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Bamboo Grid Olive Green — Abstract painting by Jean Alexander Frater

$3,375.00

Bamboo Grid Olive Green

Jean Alexander Frater
Bamboo Grid Olive Green, 2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
30 × 30 in

The Artwork

In Bamboo Grid Olive Green, Jean Alexander Frater reconsiders the grid as something tactile, flexible, and in motion. Hand-cut strips of painted canvas overlap to create a rhythmic woven structure, transforming the familiar geometry of the grid into a richly dimensional field of intersections, shadows, and shifting color.

Olive green establishes the work’s grounding tone, while peach, blue, and light tan create moments of softness and visual lift. The palette carries a calm, organic sensibility, but Frater’s construction resists stillness: each overlapping strip changes the surface, making the composition feel both measured and responsive.

The Bamboo Grid series reveals a central tension in Frater’s work—between formal order and the expressive unpredictability of the hand. What may initially read as a geometric abstraction becomes, on closer inspection, a record of cutting, layering, and reassembly. The painting’s grid is not printed or mechanically repeated; it is built, touched, and subtly disrupted. In doing so, Frater invites viewers to experience the canvas as both image and object, structure and gesture.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Jean Alexander Frater

  • Title: Bamboo Grid Olive Green

  • Year: 2022

  • Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

  • Dimensions: 30 × 30 in

  • Style: Contemporary abstract, woven canvas painting

Bamboo Grid Olive Green

Jean Alexander Frater
Bamboo Grid Olive Green, 2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
30 × 30 in

The Artwork

In Bamboo Grid Olive Green, Jean Alexander Frater reconsiders the grid as something tactile, flexible, and in motion. Hand-cut strips of painted canvas overlap to create a rhythmic woven structure, transforming the familiar geometry of the grid into a richly dimensional field of intersections, shadows, and shifting color.

Olive green establishes the work’s grounding tone, while peach, blue, and light tan create moments of softness and visual lift. The palette carries a calm, organic sensibility, but Frater’s construction resists stillness: each overlapping strip changes the surface, making the composition feel both measured and responsive.

The Bamboo Grid series reveals a central tension in Frater’s work—between formal order and the expressive unpredictability of the hand. What may initially read as a geometric abstraction becomes, on closer inspection, a record of cutting, layering, and reassembly. The painting’s grid is not printed or mechanically repeated; it is built, touched, and subtly disrupted. In doing so, Frater invites viewers to experience the canvas as both image and object, structure and gesture.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Jean Alexander Frater

  • Title: Bamboo Grid Olive Green

  • Year: 2022

  • 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