Janet Werner
Sticky Pictures
Sticky Pictures examines and celebrates the evolving work of Montreal-based artist Janet Werner. In her paintings, Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurative explorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collage-like composite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty, gender, psychology and emotion. Werner's painterly operations are both unsettling and seductive, revealing the conditions of perception and looking as passageways to understanding the intensity of the world at hand. Werner's unique combination of abstraction, fictional portraiture, and the rich history of painting are explored in Sticky Pictures through texts by art and media historians, as well as an interview with the artist. Janet Werner’s work has been featured in international solo exhibitions from New York to Los Angeles and as far away as Cape Town. Her work was included in the Prague Biennale in 2003 and is featured in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal, The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the University of Lethbridge, Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco, and numerous private and corporate collections. Werner lives and works in Montreal.
FORTHCOMING SOLO SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY: Launching Sept. 10, 2022 at Arsenal Contemporary NY in Tribeca.EXHIBITIONS: Werner has had many solo exhibitions, including at Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal; Art Gallery of Guelph; Parisian Laundry, Montreal; Esker Foundation, Calgary; Ottawa Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, and many others. She has been in a large number of group exhibitions as well. INTERNATIONAL REACH: Born in Winnipeg; studied at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore; received her MFA at Yale; shown around the world; currently residing in Montreal ? Werner's monograph will have a wide audience in multiple markets.PORTRAITURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELFIE: Werner's work offers playful commentary on self-portraiture, the ubiquity of the photographic image in the digital era, and subjectivity. Janet Werner belongs to a generation of artists that includes George Condo, Luc Tuymans, Karen Kilimnik, Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin, and that, following the late 1990s' critical reassessment of figurative painting, would bring new impetus to the portrait genre. There is a renewed interest in portraiture among young painters today,
| Autor: | Baldissera, Lisa Feldman Melissa E. LeTourneux, Francois Osterweil Ara |
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| ISBN: | 9781773272023 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.12.2022 |
| Untertitel: | Sticky Pictures |
| Schlagworte: | ART / Canadian ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) ART / Women Artists Individual artists, art monographs Painting & paintings Paintings and painting |
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