Unique, powerful and worthy of attention, Jens Rossen’s new collection of paintings, represented by Empress Gallery of San Diego, California, portray the dichotomies and polarities experienced by a very creative human being in a series of works that both challenge and satisfy. With a contemporary feel rooted in traditional painterly styles employing an occasional hi-tech element, Rossen’s staccato brush application of paint to canvas gives his images classic blocks of richly colored texture that are expressive and charged with emotion. They emerge as strong coherent statements that serve his quest to, as he says, “make sense out of this life through these paintings.”