The Art of Tess Jaray

Examining the geometry of pattern, repetition, color and architectural form
within her surroundings, British artist Tess Jaray has explored painterly perspective
for more than five decades. Areas of pattern whether polygons, waves or
rectangles are contained by a strong background colour, thereby controlling
the movement of the forms. This extensively illustrated survey of Jaray s paintings
from the 1960s to the present is accompanied by texts that situate the artist
within the tradition of abstract painting and the history of art, from Kazimir
Malevich and Lucio Fontana to Italian architecture and Islamic mosaics. Jaray
has had solo exhibitions at both the Whitechapel Gallery and the Serpentine.
Texts by Richard Davey, John Stezaker and Alison Wilding, along with an interview
by Alister Warman.