Jade Pergl is a painter who lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. She holds a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Her work emerges from concepts of femininity, magic, and imagination, which become intertwined with personal narratives and emotions. Pergl’s work relies on the conceptual application of color and form, focusing on hyper-feminine colors and theuse of flat negative space.

"This interference between surface and support activates the imagery in the work. Her inked flora flourishes within the artificial confines of those stretcher bar gardens. Pergl’s vining imagery seems to recognize the architecture under and around it, the marks hewing and hovering around to the supports like stalks growing toward the sun. The work Delicate Reminders is somewhat more all-over than others in the show, with the linework of petals and seedpods interweaving more evenly across the painting’s sheer surface. And what a surface it is: a soft and delicate melding of pigment and woven fiber, all in the service of a dazzling mazelike composition of surging organic matter. The transparency of the surface allows it, like the others in the show, to function independently from near and far. From afar they read almost as ghostly transparent monochromes leaning toward critique. On close inspection, however, the dense networks of organically inspired linework conflicts with that distant read, creating a third possibility."

Shane McAdams