Inspired by the history of jazz, Jennie C. Jones connects geometric abstraction and minimalism with African American music history. She creates paintings, installations, and sculptures inspired by the legacies of Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Alvin Singleton, among others. In her paintings and sculptures, Jones uses strategies drawn from conceptual art to address what she refers to as the “physical residue of music”—tapes, cables, cassettes, musical scores, and other materials. In her paintings she uses a reduced palette of colors and graphic marks, resulting in abstract compositions that are quiet and intimate, and evoke the act of listening.   Jones’s nearly monochromatic paintings embody how the African American avant-garde influenced the development of the modern period in the United States. Constant Structure consists of a series of abstract panels rendered in orange-red and gray, and arranged in a linear sequence close to the floor. The title is a jazz term meaning a chord progression composed of three or more chords with the same type of quality. In this sense, the work could be read linearly like a language or a musical composition. Each panel becomes a music interval, seducing the viewer with color, geometries, and form.