Amorelle Jacox, They turn into days
10.18 – 11.29.2025
“Mother time bore quantum seeds
What happens to the seeds
They turn into days.“
Amorelle Jacox
“Painting has always been a place for me to engage with this question I have of how separate I am from the world around me. Where do I begin? Where do I end? In space? In time?” Rather than offering definitive answers, Amorelle Jacox’s (b. 1994) paintings multiply angles of approach to probe these fundamental questions more deeply. The artist favors a metaphorical treatment that owes much to poetry and its relationship to the ineffable.
Situated at the crossroads of abstraction and figuration, her poetic language draws as much from color field painting as from transcendentalism, symbolism, or surrealism. Areas of colors, gradients, and successive layers of color compose dense and deep spaces in which Jacox suspends obsessive forms — ellipses, triangles, hourglasses, tables, black holes, levitating bodies. These are not symbols in the strict sense, but open, intuitive metaphors, imbued with personal charge. “Simple shapes have a huge influence on the ways in which the work changes. I am not entirely sure how new forms come into the work, often they come in quietly through a drawing or a small painting; and when they catch I become a bit obsessed with painting the form over and over, as well as finding it involved in my day-to-day life.”
These figurative and spatial elements shift gradually, as the artist discovers new facets of her research. She describes the evolution of her work between 2022 and 2025, during which the works gathered in They turn into days were created: “it seems that over the past few years the work has moved from pairing the interior body with the external world, to placing the even more miniscule elements such as particles/dust (cells) with broader conceptions of space/time and where the limits of quantification butt up against our lived experience of them. With this figurative shift in the work, a spatial shift also arrived. Where the space was pure-atmospheric color fields before, there are now margins and nooks and edges. All forms still exist on the same plane, the only perspectival quality in the work is that of time – the build up of very thin layers of paint that reveal themselves in the edges (I think of these as the trenches of time).”
Abraham & Wolff is pleased to present Amorelle Jacox’s work in collaboration with Management, New York. They turn into days brings together canvases and works on paper created in New York in 2022 and 2025, and in 2025 in Alvémont, Normandy, at the artists’ residency of Galerie Jocelyn Wolff.
Jacox holds an MFA from Hunter College (2022). Recent exhibitions include Light Catcher, Time Keeper at 12.26, Los Angeles (2025), Gravity was an entity at Management, New York (2024), An Infinite Sunder at Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2023), and Two projections of time, Baseltor Kiosk, Solothurn, Switzerland (2022). She recently completed a residency with Wolf Hill Arts, Chappaqua, NY (2023). Jacox was a recipient of the Marjorie Strider Foundation Grant (2022). Her works and writing have been published in Art Maze (2023) and Yale School of Divinity’s LETTERS journal (2019).