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Artist Statement:
We live at a time when visual
data from the sciences -
microbiology, physics, and
space science - are among the
most beautiful and compelling
images we encounter. Our
post-modernist perspective has
moved from an aesthetic that
regards portraiture,
landscape, and still life as
iconic representations of the
true and the beautiful, to the
view that the traces of
sub-atomic particles and
photographs of distant
galaxies may have more to tell
us about beauty, truth and our
place in the universe.
Positioned, as we are, between
the very big and the very
small, something must bring us
back to the human scale, and I
have chosen the humble button.
These little circular forms
(and their painted facsimiles)
suggest to me individual units
of being or matter, like motes
in the sunlight. They
represent, both formally and
symbolically, all the
different orders of magnitude,
from sub-atomic particles
through suns and galaxies. It
is my intention that as
viewers explore these works,
they cast themselves gently
into space-time and drift in a
place where there is no up and
down or falling and rising,
but only floating as one
element in the field.
The work in this exhibit is
about ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
ON THE PLANET, Nagoya Citizens
Gallery at Yada, Nagoya,
Japan, January 27 – February
7, 2010
Mille Cadeaux, Maison Kasini,
Montreal, Canada, December
2010-January, 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Flynndog, Burlington, VT,
Afterward, (2-person with
Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert; Van
Fleet: All Aboard) October,
2010
Claire’s, Hardwick, VT,
Priests, ...
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Janet Van Fleet Biography:
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Janet Van Fleet is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Vermont, where she produces two distinct bodies of work. Her freestanding figurative works, known as Curious Lifeforms, are assembled with wood, wire, and found objects. She also creates wall-hung works called Circular Statements using buttons and other disks in wire grids that have been described as “the architecture of spacetime.”
Van Fleet grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, then went on to earn a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Education. She is a founder of Studio Place Arts (SPA), a three-story community center for the visual arts in Barre, Vermont, where her studio is located. She has been a reviewer for Art New England, and is co-publisher of Vermont Art Zine, an online state-wide journal devoted to the visual arts in Vermont. The Vermont Council on the Arts awarded her grants in 1996 and 2005 for the creation of three large installations, and she was chosen in 2008 to create the central gateway exhibit in the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative’s Smart Art: Exploring Science and Art, which is touring to museums in Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and Quebec.
During January of 2010 she traveled to Nagoya, Japan to create a 36-foot long wall installation in her Circular Statements body of work in recognition of 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Later, in September of that year, she co-curated an exhibit called On the Planet in three Vermont venues that combined the work of Japanese and American artists. |
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