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Artist Statement for Janine Brown
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I must confess. I have an obsession – tear sheets. I started collecting images from Fashion magazines when I was at Mason City High School in Iowa. As an art student in college, my obsession grew to include Art and Architecture images as well as Fashion. After several life changes and more than a dozen moves, I decided that I no longer needed my fashion fix. It was time for a new chapter in my life and time to dispose of my tear sheets.
The fashion images on the tear sheets no longer held the appeal of my pre-child/married life. As I perused the images, I started looking beyond the foreground to the blurry images in the background and I felt a connection. My pre-child, easy-going life seemed to be fading and blurring away, much like the images in the background. Taking scissors to paper, I started cutting up the tear sheets, finding interesting compositions within the backgrounds of the photos.
I use the “mini” tear sheets as a starting point for my abstract compositions. Unlike the slick images of the Fashionistas, the reality of the subject matter is obscured by the blurry imagery and then transformed once more as I start to paint. I let my mood influence the strokes and colors that I use. During the creation process, the images are simplified and shapes are defined to create geometric landscapes and figures. In my own protest against the fashionably large works of art that are the trend in Contemporary Art, I work in a small scale of 6" x 6". As I create new imagery from the tear sheets, I am excited about recreating my own future.
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