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| training = [[Harvard University]], [[Tufts University]], [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]]

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'''Jane Fine''' (born 1958) is an American [[visual artist]] ~~known for paintings that blend cartoonish, pop-culture abstraction with personal and socio-political subject matter~~.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Fine |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5354319 |access-date=15 July 2024 |website=Christie's}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Ken |title=Art in Review: Jane Fine -- 'After Sugar Time' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/art-in-review-jane-fine-after-sugar-time.html |access-date=15 July 2024 |publisher=New York Times |date=2 April 2004}}</ref> She has been an active participant in [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn]]'s art scene since the 1980s, having been featured in historical exhibitions including ''Williamsburg2000'', in which the art critic [[Hrag Vartanian]] referred to the borough as the "epicenter of the city’s artistic edge" in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vartanian |first1=Hrag |title=Back to the Future, the Williamsburg that Waz |url=https://hyperallergic.com/20972/williamsburg2000/ |website=Hyperallergic |access-date=15 July 2024 |date=24 March 2011}}</ref> Her work has been associated with graffiti and the work of [[Philip Guston]], who she ~~had a chance to meet when he was a visiting artist~~met at [[Harvard University]].<ref>http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/garcia-fenech/garcia-fenech1-5-01.asp</ref> ~~Since~~She ~~2007, in addition to her individual work, she has also created and exhibited art~~collaborates with her husband, the painter [[James Esber]], asunder the ~~artist-duo~~pseudonym "J. Fiber".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Supanick |first1=Jim |title=Makin’Whopee: A Conversation with J. Fiber; James Esber and Jane Fine |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2008/04/art/makin-whoopee-a-conversation-with-j-fiber~~| title=Makin’ Whoopee: A Conversation with J. Fiber, James Esber and Jane Fine with Jim Supanick~~ | ~~publisher~~website=The Brooklyn Rail | access-date=~~April~~24 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240624203125/https://brooklynrail.org/2008/04/art/makin-whoopee-a-conversation-with-j-fiber |archive-date=2024-06-24}}</ref>

==Early life and education==

Jane Fine grew up in New York City.<ref>{{cite web |title=Episode 62: Jane Fine: Abstract Artist Discovers Family Secret |url=https://soundcloud.com/user-182425052/62-jane-fine-abstract-artist-discovers-a-family-secret/s-1YGsmXZ6ozc |website=Happiness Through Hardship |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> She attended [[Hunter College High School]] and enrolled at [[Harvard University]] as a mathematics major, but then switched majors to focus on studio art.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carey |first1=Brainard |title=Jane Fine |url=https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/authorsite/jane-fine/ |website=Museum of Non-Visible Art |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> After graduating with a B.A. [[magna cum laude]] in Visual and Environmental Studies, she studied painting for two years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and went on to receive her M.A. from [[Tufts University]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carey |first1=Brainard |title=Jane Fine |url=https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/authorsite/jane-fine/ |website=Museum of Non-Visible Art |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> In 1989, she attended the [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]] ~~along with [[Chris Ware]], [[Eve Sussman]], and [[Leonardo Drew]], among other artists~~.<ref>{{cite web |title=People Database |url=https://people.skowheganart.org/index.php |website=Skowhegan |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

==Career==

In 1985, Fine became one of the founding members of [[124 Ridge Street Gallery]] in the [[Lower East Side]], and participated in the gallery until 1988.<ref>{{cite web |title=May 5, 1986 members of the 124 Ridge Street Gallery |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=762439130472131&id=589959587720087&_rdr |website=Facebook |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> In 1986, Fine moved to [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]] and became an active participant in the neighborhood's growing artist community, for which she was consulted in Ann Fensterstock's book ''Art on the Block: Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fensterstock |first1=Ann |title=Art on the Block: Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond |date=2013 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |pages=XIII, 140, 250, 251}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Fine |url=https://www.janefine.net/bio |website=Verdad Magazine |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kalm |first1=James |title=Brooklyn Dispatches |journal=The Brooklyn Rail |date=June 2008 |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2008/06/art/brooklyn-dispatches-june-08}}</ref>

In the mid-1990s, Fine was represented by [[Casey Kaplan]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |title=Palettes Full of Ideas About What Painting Should Be |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/01/arts/palettes-full-of-ideas-about-what-painting-should-be.html |access-date=15 July 2024 |publisher=New York Times}}</ref> Her 1995 solo show at Casey Kaplan was the gallery's inaugural exhibition.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |title=Art in Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/arts/art-in-review-512895.html |access-date=15 July 2024 |publisher=New York Times |date=14 April 1995}}</ref> Fine showed her work in some of the first commercial exhibition spaces in Williamsburg, including Annie Herron’s Test-Site and Pierogi (originally named Pierogi 2000).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/arts/design/annie-herron-50-an-art-dealer-is-dead.html | title=Annie Herron, 50, an Art Dealer, is Dead | work=The New York Times | date=28 September 2004 }}</ref> She was represented by Pierogi for over 20 years, where she had seven solo exhibitions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Fine |url=https://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/jane-fine/ |website=Pierogi |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Yablonsky |first1=Linda |title=What Makes a Painting a Painting? |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/what-makes-a-painting-a-painting-115/ |website=Artnews |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> Other one-person exhibitions by Fine have been held at locations including [[White Columns]] and the Mitchell Gallery at the [[Ringling College of Art and Design]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Fine Bio |url=https://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/jane-fine/jane-fine-bio/ |website=Pierogi |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=White Room: Jane Fine | url=https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/white-room-jane-fine/|website=White Columns}}</ref>

In 2018, after a [[23andMe]] test, Fine discovered that the man she thought was her biological father was not.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saltz |first1=Jerry |title=25 Things to See, Hear, Watch, and Read Over the Next Two Weeks: Family Matters |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e81019101b2e061b54f36dc/t/5e96139ccf427d598033ad00/1586893725306/Jerry+Saltz%2C+2018.pdf |website=Vulture |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref> She was able to determine the identity of her biological father, a pediatrician she knew as a child named Henry Eisenoff.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/21/archives/hennry-eisen-off-pediatrician-71-aide-at-the-bronxlebanon-haspital.html | title=HENNRY EISEN OFF, PEDIATRICIAN, 71; Aide at the Bronx-Lebanon Haspital Center Dead | work=The New York Times | date=21 March 1964 }}</ref> This patrilineal discovery had a profound impact on the direction of her work, which began to incorporate text as a means to explore the complex range of memories, perceptions, and emotions associated with the event.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.painters-table.com/article/patrilineations-jane-fine-at-pierogi/ | title=Patrilineations: Jane Fine at Pierogi }}</ref> As stated in the press release for the exhibition ''Love, American Style'' (2018) at Pierogi, the newer work deals with the "profound emotional and conceptual gap between the cheerful American dream of her childhood and the growing disappointment and disgust of the Trump years". <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pierogi2000.com/2018/07/jane-fine-at-pierogi-3/ | title=Jane Fine at Pierogi | date=8 July 2018 }}</ref>

==Teaching==

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==Residencies==

*[[Yaddo]], Saratoga Springs, New York (2021, 2011, 2001, 1998, 1996)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://yaddo.org/our-artists/ | title=Our Artists – Yaddo }}</ref>

*[[MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop)|MacDowell]] Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire (2019)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/jane-fine | title=Jane Fine - MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts }}</ref>

*Stephen Pace Artist Residency, [[Fine Arts Work Center]] Provincetown, Provincetown, Massachusetts (2018)<ref>{{cite web |title=All Fellows |url=https://fawc.org/program/all-fellows/ |website=Fine Art Work Center |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

*Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, Englewood, Florida (2015, 2016)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hermitageartistretreat.org/meet-the-artists/ | title=Meet the Artists | }}</ref>

*[[Golden Artist Colors| Golden]] Foundation Residency, New Berlin, New York (2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Residents |url=https://www.goldenfoundation.org/residency/past-residents/ |website=Golden Foundationwilliam |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

*Central City Artist Project, Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans (2010)<ref>{{cite web |title=Central City Artist Project |url=~~https://web.archive.org/web/20101219181039/~~http://www.centralcityartistproject.org/ |website=Central City Artist Project |access-date=15 July 2024 |archive-date=19 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219181039/http://www.centralcityartistproject.org/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

*[[Cité Internationale des ~~Arts~~arts]], Residency, Paris, France (1998)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Fine |url=https://www.citedesartsparis.net/fr/fine-jane |website=Cité internationale des arts |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

*[[Millay_Arts|Millay Colony for the Arts]], Austerlitz, New York (1990)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Fine: "Love, American Style" |url=https://theartguide.com/exhibitions/jane-fine-love-american-style-2/ |website=The Art Guide |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

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*''Jane Fine'', Casey Kaplan, New York (1995)

*''White Room: Jane Fine'', White Columns, New York (1992)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/white-room-jane-fine/ | title=White Room: Jane Fine }}</ref>

~~==Selected group exhibitions==~~

*''Tectonic Abstraction'', Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, Texas (2022)<ref>{{cite web |title=Tectonic Abstraction: Weighty Forms and Colossal Colors |url=https://www.artland.com/exhibitions/tectonic-abstraction-weighty-forms-and-colossal-colors |website=Artland |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

*''Re:Presentation'', curated by [[Dan Cameron]], Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana (2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=RE:REPRESENTATION - PART I |url=https://www.ferrarashowman.com/exhibitions/re-representation-part-i |website=Ferrara Showman Gallery |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>

*''Chromomania: Intoxication via Color'', Bill Arning Exhibitions, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas (2020)

*''Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond'', [[The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery|Tang Teaching Museum]], Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (2020)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/272-never-done-100-years-of-women-in-politics-and-beyond | title=Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond }}</ref>

*''The Chaney Family: A Contemporary Art Collection'', Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas (2021)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pearlmfa.org/past-exhibitions-2/ | title=Past Exhibitions }}</ref>

*''Mediums of Exchange'', Shirley Fiterman Art Center and [[Lehman College]] Art Gallery, [[City University of New York]], New York (2019)

*''Labyrinths of the Mind'', Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York (2019)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://newcriterion.com/2019/05/a-labyrinth-worth-getting-lost-in/ | title=A labyrinth worth getting lost in | the New Criterion | date=28 May 2019 }}</ref>

*'' Summer of Love'', Freight + Volume, New York (2018)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.freightandvolume.com/exhibitions/summer-of-love | title=SUMMER OF LOVE - Exhibitions - Freight+Volume }}</ref>

*''Broad Stripes and Bright Stars'', Ely Center, New Haven, Connecticut (2017)

*''Pop-up Exhibition'', NYFA Curatorial/McKinsey & Company, New York (2015)

*''Pierogi XX: 20th Anniversary Exhibition'', Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2014)

*''Made in Paint'', Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, New York (2013)

*''image/clot'', Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (2012)<ref>https://thevisualist.org/2012/11/imageclot-curated-by-dan-mills-phyllis-bramson-coupling-displays-and-dalliances-of-a-romantic-nature/</ref>

*''Melt'', [[Tang Teaching Museum]], Saratoga Springs, New York (2011)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/84-melt | title=MELT }}</ref>

*''Counterpart'', West Collection, SEI Corporate Campus, Oaks, Pennsylvania (2011)

*''Thinking Through Drawing'', Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2011)

*''Zeichnungen, Graphiken und Fotografien aus New York und Leipzig'', Kunstmühle Mürsbach, Mürsbach, Germany (2010)

*''Mutant Anxiety'', Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, California (2010)

*''Pierogi, et. al.'', Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2008)

*''Art on Paper'', [[Weatherspoon Art Museum]], Winston-Salem, North Carolina (2008)

*''Future Tense'', [[Neuberger Museum of Art]], Purchase, New York (2008)

*''100 Artists, 100 Watercolors'', Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York (2006)

*''New Turf'', curated by Evelyn Hankins, [[Fleming Museum of Art|Fleming Museum]], [[University of Vermont]], Burlington, Vermont (2005)<ref>https://www.uvm.edu/sites/default/files/Fleming-Museum-of-Art/Archive_PDF/2005_Fall.pdf</ref>

*''American Obsessive Drawing'', Völcker and Freunde, Berlin, Germany (2005)

*''Open House'', [[Brooklyn Museum]], Brooklyn (2004)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/627 | title=Brooklyn Museum }}</ref>

*''Works on Paper'', Völcker and Freunde, Berlin, Germany (2003)

*''The Brooklyn Rail, Selection I'', curated by [[Phong Bui]], Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, New York (2002)

* ''Inter-sex-tion'', DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts (2002)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dnagallery.com/catalog | title=Gallery }}</ref>

*''Pop Science'', g-module, Paris, France (2001)

*''New Prints'', [[Print Center New York|International Print Center]], New York (2001)

*''Compelled'', [[Hunterdon Art Museum]], Clinton, New Jersey (2001)

*''@'', P.P.O.W., New York (2000)

*''Yaddo Centennial'', [[Art in General]], New York, and the [[Hyde Collection]], Glens Falls, New York (2000)

*''Art on Paper'', [[Weatherspoon Art Museum]], [[University of North Carolina at Greensboro]], Greensboro, North Carolina(2000)

*''Haulin' Ass'', Post Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2000)

*''Fields'', P.P.O.W., New York (1999)

*''Working in Brooklyn: Current Undercurrent'', Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (1997)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/1054 | title=Brooklyn Museum }}</ref>

*''Redefinitions: A View from Brooklyn'', Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California (1997)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://137.151.141.102/repositories/5/archival_objects/29751 | title=Redefinitions: A View from Brooklyn, 1997-11-09 - 1997-12-11 | CSUF UA&SC and LDCOPH Finding Aids }}</ref>

*''Unconditionally Abstraction'', Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri (1996)

*''Jane Fine, [[Joanne Greenbaum]], John-Paul Philippe'', Arena, Brooklyn, New York (1995)

*''Paintings'', Petzel Gallery, New York (1994)

*''Pure Pop for Now People'', Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1993)

* ''Update 1992'', [[White Columns]], New York (1992)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://whitecolumns.org/exhibitions/update-1992/ | title=Update 1992 }}</ref>

*''Salon of the Mating Spiders'', Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, New York (1992)

*''High Density Abstraction'', Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York (1991)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://gallery98.org/2019/procter-art-center-bard-college-high-density-abstraction-allyson-grey-card-1991/ | title=Allyson Grey, High Density Abstraction, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Card, 1991 | date=3 December 2019 }}</ref>

*''Selections 42'', [[Drawing Center]], New York (1988)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/selections-42-eve-ascheim-amanda-barrow-jane-fine-nancy-friese-gary-goldberg-prudencio-irazabal-michael-kareken-tom-koken-kathleen-e-kucka-thomas-lyon-mills-michael-mulhern-kathryn-myers-carol-parlato-herman-steins-po-shu-wang-harvey | title=The Drawing Center: Selections 42: Eve Ascheim, Amanda Barrow, Jane Fine, Nancy Friese, Gary Goldberg, Prudencio Irazabal, Michael Kareken, Tom Koken, Kathleen E. Kucka, Thomas Lyon Mills, Michael Mulhern, Kathryn Myers, Carol Parlato, Herman Steins, Po Shu Wang, Harvey }}</ref>

==Collections==

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*Stuart Servetar, "Jane Fine", ''New York Press'', April 12, 1995

*Roberta Smith, "Shades of a Rebirth for Painting", ''New York Times'', June 18, 1993

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