Kristy Jane Part-Time Faculty - Painting, Art, Art History & Design Contact 301 Sparkman DriveWilson HallRoom 160Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map art@uah.edu Biography Kristy Jane thinks fast and paints slowly with rarely idle incredibly soft hands. Their impulsive visual reference system is embedded in countless layers of nuanced color systems and shameless quotes from art history tangled up with their own to an indecipherable measure. Thought of as an ideal venue for too-muchness, a love affair with oil paint has dominated their practice, however, the work is often accompanied by objects, videos, and other forms of real and make-believe documentation. Through the act of painting, Jane creates a beautiful chaos just to the brink of feeling impossible as if solely for the possibility to navigate their way through it over time. Finishing is thought of as optional due to their simultaneously sticky and slippery intuitive process. Jane is unable to leave their work until the moment they recognize within it, a complete unknown. In addition to being a lover, a mother, a stranger to no one, Jane is a studio art instructor in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Kristy Jane leaves their mark on anything that will have it. Their current studio is located in the feral space of a gestalt shift. Curriculum Vitae Education M.F.A. in Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1999 B.F.A. in Printmaking, University of South Alabama in Mobile Honors & Awards 08.2022 Bunkey Frame Award, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) 02.2022 PAFA Fine Arts Venture Fund Grant Recipient 02.2020 Low-Res MFA Artistic Excellence Scholarship, PAFA Exhibitions & Presentations aRtEVOLUTION, Clinton Avenue, Huntsville, AL, Curator: Jahni Moore, 2020 Bad Kids Summer Camp: Big Communications Showdown, Birmingham AL, Curator: Gregory Price, 2019 Echoes, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan AL, Curator: Dana-Marie Lemmer, 2018 New Flesh on Old Bones, UAH Huntsville, AL, 2017 Expertise Visual Art
