Painting is Sculpture
By stretching my own canvases for some years and pushing the possibilities of different shapes and forms, I learned a lot. I got the idea of building a relief stretcher frame in order to create a 3D canvas. It is amazing to observe the plays of light and shadows together and its effect on each other. For this series, I challenged myself to add color gradients on various surfaces to allow the lights and shadows effectuate the painting and become its own. As such, the painting pops as a sculpture from the wall.
![Red Melted Circle, 2019](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/100x100x15-Red-Melted-Circle-IG2-2019-scaled.jpg)
Red Melted Circle, 2019
acrylic on relief canvas, 100 x 100 x 15 cm
![](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/100x100x15-Red-Melted-Circle-2019-scaled.jpg)
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![](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/115-x-180-cm-Morphing-Heat-2020-3.jpg)
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![Morphing Heat, 2020](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/115-x-180-cm-Morphing-Heat-2020.jpg)
Morphing Heat, 2020
acrylic on relief canvas, 115 x 180 cm
![Violet Void, 2021](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/113-x-203-x-21-cm-Violet-Void-2021.jpg)
Violet Void, 2021
acrylic on relief canvas, 113 x 203x 21 cm
![](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/113-x-203-x-21-cm-Violet-Void-2021-3.jpg)
![](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/100-x-70-x-21-cm-Glowing-Ellipse-622-2023-2-of-3-scaled.jpg)
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![Glowing Ellipse 622, 2023](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/100-x-70-x-21-cm-Glowing-Ellipse-622-2023-1-of-3-scaled.jpg)
Glowing Ellipse 622, 2023
acrylic on relief canvas, 100 x 70 x 21 cm
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Red Void Diptich, 2021
acrylic on 2 relief canvases, 100 x 225 x 21 cm
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Featured works
Jilly Dawn Jellyfish
![flip image](https://cms.jankalab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Jilly-Dawn-Jellyfish-423-2023-thumb-300x300.jpg)
Melted Sahara Dawn
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Melted Sunset
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Violet Void
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Burning Wave 522
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