| Janet Strayer |
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I was lucky to be raised and educated in New York City after immigrating as a child from Germany. I have traveled and worked most of my life: in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the MidEast, Southeast Asia. And I have been influenced by these shifting geographies of earth, sea and mind.
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| About the Artist |
My artwork is driven by life around and within, its celebration and its grief, by history and moment, by love of art, literature, and our impossible humanity. My work deals with the inner and outer realities of being human and alive in a living and changing world.I choose to work in different styles to express moments of memory and mood, anticipation and imagination. Subjective and objective content mix in my works. My methods employ traditional drawing, etching and painting techniques as well mixed media and digital (computer) artwork. My works range from whimsical to probing. |
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Angel of Limitations
2007 acrylics on canvas 91 x 46 cm |
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no use leaving it up to the angels: they, too, arel limited in face of the enduring capacity of humans to do harm |
Gotta Go
2006 mixed media 92x92 and 35x42 cm. |
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mulitple canvases and movable 3-D materials (boots, dolls, beads) depict a journey from tangible to intangible geographies of place and time |
Woman in Wimple
2006 oils on canvas 36 x 43 cm |
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based on a northern renaissance work by Robert Campin, this is an ode to quiet devotion... not to a religion in my view, but to a contemplative life |
Fishtales
2007 painted on a digital tablet and printed by the artist on archival papers in a limited edition 35x 45 cm. or customized |
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Transmigration, transmutation is the topic. We are creatures all, and sometimes humor enters in. This is an original digital work, printed by the artist on archival paper in a limited edition and available in custom sizes. |
Perishable Goods
2006 mixed media painted on digital tablet 28 x 46 cm. |
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a comment on commercial interests' packaging of emergent and perishable "commodities" of life and art |
Howdy
2007 acrylics on canvas 76 x 100 cm. |
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the permeable boundaries of objects of desire, imagination, and gaze |
The Promise
2007 acrylics on canvas 61 x 76 cm. |
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hope is not held in simple innocence |
Ask Columbina
2007 acrylics on canvas 51 x 70 |
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it is sometimes hard to discern who owns what and where responsibility lies |
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| Education and biography |
I have been a university professor and researcher in developmental psychology by profession, an artist by love and training, and an explorer and humanist by inclination. I graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University way back, majoring in history with a minor in art history. I got a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Latin America (thank you, America), started grad school in history, switched to psychology, left for Canada where I got a PhD and became a full professor, left the university, studied at ateliers and art schools, and became an artist. I've studied and graduated from programs in drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, the Advanced Institute of Capilano, the Academy of Realist Art Toronto, the Gage Academy in Seattle ,and at the Instituto Allende and Bellas Artes in Mexico.
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| Future shows |
| Past and upcoming exhibitions include the Burnaby Art Museum, Enigma, Grand Forks Art Gallery Fifth Avenue Cinema,Seymour Art Gallery, and Simon Fraser Gallery. |
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Website: www.janetstrayerart.com |
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