Jocelyn Fine
I am fascinated by the search for what lies beneath the surface and by exploration of the process involved in creating marks from memory. My art is informed by my experiences as an art conservator, a teacher, and by growing up in a family of artists.
My goal as a painter is to be present and available to the energy around me and my intuition. My process is about adding on and wiping away, with each layer of paint and each brush stroke representing a moment in time, aging and also being reborn. I am drawn to colors; the feelings that they evoke and the effect and intensity that they have when they share the same space. Layering color and form, slipping in and out of focus, my paintings breathe life force and vitality with each stroke.
Jocelyn Fine
I am fascinated by the search for what lies beneath the surface and by exploration of the process involved in creating something from nothing. My art is informed by my experiences as an art conservator, a teacher, and by growing up in a family of artists.
My goal as a painter is to be present and available to the energy around me and my intuition. My process is about adding on and wiping away, with each layer of paint and each brush stroke representing a moment in time, aging and also being reborn. I am drawn to colors; the feelings that they evoke and the effect and intensity that they have when they share the same space. Layering color and form, slipping in and out of focus, my paintings breathe life force and vitality with each stroke. This is how I see the world, this is my art.
Artist Statement
Jocelyn Fine (b. 1969, Pittsburg, PA) received both a B.F.A in Fine Art and a B.A. in Art History from the University of Vermont and her M.S. in Architectural and Painting Conservation from Columbia University. She studied Painting Conservation at the Istituto Per l’Arte and il Restauro in Florence, Italy, and completed painting conservation internships at the MoMa, the Guggenheim, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Fine’s work is held by private and institutional collectors throughout the United States and Canada.
Fine comes from a family of multi-generational artists. Her great-aunt was one of the first female gallerists in NYC (Pinacotheca, Rose Fried Gallery); her mother is a sculptor, one brother is a painter, another a filmmaker, and her sister chairs the art sector of the finance company Yieldstreet. Her work is about memory, shapes, emotions, and colors associated with landscapes and distant places. Often centering on the enormity of the natural world; the power and strength of the land, and the ephemerality of mankind, her landscapes have a dream-like quality that transcends time. Her work is grounded in the belief that there is an energy in nature that unifies and connects everything.
JOCELYN FINE CV
Jocelyn Zoe Fine
EDUCATION
BFA, Painting, BA Art History University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
MS, Painting Conservation, GSAPP Columbia University, New York, NY
Istituto Per L’Arte et Il Restauro, Florence Italy
Timothy Hawkesworth Workshops (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021)
SELECT ONE OR TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Balancing Act, Dvora PopUpGallery, Jersey City, curated by Anne Trauben and James Pustorino
2020 Lobby Exhibition, curated by James Pustorino, Oakman, Jersey City NJ
2018 Related, curated by Catherine Delett Gallery 103, Maplewood, NJ
2018 Open Studio, curated by Tara O’Leary Gallery, Maplewood NJ
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Maker Muse Gallery, curated by Brian Dittmor, Maplewood, NJ
New York Design Center, NYC, NY curated by Jerry Sullivan
175 2nd Avenue, curated by James Pustorino, Jersey City
MSC Custom Picture Frame and Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2020 160 First Street, The Oakman, Jersey City, NJ
Maker Muse Gallery, Maplewood NJ
MSC Custom Picture Frame and Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2019 Inspiring Minds Valley Arts Gallery, Orange, NJ.
Art for a Cause 580 Prospect Street, South Orange, NJ.
Sutra Series Maker Muse Gallery, Maplewood NJ
Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Essex Art Exhibit Gallery TSTI, South Orange, NJ,
2018 Paint the Town Yellow curated by Jane Quinn, Short Story Gallery, Madison, NJ.
The (P)Optimism Spot, curated by Riley John Donnell, Kingston, NY
2017 Studio Art Tour, The Woodland, Maplewood and South Orange, NJ
2016 Studio Art Tour, Baird Center, South Orange, NJ.
AWARDS & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Featured in NBC’s George to the Rescue, April 27, 2019
NJ Home 2018, Winter Edition
Recipient of a Goldstein-Decker grant from Chapin School
Outstanding Thesis, Mortar or Stucco: Re-thinking the Van Cortlandt Manor, 1997
Department Chair/Art Teacher, Montclair Kimberley Academy, 2017-
Art Teacher, The Chapin School, NY 2006-2017
Society for the Preservation of Weeksville, Bed-Stuyvesant Brooklyn 2004-2005
Art Conservator, Building Conservation Associates, NYC,1997-2001
Preservation Consultant, Historic Hudson Valley, NY 1996-1997