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Artist Information:
Janna Geary
Pasadena, CA
United States
Member Since: Feb 2004
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Artist Statement:
“My work has a voice…one that
uses a “loudspeaker” to
communicate, and lives a much
more flamboyant existence.
My new work offers a realistic
assessment of humanity’s fears
and a broadened spectrum on
which of those fears or
experiences exist, and whom
they belong to. The purpose
of my art is to be a kind of
“social therapy” that
functions through
acknowledging experiences,
emotions, or subject matter
that is uncomfortable, and
then re-presenting it to my
audience in a matter in which
they are forced to observe
it…sometimes through a
different perspective, and
sometimes through their own.


After being asked, “Why are
you trying to protect your
audience?” I realized, not
only was I trying to protect
my audience, but more
importantly I was trying to
protect myself from what was
really happening in my life.
The discoveries I was
“silently” making were
actually repressing my
creative process, and the
shift to challenge that
protection is uncovering an
intellectual side to my work,
in which I also become aware
of my own motives for my
painting. Through the process
of witnessing humanity (and
inhumanity for that matter), I
have developed a much greater
understanding of an...

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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 "Tease Show" Greenlight
Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA

2001 "Passion's Timeline" Che
Cosa, Detroit, MI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Zear Satellite Galleries,
Long Beach, CA
2004 "Los Angeles Open"
Barnsdall Art Park, Hollywood,
CA
2004 "FARfetched Benefit Art
Auction", Los Angeles, CA
2003 Silver Lake Art Crawl,Los
...

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Artist Galleries:
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Commissions:
1997 Soundstage Café
1997 Subwave
1998 Flavoritz Cafe
1998 Wonder World
1998 Lexington Orchard
1998 Fred Grande Ford
1999 Louis’ Chophouse
1999 Luigi’s Downtown
2000 Parkway Café
2000 3Z Salon
1998 Dean Tagliavia
1999 Mario Olgiati
2000 Maryann and Michael
Bolton
2000 The Poupard’s
2001 Joe and Sue ...

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Collections for Janna Geary:



2000 3Z Salon
1999 Paul Gogo
2000 Elizabeth Geary
2000 Michelle and Terry McQuade
2001 Debbie Maniscalco
2001 Joe and Sue Memminger
2001 Bosef Xavier
2002 Bill & Francis Higginbottom
2002 Eric Schissel
2003 Elizabeth Geary
2003 Engel Theoford
2003 Phillip Brown
2004 Shannon O’Shea


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