Description
ARTIST STATEMENT
As my work evolves, I continue to look for ways to express what is personal to me. For the past decade, my work has mostly been a reaction to snapshots of my family and friends. Often, I draw from photos that would be typically deleted from the camera. My interest is not to define a person it’s more about capturing a moment in time.
I make my decisions about a drawing first, by my instincts about a snapshot and then the sociological/emotional impact of the image. I often look from themes in my work, making unrelated photos relate, repeating an image, and altering size. I exaggerate color and use texture to create movement, moving further away from static portraiture.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Janet Tsakis has a B.A. in Visual Arts from Rutgers University and received an M.A. in Arts Education from Kean University. She has exhibited throughout the tri-state area and received the Leila Gardin Sawyer Memorial Award from The American Artists Professional League, NYC and the Florence B. Andreson Memorial Award from the National Association of Women Artists, NYC. Other honors include the Geraldine Dodge Full Fellowship Award at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT and the Geraldine Dodge Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Peters Valley Fiber Art Residency 2023 and Wiawaka Artist Residency 2025 and 2026. Her work has been published in several publications, Fiber Arts Now, Hudson Reporter and Adirondack Journal. She is a member of Guttenberg Arts and Center for Book Arts.
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