JANET SAWYER
Current Exhibition at Blue Mountain Gallery
March 3 – 27, 2021
Transit, Diptych, acrylic on canvas,
36"x 96", 2021
New paintings by Janet
Sawyer continue to convey “the joy that comes from intense involvement with
one’s surroundings” as Jonathan Goodman wrote of an earlier show for Art in
America.
Presented here are three black and white
works and two 36 x 96” diptychs using strong contrasts and abstract imagery
to evoke the progress of time marked by cycles of night and day and lunar
and planetary transits.
There are also abstract color-immersion
paintings and small (8 x 10”) works relating to these series.
In
Transit, above,
rhythms of colors and shapes move a planet or moon-like disc across the
conceptual time and space of the canvas.
Black and white striped areas suggest
motion while wavy intervals serve to advance the transition as clouds do in
traditional Chinese painting.
Janet Sawyer was born in
1942 in Raleigh North Carolina where her parents taught at the state school
for the blind. She was among the founding students of the NY Studio School,
and received a BA from SUNY Stony Brook and MFA from Brooklyn College. She
lives and works in Manhattan and Montauk, NY and has exhibited continuously
since l972 in NYC, Paris, Berlin, and various American venues.
Her most recent exhibition was in July
2020 at BCK Fine Arts Montauk.
Her work is in collections including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, West Publishing, Gibbons PC, Sterling Corp.,
Bryn Mawr College as well as private collections in the U.S. and Europe.
Reviews include the New York Times, Art In America, Art News, Where, NY
Magazine, Ms. Magazine and other publications.
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