Jane Swavely

Swavely's oil paintings and soft pastels explore luminous color fields and gestural abstraction across monumental and intimate scales.

Why go

The exhibition pairs large-scale oil diptychs—some reaching 90 inches—with delicate pastel works on paper, showcasing Swavely's sustained investigation of color, light, and surface across two decades of practice.

What to expect

Oil paintings and soft pastels on paper, ranging from 25-inch intimate works to 90-inch diptychs, installed across Magenta Plains' Lower East Side gallery space.

Things to know

• Works include newly titled pieces: Strawberry Fields (2026, oil diptych, 90 x 90 in. overall), Silver Screen (2026, oil on canvas, 66 x 72 i
• Exhibition runs May 7–June 20, 2026 at Magenta Plains, 149 Canal Street, New York.
• Gallery hours: 11 AM–6 PM daily.
• Soft pastel works on Bugra paper measure up to 43 x 34 inches unframed.

Plan your visit

Gallery located at 149 Canal Street, Lower East Side. Open 11 AM–6 PM daily. Contact 917-388-2464 or visit magentaplains.com for details.