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Artist Reviews:
"I really like this chapbook
from MiPO. Both Snells'
(author and painter) works
soar in this lovely book. It
was interesting to watch the
movement of fear between the
poems: first in the scent of
violets, then to "Fight or
Flight" and the heart's
leaping, and the "Risk"
with...
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Artist Statement for Janet Snell
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At the Maryland Institute College of Art, I studied painting with the late Ed Dugmore and came under the influence Nolde, Munch, Bacon, Kollwitz and Ernst. My work at that time was dark and moody, with figurative elements half-buried in the space and emerging to the surface in ambiguous ways. Sometimes the surface was well-worked, the layering of color inciting surprise as images rose to the surface and darted away again.
I think in images. To present images in a more definite space, putting the psychology of emotion under the light, I improvise in a spontaneous vein. I’m led around by the brush in an automatic way that allows for sensitivity. Subsequent decisions are then made from practice and experience. Executed pre-meditated meaning makes lifeless art—no improvisation, no process.
The meaning in my work is the poetry between image and space—implied rather than overt, human psychology, painted. The mental landscape is abstract and can be felt. The figurative elements are elements I start with in a painting. The space is improvised.
In my drawings, I make figures in a space suited to them. Using the figurative head in an abstract space focuses the relationship between the figurative and abstract elements and lets the viewer experience the psychology of the human figure. To connect the head to its surroundings, I add wires, tacks, viaducts, tubes, railroad tracks, stitches, etc. to establish the psychological relationship between head and space. One critic described this work (as shown in my three books, FLYTRAP, HEADS, and PRISONER'S DILEMMA), "mysterious, subtly erotic; the graphic equivalent of black humor."
In all my art, I aim to provoke thought in both the viewer and myself.
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