Janet Atlas from the CMA gallery invites you all to an art opening this Sunday, Dec 15th from 6 – 8 pm at the CMA Gallery (4501 N Interlake Suite #9):
CMA Gallery presents our new resident artist Janet Atlas. She will have her paper mosaics and collages up for viewing throughout the month and into the New Year. There will be an Art Opening and Open House this Sunday, December 15th from 6-8pm in the CMA Gallery. Join us in welcoming Janet to the community and have an opportunity to view her pieces in a casual and relaxed atmosphere.
Bio and Artists Statement
I always wanted to be an artist. As a small child I loved coloring books and making my own pictures. I followed this dream through 3 colleges and got a B.F.A. from The College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California in 1980. Over the years, I’ve pursued many different artistic endeavors, but nothing that captured my sustained interest.
What Happened to Change Things..
One day, looking through an interior design book, I became attracted to a mirror made up of small squares of mirror. The overall reflections in these mirrors were similar to an abstract painting. Reflections were fragmented and bent in such a way as to obscure their owner’s identity. In effect, the image was the owner’s, and then not. I liked the idea of exploring this dichotomy. In July, 2011, I visited Pompeii, Italy and loved the ancient mosaics there. The mirror in the book reminded me of tile mosaics and I thought I could do something similar with glossy paper cut into squares.
More recently, I’ve been working with recognizable images to produce fantasy landscapes that can be understood more easily by the subconscious. You might call these collages “quirky”. In these images I try to set up a dichotomy of the images being one thing and then on closer inspection, they tell a story about something else. I intend to keep on exploring collages using other techniques and materials.