Video Still; Video exploring the process of dying and the struggle for survival.
Video Still
Video Still; Video giving a voyeuristic view of the process of healing after the loss of a child.
Video Still; Gathering Ashes to release in the river from a bridge
Video Still; Retrieving ashes from the river, a return to the survivor
Video Installation; Vitrine containing evidence of the life of a child from the womb and through childhood. Audio of sonogram with reading of birth and death from Book of Psalms. Steel, umbilical cord, teeth, hair.
Detail
Video Still.
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Installation with Sound; Sampling of community sexual offenders and predators in illuminated steel boxes facing suspended latex shrine. The numbers on the shrine's surface reference FDLE cases for those convicted.
Detail of Shrine; Inside, sounds of children playing at a playground escalate from innocence to violence, then silence
Detail of images
Detial of image
Eighteen foot tall shrine sheathed in black fabric. Water drips rhythmically from inside the shrine to a water-filled basin below, disturbing its contents.
Detail of steel basin that holds dripping water.
Detail of basin contents; a 1960's vintage photo of a nuclear family, at church after the Sacrament of Baptism. The photo is continually disturbed by the dripping movement of water.
Installation (Time Manipulated) This work is a response to the loss of four lives in a crash. Accidents happen every day, but to witness the loss of life firsthand and the guilt that arises from the inability to help is overwhelming.
Latex sheet obscures the details pertaining to the accident.
Pristine white covers on the vitrines with Eucharist wafers.
Each vitrine contains ashes from the site where the lives were lost. Wine drips onto three of the vitrines and water on the fourth, staining the fabric, Eucharist wafers and ashes. The aroma of decay filled the air over time.
Installation. Fate is like the lottery; you never know who will win and who lose. This work illustrates the selection process of fate that has marked its victim with a physical disability while those around him appear to be unscathed.
Found Objects
Artist Statement
My sculptural environments offer a voyeur's view to death, loss and the struggle for survival. Through video, still imagery, and abstracted sounds in constructed spaces, I allow the viewer an opportunity to witness the act of dying, the aftermath of loss and the process of healing.
Janis Brothers
Curriculum Viate
Biography
Janis Brothers is an artist of diversity, both in media and the scale of her work. Her interdisciplinary approach to art incorporates drawing, ceramics, sculpture, metals, photography and digital video as tools for fabricating her ideas into reality. With a background in design, she is as comfortable creating intricate small-scale metal work as she is developing large-scale installations that engage the viewer. Technology and conceptual themes are evident throughout her portfolio.With more than twenty-five years experience as an artist, art educator and art advocate, Janis actively promotes the arts as viable profession. Her resume includes more than twenty-five exhibitions throughout Florida and South Georgia including 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, The Fine Arts Gallery at Valdosta State University, Oglesby Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Thomas Center Galleries in Gainesville, and the von Liebig Art Center in Naples. She also maintains active membership in the College Art Association, a leading organization that upholds the standards of theory, research and artistic practice in the visual arts. Janis has published several articles through community venues, and has received numerous awards, honors, and commissions. Her work has been collected private collectors and public institutions.After receiving a BS in Interior Design from Florida State University in 1986, Janis worked in the design industry and as a secondary school art educator before receiving a MFA from Florida State University in 2005. Since 2006, she has served as Professor of Art at Lake City Community College, teaching classes in ceramics, drawing, painting, design, metals/jewelry, sculpture, printmaking, art appreciation and art history. Janis continues her artistic practice through research and exhibition and enhances her academic and artistic pursuits by continuing her education in classes and workshops throughout the United States.
Janis Brothers is an artist of diversity, both in media and the scale
of her work. Her interdisciplinary approach to art incorporates drawing, ceramics, sculpture, metals, photography and digital video as tools for fabricating her ideas into reality. With a background in design, she is as comfortable creating intricate small-scale metal work as she is developing large-scale installations that engage the viewer. Technology and conceptual themes are evident throughout her portfolio.
With more than twenty-five years experience as an artist, art educator and art advocate, Janis actively promotes the arts as viable profession. Her resume includes more than twenty-five exhibitions throughout Florida and South Georgia including 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, The Fine Arts Gallery at Valdosta State University, Oglesby Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Thomas Center Galleries in Gainesville, and the von Liebig Art Center in Naples. She also maintains active membership in the College Art Association, a leading organization that upholds the standards of theory, research and artistic practice in the visual arts. Janis has published several articles through community venues, and has received numerous awards, honors,
and commissions. Her work has been collected private collectors and public institutions.
After receiving a BS in Interior Design from Florida State University in 1986, Janis worked in the design industry and as a secondary school art educator before receiving a MFA from Florida State University in 2005. Since 2006, she has served as Professor of Art at Lake City Community College, teaching classes in ceramics, drawing, painting, design, metals/jewelry, sculpture, printmaking, art appreciation and art history. Janis continues her artistic practice through research and exhibition and enhances her academic and artistic pursuits by continuing her education in classes and workshops throughout the United States.
Links
The Electronic Girl: Art that Makes you Squirm by Amy Letter
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621 Gallery- Tallahassee, Florida
League Of Graduate Artist-Florida State University-Master Of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions
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