paint on canvas
30 × 30 in

The Artwork

Bamboo Grid Light Blue presents Jean Alexander Frater’s woven-canvas practice in a fresh, buoyant palette of light blue, pink, green, and beige. Built from hand-cut strips of painted canvas, the work transforms a traditional grid into a layered composition that feels soft, rhythmic, and quietly kinetic.

Light blue lends the painting an airy, open atmosphere, while pink and green introduce lively points of contrast. Beige brings the palette back to the material presence of canvas itself, reinforcing Frater’s interest in painting as a constructed object. As the strips overlap, the work gathers visual depth: colors meet, disappear, and reappear, while small shifts in relief create a changing play of light across the surface.

Frater’s woven paintings grow from an ongoing interest in the histories and assumptions of abstraction. She takes its recognizable vocabulary—repetition, stripes, color fields, and grids—and gives it a physical body. In Bamboo Grid Light Blue, geometry becomes less rigid and more responsive: a framework shaped by the hand, enlivened by touch, and continually altered by the viewer’s position in space.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Jean Alexander Frater

  • Title: Bamboo Grid Light Blue

  • Year: 2021

  • Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

  • Dimensions: 30 × 30 in

  • Style: Contemporary abstract, woven canvas painting

Jean Alexander Frater Biography

Jean Alexander Frater’s practice explores the material possibilities of painting, bringing together histories, traditions, and conceptual frameworks through works that are both visceral and formally rigorous. By folding, layering, cutting, and manipulating canvas like fabric, she transforms gestural marks into disruptions of form and meaning, developing a visual language shaped by ripples, grids, gradients, and stripes. Her woven and folded works move between large-scale physical presence and more intimate studies in color and structure, continually testing the boundary between painting and sculpture.

Frater holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Dayton. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Images Festival in Toronto, Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, and Aspect/Ratio in Chicago. She is also the director of Material, a nonprofit artist project space in Chicago, extending her commitment to experimentation and dialogue within contemporary art.

“I am interested in painting as a site of physical and conceptual transformation, where the canvas can be folded, cut, and reconfigured to carry a presence beyond image. Through surface, structure, and gesture, I try to let the material itself generate new meaning.”

– Jean Alexander Frater