The Time It Takes to Look: Jaqueline Cedar’s Art of the Almost Seen

To read my exhibition review of Jaqueline Cedar’s Slide in Art Spiel,  click here: The Time It Takes to Look: Jaqueline Cedar’s Art of the Almost Seen

By Stephen Wozniak

Slide
June 6-July 19, 2025

Andrew Rafacz
1749 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
www.andrewrafacz.com

EXCERPT

At Andrew Rafacz, Jaqueline Cedar’s Slide delivers small paintings with big temporal ambition. In her first Chicago solo show, the artist captures time not as a line but a loop—blurred, fragmented, and thick with atmosphere. Figures flicker in and out of clarity; gestures repeat like memories misfiring. The intimacy of scale invites close-contact peering, while layered forms resist quick comprehension. It’s a slow burn of perceptual dissonance, pitched somewhere between deep dreaming and déjà vu. In many ways, Cedar paints observation itself—its rhythms, glitches, and gaps—inviting us to dwell in the space between glancing and seeing.