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Jane Harris: New Painting was on view at The Aldrich from summer 2005 to spring 2006 in her first solo US exhibition.

Curator and Aldrich exhibitions director Richard Klein wrote, “Harris, at least on the surface, seems to be primarily a formalist.  Each painting is a controlled experiment limited to a tightly prescribed geometry of elliptical form that utilizes only two colors, painted with a uniform pattern of parallel brush marks.  The unity of the surface is not only a result of the deliberate paint application, but of the fact that each painting is usually made with two different widths of brush—one for the interior of the elliptical shape(s) and one for the surrounding area.  . . .  What is not readily apparent is the physical discipline: each painting has a minimum of five layers of oil paint . . . For a large painting, such as Divine, this translates into sixteen contiguous hours of paint application!  But just as all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, Harris has figured a way to mitigate the drudgery: color!”