Janet Werner is an artist known for painting psychological portraits of women. She externalises psychological splits within her 'broken pictures' and her subjects present more as ideas—vessels for viewers to pour themselves into. We relate to them through their disruptions—shrinking heads, contorting bodies, flipping figures upside-down, or partial obscuration.
Read MoreJanet Werner (b. 1959, Winnipeg, Manitoba) lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She received her MFA from Yale University in 1987. Solo exhibitions include Parisian Laundry (Montreal), Galerie Julia Garnatz (Cologne), Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts (Montreal), Whatiftheworld Gallery (Cape Town) and Plug Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg). Group exhibitions include AXENEO7 (Gatineau), MASS MoCA (North Adams), Musée d'art contemporain (Montreal), Kenderdine Art Gallery (Saskatoon).
A solo survey exhibition entitled, Another Perfect Day organised by the Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, toured to five locations in Canada from 2013—2015, including the Esker Foundation (Calgary); the McIntosh Gallery, (Ontario); Galerie de l'UQAM (Montreal); and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto). Werner's work is in the collections of the Musée du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain (Montreal), The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Owens Art Gallery (Sackville), the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, University of Lethbridge (Alberta), Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Mendel Art Gallery and numerous private and corporate collections.
Text courtesy Anat Ebgi.
