Holden Luntz Gallery - 15.03.2022

Jan Groover’s Untitled (FS 41.2)

Jan Groover is best remembered as one of the first proponents of both painterly color photography and table top constructions. She was born in 1943 in Plainsfield, New Jersey and died in 2012 in Montpon-Menesterol, France. Initially having trained in painting in the 1960’s, Jan Groover turned to photography in the 70’s and, although she experimented with different subject matters, she is best remembered for her formal still-lifes. Her experience as a painter seemed to influence and permeate throughout her still-life photography as she referenced some of the French and Italian painters such as Paul Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and Giorgio Morandi. Morandi is perhaps the most relevant comparison with his continued use of basic shapes and forms that were repeated through variations.