Artist Information:
Janet Van Fleet
Barre, VT
United States
Member Since: Aug 2006
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Artist Statement:
We live at a time when visual
data from the sciences -
microbiology, physics, and
space science - are among the
most beautiful and compelling
images we encounter. Our
post-modernist perspective has
moved from an aesthetic that
regards portraiture,
landscape, and still life as
iconic representations of the
true and the beautiful, to the
view that the traces of
sub-atomic particles and
photographs of distant
galaxies may have more to tell
us about beauty, truth and our
place in the universe.
Positioned, as we are, between
the very big and the very
small, something must bring us
back to the human scale, and I
have chosen the humble button.
These little circular forms
(and their painted facsimiles)
suggest to me individual units
of being or matter, like motes
in the sunlight. They
represent, both formally and
symbolically, all the
different orders of magnitude,
from sub-atomic particles
through suns and galaxies. It
is my intention that as
viewers explore these works,
they cast themselves gently
into space-time and drift in a
place where there is no up and
down or falling and rising,
but only floating as one
element in the field.
The work in this exhibit is
about ...
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Janet Van Fleet's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Janet Van Fleet's Portfolio. Browse Van Fleet's body of work: We live at a time when visual data from the sciences - microbiology, physics, and space science - are among the most beautiful and compelling images we encounter. Our post-modernist perspective has moved from an aesthetic that regards portraiture, landscape, and still life as iconic representations of the true and the beautiful, to the view that the traces of sub-atomic particles and photographs of distant galaxies may have more to tell us about beauty, truth and our place in the universe.
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