Tess Jaray: Return to Vienna: An Exhibition Exploring Geometric Paintings and Architecture

This exhibition showcases the recent works of British artist Tess Jaray, who has Austrian roots, focusing on her exploration of the relationship between painting and architecture. It highlights her formally reduced, geometric painting style, which probes the connections between image and viewer.

Return to Vienna: The Paintings of Tess Jaray presents a selection of 25 works by the British artist Tess Jaray, who was born in Vienna and holds Austrian roots. The exhibition deliberately avoids a retrospective approach, instead highlighting works created predominantly in recent years, exploring contemporary questions in Jaray's practice, such as her engagement with the historical topos of the round image in art history. Complementing the recent paintings are five pieces from the 1960s, a crucial period where Jaray developed her signature style: non-representational, formalist painting characterized by geometric basic forms, patterns, repetition, and precision. These works investigate the spatial, perceptual, and emotional relationships within art. Jaray's artistic journey is marked by diverse influences, stemming from her upbringing as the child of Jewish emigrants and her subsequent life in England. Her work was shaped by Viennese cultural figures like Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschka, as well as her later engagement with German Expressionism and American Abstract Expressionism. Two constant sources of inspiration have been the painting and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, particularly Piero della Francesca, and Islamic art, which she encountered through travels. Jaray intellectually, emotionally, and intuitively transforms these influences into her distinctive formal language. The exhibition's predominantly large-format paintings play with geometric forms, simple patterns, and carefully balanced color fields or strong contrasts, aiming for visual effects like spatial illusion and optical shimmering, offering both sensual and intellectual stimulation and demanding concentrated viewing.

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