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“Lines move and dance, colors sit and sing. In the abstract paintings of 2013-2014, I was searching for a non-representational pictorial language that would unite the directional energy of line with the resonating stasis of area/field/color. In a painting like Slow Time Turn, the strategy was to use a motif derived from the brush stroke itself. By using brushes and tools of varying widths, lines could become bands that were essentially moving fields. As these lines and bands would collide and intertwine, they would create a dynamic compositional structure. In Slow Time Turn, the forces interact in the center in a circular rotation, reminiscent of a clock. The rotation resonates through the rest of the composition, slowly churning the flow of existence”. Robert Jessup, March 2025 Born in Moscow, Idaho, and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup earned a BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. From 1983 to 1986, Jessup was an Assistant Professor of Painting at Cornell University before relocating to the University of North Texas where he taught for 25 years. His work has been exhibited extensively since 1981 and is in numerous private and public collections including the metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of North Texas where he taught painting in the College of Visual Arts and Design from 1991 to 2018. From 2019 to 2023, Robert Jessup and his wife, Faith Scott Jessup, relocated to Whidbey Island, Washington and currently live and work in Denton, Texas.