February 7 – 26, 1966
Art Gallery, Eugenia Fuller Atwood Library
1966 BEAVER NEWS
“Alumna’s Work Vibrant in Color, Design” by Susan Wood
An inspiring and encouraging answer to the inevitable question of what happens to Beaver art students upon graduation – whether they are ever able to establish themselves successfully in their highly competitive field – is given in the library gallery’s current exhibition. The paintings and woodcuts of Jane Geayer are the accomplished results of talent, ambition, and hard work.
Miss Geayer’s imagery is primarily flat and decorative, displaying a sound sense of design, her major while at Beaver. The influence of Miss Francksen, her former professor, is evident, especially in the precise little woodcut “Wondering.” It is, however, in the boat and shore subjects with which she is most familiar that her best work emerges, combining her knowledge of design elements with her personal predilection for pattern.
Her laconic and forceful forms are well integrated. “Rooftops” and “Les Hulottes,” both of a humorous vein, show her depiction of the essence of shapes in the simplest possible terms and building up with them a compact composition. “Festival,” a delicate woodcut displaying her familiarity with architectural forms, is a fine example of this ability to creatively transform her thorough knowledge of the visible world and to depict it in a work of art.
Although this is Beaver’s first one woman showing of any of its graduates’ work, Miss Geayer (class of ’56) has had one exclusive show and participated in group exhibitions.
Presently teaching, she has done interiors as well as murals (a sketch for one is in the show) and has work in private collections. This is the art of an amazing young woman, one of the best shows Beaver has had, and definitely one not to be missed.
