New paintings by New York artist Jane Fine are currently on view this month with Pierogi in Leipzig, Germany, in her show “Skirmish.” Fine has continued an investigation into armed conflict with scenes of tanks, barbed wire and trenches, created from pools of acrylic paint and marker. Each painting exists between figuration and abstraction and embodies an equal obscurity between painting and drawing, in a figure and ground relation. The absurdity found within the painting is an apparent mirroring of the U.S. occupation in Iraq, offering commentary and visual relief from the bombardment of the typical images of war that are received through news stations. Fine is a graduate of Harvard University, and she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Fine is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. The artist has also completed residencies with Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York, and Cite Internationale des Artes in Paris.