Collection: Jes Moran - Seam Shift

In Seam Shift, I explore how construction changes the language of painting. Cutting disrupts the painted surface, while sewing it back together rebuilds it through seams and shapes. This process shifts gesture, color, and composition through physical reconstruction, creating quilted and geometric forms.

The work is built through repetition, deconstruction, and repair. Painting becomes a material that is continually transformed rather than preserved as a seamless surface. The finished works hold onto the evidence of making, memories of blue-collar workers, the American west landscape and the countless people who used their hands to build a life for their families. I’m drawn to the care and resilience embedded in handmade objects and repaired materials. Through cutting and reconstruction, the work reflects those histories of effort, persistence, and labor.