Janet Werner
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Known forvisual artist
Movementfictional portraits

Janet Werner (born 1959) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her work is known for its incisive and playful depictions of female figures, raising questions about the nature of the subject in painting.[1][2][3]

Biography

Janet Werner was born in 1959 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, where she teaches at Concordia University. Werner studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and, in 1985 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Later, she studied at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where she received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1987.[4] From 1987 to 1999 she taught painting and drawing at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.[5][6]

Work

Werner is known primarily for her large scale fictional portraits. She has been focusing on the genre since 1997. Werner explores themes of subjectivity and desire by producing composites of found images.[7] Recent paintings have explored painting's relationship to ideas of realism and the photograph. It can be said that the artist uses painting to deconstruct the ubiquity of the photographic image.[8]

Collections

Exhibitions

Werner exhibited at the Art Gallery of Guelph in 2019.[11]

Selected exhibitions

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Osterweil, Ara (December 2017). "Janet Werner". Artforum International. 56 (4): 206–207.
  2. ^ Kissick, John (2013). "Someone something nothing: Some thoughts on Janet Werner's recent paintings". Border Crossings. 32 (2): 46–53.
  3. ^ Balzer, David. "Janet Werner on What Makes a Good Painting, Artist Statements, Professionalization Pressures & More". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  4. ^ Laing, Carol; Werner, Janet; Southern Alberta Art Gallery; Owens Art Gallery (1997). Janet Werner: lucky. Lethbridge, Alta.: Southern Alberta Art Gallery. p. 34. ISBN 9780921613855. OCLC 45207344.
  5. ^ David, Elliot. "Paint Person". canadianart.ca. Canadian Art. Archived from the original on 2011-04-10.
  6. ^ "Salle de presse – " Janet Werner. Another Perfect Day " at Galerie de l'UQAM". salledepresse.uqam.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  7. ^ "Janet Werner – Parisian Laundry". www.parisianlaundry.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  8. ^ King, Nancy; Campbell, James D.; Sloan, Johanne. Janet Warner: Too Much Happiness Montreal: Parisian Laundry, 2008.
  9. ^ "Janet Werner | Collection Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec". collections.mnbaq.org. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  10. ^ "2010-104 Rubber Lips Janet Werner » WAG".
  11. ^ Barbara Brown: Résonances / Janet Werner : Lingua (in French). La Centrale. 1994. OCLC 948707814.

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