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        Janet Lage (Connecticut) (see images below) Janet Lage studied art at the University of Hartford and the University of Maine. Her work has been featured most extensively in New York and Connecticut, but exhibited in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and California as well. The Stamford Museum and Nature Center has been a frequent exhibitor of Lage’s work as has the University of Connecticut at Avery Point. She received the Speedball Award as part of the 74th Annual Connecticut Women Artists, juried by Freshteh Daftari, Co-Curator of the Museum of Modern Art. She also won the Solo Show Award at the Viridian Gallery in New York City juried by Diane Waldman, Senior Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. At the Silvermine Guild Gallery in New Canaan, Connecticut she was part of an exhibition titled “Art of the Northeast”, juried by Patterson Sims, Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lage’s work takes its form as she experiences the world within the gap between seeing and knowing. She has developed a vocabulary of marks, materials, textures, and colors that are symbolic expressions of the residue of life. She sees the paint as a living thing with inclinations of its own and she opens herself up to collaborate with it. Calligraphic lines and irregular edges are born from the rawness of nature and contemporary culture. Drawing inspiration from life’s curious daily events and scenes, she synchronizes the intertwined existence of order and disorder. Her work positions itself loosely between representation and abstraction in search of this expression. Lage absorbs her surroundings and takes nothing for granted. She finds worth and meaning in the mundane as well as the exotic. Her work expresses the parallel realities of life’s scenes and events. In this way, her work is affirming and positive, giving weight to the seemingly insignificant as well as the momentous, providing a model for our travels. |
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