Chase Edwards Contemporary announced the opening of an upcoming exhibition featuring Janet Jennings’ new body of work. Coastal Disturbances opens September 26th from 6-9 pm and will be on display at Chase Edwards Contemporary, Bridgehampton, and online at chasedwardsgallery.com until October 12th, 2020.

A portion of the exhibition's proceeds will go towards Drawdown East End, a grassroots group focused on local solutions to reverse global warming. Mary Morgan, the group's co-founder, explained how the organization is "inspired by Project Drawdown,” which is both a best-selling science-based book of climate solutions and a leading international research project. Drawdown East End will again organize a Film Forum Fun day-long event at Southampton Arts Center January 23, 2021.

In her work, Janet Jennings explores the relationship between experience, memory, and the balance between the two. It stands to reason that when she stepped back from her newest body of work, Coastal Disturbances, the artist saw subconscious elements of her own experiences and memories underpinned in the brushwork. Since Janet Jennings’ introduction to the work of British scientist James Lovelock in 1980, climate change has simmered in the back of the artist’s mind. James Lovelock, best known for his Gaia theory, which postulates that the Earth functions on a self-regulating system, took hold of Ms. Jennings. Over the years, it facilitated an understanding of global warming’s urgent exigencies. In horizons and landscapes, pervading mist creeps in and across Ms. Jennings’ canvases. In an understated ode to the idea of self-regulation, her canvas ebbs and flows with natural light that salutes the earth’s magnificence while warning the viewer just how precious and fleeting the view is. After noticing how her paintings reflect and refract our experience and memory, specifically, of the earth, Janet Jennings’ mindset changed. The artist looked ahead to making a difference.