After the Flood
JANE ABRAMS
After the Flood
JANE ABRAMS
SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 12, 2025
Jane Abrams
Jane Abrams had rightfully expected 2024 to be a banner year. In celebration of her 1985-86 participation in the Roswell Artist in Residency (RAiR) program, the Roswell Museum had opened Jane Abrams: Fire on the Water, a major retrospective featuring thirty-eight of her works spanning from 1968 to 2022, including many of her largest and most significant paintings. The well-reviewed show was going well, until the night of October 19, 2024, when the city of Roswell received six month’s worth of rainfall within just a few hours. The Spring River, which runs alongside the museum, breached its banks and flooded the museum, with flood waters rising to nearly six feet in some rooms. Jane’s show, along with the rest of the museum collection, was inundated by water and mud. While eleven of her major works had to be sent to The Conservation Center in Chicago to address the damages caused by the invasive waters, the remaining works were unharmed.
As might be expected, the impact on Abrams was significant, both emotionally and creatively. Still, Jane has always been an extraordinarily tenacious woman.
After the Flood is Jane’s phoenix song - her notice to the world that she, and her art, are still here and still relevant. This show will not only feature the lush botanical paintings that have been at the core of her artwork since the mid1980’s, but also her exquisite polychrome wood relief carvings as well as rare examples from her early years as a printmaker.
SNARE FOR WILD HORNS
Jane Abrams Color intaglio on 100% rag paper
Plate size: 18” x 22”
Framed: 26.67” x 31.25”
1983-1984 SOLD
ELIJAH’S FISH TANGLE
Jane Abrams Oil on Linen 64” x 79”
$25,000 2013
UNCERTAIN BARRIERS
Jane Abrams Color intaglio on 100% rag paper
Plate size: 12” x 14”
Framed: 22.67” x 25.67”
1982
$1,650
SILVERY POND
Jane Abrams Oil on linen
52” x 58”, 2006
$15,000
FUMBLING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
Jane Abrams Color intaglio on 100% rag paper
Plate size: 15” x 18”
Framed: 24.67” x 28.67”
1983
$1,800
