Jane Corrigan
Swing (the dream), 2025
Oil on canvas
45 x 38 in
114.3 x 96.5 cm
114.3 x 96.5 cm
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In Swing (the dream), Jane Corrigan captures a young girl suspended in flight—part memory, part dream. Below her, a second figure sleeps, suggesting that the airborne scene unfolds within the...
In Swing (the dream), Jane Corrigan captures a young girl suspended in flight—part memory, part dream. Below her, a second figure sleeps, suggesting that the airborne scene unfolds within the sleeper’s imagination. Painted in Corrigan’s signature, thick impasto, the image shimmers between the physical and the psychological, evoking the restless energy of adolescence and the longing to escape gravity—emotional or otherwise. Across her practice, Corrigan paints moments where innocence and anxiety intertwine. Here, she channels Dalí’s dream logic not through spectacle, but through the tender surrealism of a mind in motion.
