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Artist Exhibitions:
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
ON THE PLANET, Nagoya Citizens
Gallery at Yada, Nagoya,
Japan, January 27 – February
7, 2010
Mille Cadeaux, Maison Kasini,
Montreal, Canada, December
2010-January, 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Flynndog, Burlington, VT,
Afterward, (2-person with
Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert; Van
Fleet: All Aboard) October,
2010
Claire’s, Hardwick, VT,
Priests, ...
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Artist Statement for Janet Van Fleet
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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 the physical universe - our own planet, the other spinning globes (both near and far) that surround us, and the unseen worlds of vibrating atoms and molecules of which we are composed.
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