Jess Allen: Suspending Time presents new paintings centered on shadow, perception, and psychological interiority. Five canvases track a female silhouette shifting subtly as sunlight moves across her form, collapsing figure and environment into overlapping shapes — the instantaneous nature of photography extended through slow, deliberate painting. Thinking Man transposes Rodin's idea of thought extending through every muscle onto twelve shadowed male figures displayed as a grid, each a self-contained interior glimpsed from a distance. Elsewhere, women recline in bands of sunlight and shade, caught in recursive cycles of thought while a male shadow passes ambiguously across the scene. Throughout, what appears fixed is already gone.
