Current Artwork

Jean is interested in the visual, psychological, and cultural meaning of play and games. Past artwork referenced gameboards such as checkers and parcheesi. Her current work uses forms such as cat's cradle and dice to examine ideas about luck, cheating, competition, and the experience of winning or losing. 

This body of work often begins with the crooked structure of a used steel tree basket.  Jean makes elegant enameled sections of pattern and text and places them alongside colorful found tin.  The ideas, forms, and materials all express the tensions between necessary persistence, inevitable distraction, and sustaining serious play.