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Janet werner
Janet Werner (born 1959, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Montreal based artist. Her work is found in many public collections across Canada.
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Biography
Janet Werner was born in 1959 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, where she teaches at the University of Concordia. Janet 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. From 1987 to 1999 she taught painting and drawing at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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. 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.
Her work can be found in private and public collections such as the Collection of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa; the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec; the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal; the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, N.B.; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon ; University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge; Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina; the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa.
