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Jennifer Cadoff works in ink on heavy white watercolor paper, producing abstract drawings that range in size from miniature (3 inches) to monumental (6 feet or more). Built with painstaking slowness, using a limited array of marks (lines, dots, tiny circles, scribbling) the drawings become abstract fields that explore the tension between order and disorder, micro and macro, density and vacancy, control and disarray. Her work has been described as hallucinatory and disorienting at one end of the spectrum, and meditative and contemplative on the other. The drawings are all done freehand, testing the limits of the artist’s concentration, revealing every wobble and hesitation, yet maintaining a semblance of control through organizational principles like columns, grids, and squares. Although she had been an artist for as long as she can remember, Jennifer, after a career in journalism, returned to school to earn a BFA. Her work has been exhibited in numerous regional and national shows across the Northeastern United States, including invitations to “America Through Artists’ Eyes” at the New Jersey State Museum, and “Jersey Women Artists Now: Contemporary Visions” at Montclair University in New Jersey. She currently lives and works in Connecticut, where her work has been shown in Art of the Northeast at Silvermine Galleries, and Nor’Easter at the New Britain Museum of American art.