JANET GOLEAS

I am an artist, writer, and independent curator. In my practice, now in its fourth decade, I have exhibited widely across numerous platforms, most recently at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, the Parrish Art Museum, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Crush Curatorial, Galerie Toolbox in Berlin, and Galeria Huuto Jatkasaari in Helsinki. In 2020, I participated in Drive-By-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing), for which my project was featured in Time Out magazine. While I am chiefly a painter, over time my focus has evolved to include sculpture and installation. My involvement in the arts is augmented by critical writing on modern and contemporary art and independent curatorial projects. 

My work revolves around issues that are often in direct conflict with one another such as depth and flatness, nature and artifice, and expression and precision. My discipline reflects a specific focus on natural patterns, (like those found in crystals, eclipses, and phases of the moon) and fractures in patterning (billiard trajectories, radial lines, ripples in water, and overlapping rings). Working in layers, I explore the structure and dissonance within image fields that are disrupted by a distinct geometry, a gestural line, or an intrusion of vivid color that upends the picture plane. I seek a confluence between the slushy expressionism of my grounds and the geometric specificity of circles and splices of circles as well as lines, scaffolds, and squares.