‘Serious Play’ on display through the end of Fall 2025

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Serious Play, a solo exhibit featuring the works of Jane Westrick, will be on display in the Leo Castelli Gallery through the end of Fall 2025.

Westrick is an artist based in New Jersey. She received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy. Her paintings have been featured in New American Paintings, and exhibited nationally. Since 2014, she has taught undergraduate courses at Mason Gross School of the Arts, including Painting, Drawing and Visual Thinking.

‘Serious play’ is a series of high-chroma paintings on paper. The paintings create a vibrant and contemporary look at ballroom dancing, using gestural movement and a highly saturated color palette. Painted in Flashe and acrylic, and drawn into with pastels and crayons, her works on paper sit between painting and drawing. The figurative compositions are tense within their borders, yet allow for moments of slippage and release, mirroring the feeling encapsulated within the work.

A closing reception will be held Nov. 13, with a wine and cheese reception from 4-6 p.m. in the John S. Burd Center for Performing Arts and an artist talk in the Disque Lecture Hall promptly at 5 p.m.