Quiet Structures

In Quiet Structures, Maine-based painter Jean Jack presents a body of oil paintings that honor the enduring presence of rural American architecture. Through iconic depictions of barns, farmhouses, cottages, and coastal buildings, Jack explores the emotional weight carried by simple structures set within open, pared-down landscapes. Blending abstraction and realism, her paintings emphasize form, shadow, and spatial relationships, allowing each building to stand as both a physical place and a vessel for memory, solitude, and reflection.

Working intuitively in oil on canvas and panel, Jack often reimagines real-world scenes—adjusting scale, shifting backgrounds, or introducing water and sky—to heighten emotional resonance. Whether depicting weathered lobster barns along the Maine coast or solitary farm buildings inland, her work captures a profound sense of place rooted in stillness and restraint. Collected nationally and shaped by decades of observation across America, Quiet Structures reflects Jack’s ongoing meditation on permanence, isolation, and the quiet dignity of the built landscape.