Janet Werner: Sticky Pictures

Sticky
Pictures examines
and celebrates the evolving work of Montreal-based artist Janet Werner. In
her paintings, Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurative
explorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collage-like
composite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty, gender,
psychology and emotion. Werner's painterly operations are both unsettling and
seductive, revealing the conditions of perception and looking as passageways to
understanding the intensity of the world at hand. Werner's unique combination of abstraction,
fictional portraiture, and the rich history of painting are explored in Sticky
Pictures through texts by art and media historians, as well as an interview
with the artist.







Janet Werner's work has been featured
in international solo exhibitions from New York to Los Angeles and as far away
as Cape Town. Her work was included in the Prague Biennale in 2003 and is featured
in the collections of the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Musee
d'art contemporain in Montreal, The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Winnipeg
Art Gallery, the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the University of Lethbridge,
Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Dunlop Art
Gallery in Regina, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco, and
numerous private and corporate collections. Werner lives and works in
Montreal.