Janeann Dill in Create/Space Exhibition
"Oui", Watercolor, oil pastels, graphite on Handmade Paper (Cotton), Museum Framed: 22.5" (H) X 18.5" (W)
Janeann Dill is pleased to announce that her work on paper was selected to exhibit in the Somerville Open Studios Exhibition curated by Heather Balchunas for the Somerville Arts Council, on view at Inside-OUT Gallery, April 15 - May 15, 2022.
The theme of Create/Space is the overriding concept described in Somerville Arts Council's call for submissions:
For the past couple years, the relationship to our surroundings has shifted in various ways. Homes became works spaces. Art studios became respites from current events. ... but what makes a creative space? Why is it important to how we create? What happens when it is no longer there? Now more than ever it seems that space is occupying important real estate in many people’s minds.
Artists may find inspiration by the angular structures of urban landscapes or ... a plein air painting along the Mystic. For others their muse strikes most often in their art studio – away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life while others have lost the creative space all together. Whether space ... is a state of mind or an actual location…
"Oui" / "Yes" was created by Janeann Dill in her studio in the South of France (Vence) on handmade paper she made from cotton pulp. Watercolor, oil pastels, and graphite, this artwork reflects the very heart of this exhibition's description, i.e., create space. Dill describes herself as an artist whose art is concept-based and research-based and points only to itself; and is imagined as an invisible outer /inner space be-coming a visible inner/outer spatial relationship, each to the other simultaneously, at once. For this particular work, it can be said that thought, color and time/timing supposed a kind of archaic memorializing to create a contemporary space for a visual palimpsest.
Color is the place where the brain meets the universe. -- Paul Gaugin
https://www.somervilleopenstudios.org/web/artists/artist_profile/2149