Color Zones is my most recent body of work.

Zones refer to bands of color which are sheets of painted paper.

Some edges are cut, some painted, and some cast shadows.

With a shift in the viewer’s position, interference pigment will alter a specific color.

Color Zones project out an inch from the wall and the backs are painted so as to bounce the subject color into the wall shadow.

Each color relationship reads boldly from a distance, while upon closer inspection, more subtle color interaction becomes visible.

Obbligato Orange
18 x 6 inches

Ian Alveteer, Assistant Curator Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York wrote:

"Jane Lincoln’s elegant and abstracted Color Zones bring to mind the work of painters of the 1960s and ‘70s such as Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, or Blinky Palermo, who used solid planes of color to represent the world around them (Kelly’s canvases in particular are grounded in observed reality, whether the curve of the page of a book or a landscape glimpsed from a train window). The push and pull of various colors as they interact with one another is brought gracefully to life in Lincoln’s layered work – each area of color is a separately painted stratum she then carefully collages."

Alvateer awarded this painting second place in the 32nd Annual Faber Birren Color Award Show at the Stamford Art Association in September of 2012. Over four hundred entries were received, forty-seven works were selected, and three awards were presented.

Tall Violet
148 x 42 inches
Provincetown Art Association
and Museum, 2011

Buoyant Blue
24 x 12 inches

Relentless Rose
14 x 18 inches

Penetrating Periwinkle
7 x 5 inches

Gracious Gold
16 x 20 inches

Viable Violet
24 x 18 inches