Jean Junkala
The unique motif formed by weaving threads of pastels has given Jean Junkala her own distinguishable style and set her apart in her field. This technique was developed as a way to represent the interplay of light as it is reflected, absorbed, split, diffracted and recombined in nature — to be optically mixed within each viewer's eyes.
Born in Ohio, Jean received formal education in fine arts at Wright State University and at the Baum School of Art in Pennsylvania.
Her works have been exhibited at the National Arts Club gallery in New York City, across North America and France. She is part of several important collections, including the Loto Quebec Collection.
#JJA-2026 · Est. 1996Curatorial Statement
I select what I cannot explain
The works in this exhibition were not chosen because they are beautiful, though many are. They were not chosen because they are important, though some will be. They were chosen because they produced in me a specific sensation: the feeling of standing at the edge of something I could not name.
That sensation is the exhibition's subject. Not the works themselves — the sensation they produce. I have tried to arrange them so that the visitor encounters it too, in their own way, at their own pace. The sequence is not a narrative. It is a weather system.
eleven artists
- Marta VossOil on canvasDE#JJA-01b. 1978
- Pekka LaineMixed mediaFI#JJA-02b. 1965
- Saoirse BrennanPhotographyIE#JJA-03b. 1990
- Tomás RuizSculptureES#JJA-04b. 1972
- Elina MäkinenOil on canvasFI#JJA-05b. 1984
- Dirk HartmannMixed mediaDE#JJA-06b. 1969
- Yuki TanakaPhotographyJP#JJA-07b. 1988
- Annika SörensenOil on canvasSE#JJA-08b. 1975
- Luca FerrettiSculptureIT#JJA-09b. 1981
- Roos van der BergMixed mediaNL#JJA-10b. 1993
- Hanna KorhonenPhotographyFI#JJA-11b. 1967
Seventy-two works across four disciplines. Each one selected for what it refuses to say.