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Backstory: Orange Takes Flight by Jen Pack 

  • By Aly Jensen
  • 05 Jan, 2021
Jen Pack, Orange Takes Flight, Fabric, Thread and Wood, 33 x 80 x 3.50 in, $9200 ($920/mo)
Jen Pack, Orange Takes Flight, Fabric, Thread and Wood, 33 x 80 x 3.50 in, $9200 ($920/mo)

Orange Takes Flight by New Mexico artist Jen Pack has been a favorite of mine since starting at the gallery. Its gorgeous colors and its sheer size is captivating and the combination of sculpture and “canvas” brings in a harmonious dissonance to life. Recently, I asked Jen to chat with me a little bit about this piece to better understand it’s beauty and I’ve fallen even more in love.


“At some point I began creating pieces in the shape of chevrons—it is an expanding shape and one of balance and open welcome."


Orange Takes Flight up-close detail
Orange Takes Flight up-close detail
"This was one of the first chevron pieces I was able to create in an asymmetric form. I generally tend toward the ‘hot’ end of the color spectrum and went all in with yellows, pinks and orange in this work. The yellow is particularly vibrant and is silk I purchased while on a visit to Korea and haven’t been able to find since. It is the brightest, most luminous yellow I have come across—one so ‘pure’ in hue that it nearly shimmers a lime tone underneath the yellow (at least that is what I see vibrating in the undertone). When I completed the piece, it seemed ready for lift off, like a butterfly. Orange Takes Flight is a name in reference to the migration of monarch butterflies. It may seem a misnomer because there is more yellow than orange in the work, but orange is, as we all know, a combination of yellow and red. It is a reference to integration and the unseen symmetries that create the structures for colorsight.”
Aly Jensen, author
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