Color Poured, Spirit Unleashed: Paul Jenkins Paints Beyond the Visible
A Kansas-born artist once poured paint onto canvases in Paris, chasing what he called the "phenomena"—moments that exist only in the act of painting. Paul Jenkins, often linked to Abstract Expressionism, left America in the 1950s to find new inspiration in Europe, eventually settling in Paris where his signature technique took shape: acrylic pigments flowing across flat canvases, guided by intuition and gravity.
Jenkins’s work stands apart for its spiritual ambition—he aimed to reveal what can’t be seen, not just what can be shown. His paintings, often titled with the word "Phenomena," invite viewers to experience color as an event, not an object. Now, with renewed attention from the Paul and Suzanne Jenkins Foundation and Timothy Taylor, his legacy is set to ripple through new exhibitions and audiences.
Jenkins’s vision reminds us: sometimes, the most powerful art is what happens in the space between intention and accident.
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