Visual Integrity and a Feminist Sensibility in an Atemporal Age
Kjaer is clearly a Modernist, since most of her work shows clear signs of influence from the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s, the Neo-Expressionists of the 1980s, and work from the German school of the last several decades. But she is a Modernist in a way that never ignores the fact that we live in an atemporal world, where present currents and past styles have collapsed into a timeless stew, sabotaging stylistic periodization. Her art clearly asserts the notion that if we live in an atemporal age, then it is time to tap the wealth of styles available, and mold them into a unique language that addresses both important aesthetic and social issues.