Background
CV and Photos below
Jane Springwater received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on conceptual art. After working briefly as a graphic designer, she earned her JD from Washington University, and practiced law until 2019 when she left to work full time as an artist.
Through the use of repetitive detailed linework, Springwater explores the relationship between visual information that is both highly ordered and free flowing. Driven by an exacting process, she creates rule-based systems that generate images and patterns that reward examination at multiple scales. From close up, Springwater's finished work reveals her hand in the irregularity of the repeated marks. While the majority of Springwater's work consists of large-scale drawings, her etching experience since 2009 at the Crown Point Press summer workshops in San Francisco, California has largely influenced her practice. Her drawings and etchings continue to inform each other.
Springwater is represented by Municipal Bonds, and is having a duo exhibition, Invisible Forces, with Yvonne Mouser opening April 6, 2024 - May 25, 2024.
Springwater participated in the Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction in 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2023. In 2018, her work was included in the Material Matters group show at the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, CA and the Kala Artists Annual Exhibition in Berkeley, CA. In 2023, Springwater received first prize for her etching in the national Works on Paper competition at the LBI Foundation for Arts and Science in Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
Between 2019 and 2023, Springwater's work has also been exhibited in national and international juried competitions, and received numerous awards, including: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, England (2022); Sanchez Art Center (Regional), Pacifica, CA (2022); 12th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington (2022); Transitions, 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA (2021); Searching for Meaning, Gallery Route One, California Society of Printmakers, Juried Exhibition (2021); Ink & Clay 45, National Juried Competition, Cal Poly Pomona, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery. Honorable Mention Curator's Award (2021); Brand 48: Annual National Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA (2020); 10th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, People's Choice Award (2020); Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA (2019); Works On Paper, National Juried Competition, LBI Foundation for Arts and Science, Loveladies, NJ (2019); Ink & Clay 44, National Juried Competition, Cal Poly Pomona, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Honorable Mention Juror's Award (2019). Springwater is represented by Municipal Bonds.
Since 2014, Springwater has been working on five distinct series of large-scale (four by four feet) drawings: Decelerating; In Motion; Continuous Line; Between the Lines and Scenes From Above. Each series reflects a different set of assumptions and rules, but all of the works manifest the concept of automatic repetition of a committed line. This has resulted in more than 100 large-scale works in the varied series, a sampling of which are included in this website.
Springwater currently lives and works in San Francisco.
Instagram: @janespringwater
2024
Invisible Forces: Yvonne Mouser and Jane Springwater, Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA.
2023
Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction [June, 2023]
Works On Paper, National Juried Competition, LBI Foundation for Arts and Science, Loveladies, NJ [Juror: Marilyn Symmes, art curator with expertise in prints, drawings, and photographs, currently consultant curator for the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation]. First Place Juror’s Award.
2022
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, England.
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA [Juror: Jeff Nathanson, Curator for the Museum of Sonoma County]
12th Annual International Juried Exhibit, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA.
2021
Ink & Clay 45, The Art of Type, Sapphire Anniversary, National Juried Competition, Cal Poly Pomona, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery [Jurors: Kristine Schomaker, Curatorial Juror)]. Honorable Mention Curator’s Award.
Transitions, 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA [Jurors: Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator at the Oakland Museum of California, and Danielle Fox, Principal at Slate Gallery, Oakland CA]
Searching For Meaning, Gallery Route One, California Society of Printmakers, Juried Exhibition.
2020
Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction
Brand 48: Annual National Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA
10th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA [Juror: Amanda Donnan, Curator at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA] People’s Choice Award
2019
National Juried Competition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA [Juror: Amy Owens, Curator at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, CA]
Works On Paper, National Juried Competition, LBI Foundation for Arts and Science, Loveladies, NJ [Juror: Dr. Louis Marchesano, Senior Curator of Drawing, Prints, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art]
Ink & Clay 44, National Juried Competition, Cal Poly Pomona, W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery [Jurors: Kimiko Miyoshi, Susan Elizalde-Henson, and Juri Koll]. Honorable Mention Juror’s Award
2018
Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction
Material Matters, Group Show, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Kala Artists' Annual Exhibition
2017
Kala Artist Residency
Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Auction
2009 - 2019, 2021-2023 Crown Point Press, Summer Workshops
Opening reception at Seager Gray Gallery, 2018
Working on a large 6 ft x 8 ft drawing (2023)