Demi-Mondaine

Fay Jones is one of the Northwest's most well known artists.  She is a figurative painter who acknowledges the underlying narrative with confident originality.  Her work is layered and theatrical, boldly colored, smoothly curved and often highly patterned.  The artist describes this painting as a heavily constructed and very deliberate painting of an aloof, displaced woman with other disconnected figures in an appropriated Chinese landscape.  I was living in the south of France where I was acutely aware of being a foreigner.  I was able to use that awareness to my advantage in the studio.

Location: North end of the Grand Lobby