Janet Werner
{{short description|Canadian artist}}
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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.{{Cite journal|last=Osterweil|first=Ara|date=December 2017|title=Janet Werner|journal=Artforum International|volume=56|issue=4|pages=206–207}}{{Cite journal|last=Kissick|first=John|date=2013|title=Someone something nothing: Some thoughts on Janet Werner's recent paintings|journal=Border Crossings|volume=32|issue=2|pages=46–53}}{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/interviews/janet-werner-interview/|title=Janet Werner on What Makes a Good Painting, Artist Statements, Professionalization Pressures & More|last=Balzer|first=David|website=Canadian Art|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-12}}
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.{{Cite book|title=Janet Werner: lucky|last1=Laing|first1=Carol|last2=Werner|first2=Janet|last3=Southern Alberta Art Gallery|last4=Owens Art Gallery|date=1997|publisher=Southern Alberta Art Gallery|isbn=9780921613855|location=Lethbridge, Alta.|pages=34|language=en|oclc=45207344}} From 1987 to 1999 she taught painting and drawing at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
{{cite web |last1=David |first1=Elliot |title=Paint Person |url=http://www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2002/11/03/57/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410215931/http://www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2002/11/03/57/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-04-10 |website=canadianart.ca |publisher=Canadian Art}}{{Cite web|url=http://salledepresse.uqam.ca/communiques-de-presse-2013/3962-l-janet-werner-another-perfect-day-r-at-galerie-de-luqam.html|title=Salle de presse – " Janet Werner. Another Perfect Day " at Galerie de l'UQAM|website=salledepresse.uqam.ca|access-date=2016-03-14|archive-date=2017-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924135823/http://salledepresse.uqam.ca/communiques-de-presse-2013/3962-l-janet-werner-another-perfect-day-r-at-galerie-de-luqam.html|url-status=dead}}
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.{{Cite web|title = Janet Werner – Parisian Laundry|url = http://www.parisianlaundry.com/en/artists/janetwerner/bio/|website = www.parisianlaundry.com|access-date = 2015-12-02}} 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.King, Nancy; Campbell, James D.; Sloan, Johanne. Janet Warner: Too Much Happiness Montreal: Parisian Laundry, 2008.
Collections
- Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec{{Cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600009860|title=Janet Werner {{!}} Collection Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec|website=collections.mnbaq.org|access-date=14 July 2019}}
- Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal
- Mackenzie Art Gallery
- Regina Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
- Remai Modern (Formerly, Mendel Art Gallery), Saskatoon
- Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
- Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville
- Winnipeg Art Gallery{{Cite web | url=https://wag.ca/art/collections/artwork/2010-104-rubber-lips-janet-werner/?from=art-search | title=2010-104 Rubber Lips Janet Werner » WAG | access-date=2020-05-10 | archive-date=2021-02-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204191547/https://wag.ca/art/collections/artwork/2010-104-rubber-lips-janet-werner/?from=art-search | url-status=dead }}
- Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Exhibitions
Werner exhibited at the Art Gallery of Guelph in 2019.{{cite web |title=Janet Werner: What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf? |url=http://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibitions-detail/janet-werner-what-time-is-it-mr-wolf/ |website=Art Gallery of Guelph |access-date=23 March 2019}}
=Selected exhibitions=
- 1989, Paintings, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- 1989 Rehearsing the World, Plug In Inc, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- 1990. 1990 Paintings, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
- 1991 Reflections on Language and the Appearance of Things, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- 1991 Reflections on Language and the Appearance of Things, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
- 1992 Reflections on Language and the Appearance of Things, Dunlop art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
- 1994 Lingua, la Central, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec.{{Cite book|url=http://worldcat.org/search?q=on:CAXTE+http://e-artexte.ca/cgi/oai2+DCG_ENTIRE_REPOSITORY+CNTCOLL|title=Barbara Brown: Résonances / Janet Werner : Lingua|date=1994|publisher=La Centrale|language=fr|oclc=948707814}}
- 1995 Scat, Galerie Axe NEO 7, Hull, Quebec.
- 1995 figures and fields, Sir Wilfred Grenfell Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
- 1995, Janet Werner / Katherine Sellars* Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1996, Slow Pictures, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto.
- 1997, Listen, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- 1997, Trance *, Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (catalogue).
- 1997, Lucky, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta (catalogue)
- 1998, Lucky, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick.
- 1998, trust, Optica, Montreal, Quebec.
- 1999, Janet Werner, Paul kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
- 1999, Janet Werner, Tableau Vivant Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
- 1999, trust, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario.
- 1999, Janet Werner, Tableau Vivant Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
- 1999, Janet Werner, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
- 2018, The Splits, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, California
- 2023, Call Me When You Start Wearing Red, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, California
Bibliography
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner: reflections on language and the appearance of things|last1=Werner|first1=Janet|last2=Grenville|first2=Bruce|last3=Mendel Art Gallery|date=1991|publisher=Mendel Art Gallery|isbn=9780919863668|location=Saskatoon|language=en|oclc=62913529}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner : lucky|first=Carol|last=Laing|date=1997|publisher=Southern Alberta Art Gallery|others=Werner, Janet, 1959-, Southern Alberta Art Gallery., Owens Art Gallery.|isbn=0921613857|location=Lethbridge, Alta.|oclc=45207344}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner|last1=Werner|first1=Janet|last2=O'Neill|first2=Colleen|last3=Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery|date=1998|publisher=Division of University Relations for Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery|isbn=9780929025315|location=St. John's, Nfld.|language=en|oclc=51296428}}
- {{Cite book|title=Trance, Patrick Traer, Janet Werner: [exhibition catalogue|last1=Traer|first1=Patrick|last2=Baerwaldt|first2=Wayne|last3=Ring|first3=Dan|last4=Werner|first4=Janet|last5=Mendel Art Gallery|date=1998|publisher=Mendel Art Gallery|isbn=9781896359182|location=Saskatoon|language=en|oclc=39354947}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner: trust|last1=Werner|first1=Janet|last2=Art Gallery of Mississauga|last3=Thames Art Gallery (Chatham|first3=Ont.)|date=2000|publisher=Art Gallery of Mississauga|isbn=9781895436365|location=Mississauga, Ont.|language=en|oclc=50239146}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner: since first I cast eyes on you = depuis mon premier regard sur toi|last1=Werner|first1=Janet|last2=Baert|first2=Renee|last3=Ottawa Art Gallery|date=2002|publisher=Ottawa Art Gallery = Galerie d'art d'Ottawa|isbn=9781895108910|location=Ottawa|oclc=62535428}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner|last1=Baert|first1=Renee|last2=Liane and Danny Taran Gallery|last3=Galerie Liane et Danny Taran|date=2007|publisher=SBC / Galerie d'art contemporain|isbn=9780920473702|location=Montreal|oclc=297155730}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner: too much happiness|last1=Werner|first1=Janet|last2=Parisian Laundry (Montréal|first2=Québec)|date=2008|publisher=Parisian Laundry|isbn=9780973942255|location=Montréal, Qc|oclc=297156102}}
- {{Cite book|title=Janet Werner : another perfect day|author=Archer, Kent|year=2013|display-authors=etal|isbn=9780888805874|location=Saskatoon|oclc=861535394}}
Notes
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External links
- [http://www.canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2010/01/14/janet-werner/ Janet Werner: By All Appearances] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330170832/http://www.canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2010/01/14/janet-werner/ |date=2012-03-30 }}
- [http://hour.ca/2005/07/28/piece-and-parcel/ Janet Werner gets real: Piece and parcel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220000/http://hour.ca/2005/07/28/piece-and-parcel/ |date=2016-03-03 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062940/http://www.cameronskene.ca/Werner.pdf Janet Werner "Who's Sorry Now at Parisian Laundry]
- [http://www.montrealmirror.com/2010/031110/artsweek.html Women and Animals]
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Category:Artists from Winnipeg