1.0Rollins Museum of Arthttps://blogs.rollins.edu/rmaadminhttps://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/author/admin/Work of the Week: Marcus Jansen Plot #2rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="DzLKjJI5cj"><a href="https://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/2022/06/27/marcus-jansen-plot-2/">Work of the Week: Artist Marcus Jansen, “Plot #2”</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/2022/06/27/marcus-jansen-plot-2/embed/#?secret=DzLKjJI5cj" width="600" height="338" title="“Work of the Week: Artist Marcus Jansen, “Plot #2”” — Rollins Museum of Art" data-secret="DzLKjJI5cj" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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http://blogs.rollins.edu/rma/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/jansen-marcus-plot-2.jpeg561700The work in the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Plot #2, 2018, is resonant and haunting in its image and subject. A brick red typewriter, that feels partially stenciled onto a mustard yellow ground, is both the subject of the painting, and the set for another subtle narrative landscape that unfolds within the picture plane. Above the typewriter hangs a broken set of blinds, with the sketch of a hanging light bulb in the background. The offset blinds and bulb signify a space that has been violated, or that could be at any moment; and the image becomes more unsettling as one observes the minute figure that often populatesJansen’s paintings, as he traverses the space created in the lower left corner of the typewriter.The threatening mood of the painting alludes to histories of surveillance and power, and in amore reductive image, contains themes that are the foundation for Jansen’s practice.