About

{"ops":[{"insert":"Janie Samuels was born in Canandaigua, NY. She received her BA from Bennington College, Vermont, after having returned from studying a year in Southern France. She returned to France to live and paint, moving to New York City a year later. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York.\nShe has had four solo exhibitions and several two-person exhibits, the most recent at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2021 .\n She has been in over 100 group exhibitions in the United States and Southern France. She is President of Arts PSWT, a Brooklyn artists cooperative.\n From 1989 to 1994, she designed and built the sets and co-produced several plays written by her husband, Evan Gubernick, for Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway venues.\nShe has managed the studios of such artists as Nancy Graves, Chuck Close, Valeska Soares and Janaina Tschäpe.\n In discussing her oeuvre, Samuels describes her work as being simultaneously political and personal, universal and intimate. Her subject, often inspired by political or social concerns, is derived from the media and personal photos. The work is intended to resonate on a more substantive and personal level. Technically, she is interested in how color, pattern, line and form break down abstractly and how she can manipulate them to create cohesive expressive qualities, such as rhythm and movement. She uses line and color so that the image works narratively and abstractly, and that the canvas has an intrinsic balance.\nThe photographic gel transfer and oil on panel and glass works are landscapes both urban and rural, an intimate portrait from every day life, and narrative images, both urban and social commentaries. The photographs are manipulated in Photoshop, printed and transferred to panels or glass, absorbed by the gel medium and the remaining paper stripped away. The panels are then painted.\nThe videos that have developed as an outgrowth from the paintings are a result of the overwhelming desire to have the paintings breathe, to create a sense of movement, and of life. This was originally the motivation for making a video of the progression of the painting from its beginning to completion, a kind of flip book. For the observer, the movie acts as an insight into the artist’s choices. It becomes experiential and offers the observer an opportunity to see the evolution of the work. The videos are intended to be mounted on the wall and to play alongside the hung painting.\nYou can view her videos at: vimeo.com/2986003\n You can contact her: "},{"attributes":{"link":"/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5e343c2d3f332b3b322d6d1e39333f3732703d3133"},"insert":"[email protected]"},{"insert":"\n"}]}