Jan Black - Wood Sculpture

Education

BFA IL Wesleyan University
MS in Art (printmaking and sculpture)
University of Wisconsin

Exhibitions

Easter Shore Art Center 1994
Fairhope, Alabama
(Solo Exhibition)

Still-Zinsel Gallery 1995
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Group Show)

University of Mobile 2000
Mobile,Alabama
(Group Show)

Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum 2005
LaGrange, Georgia
(Solo Exhibition)

Mobile Museum of Art 2005
Mobile, Alabama
(Group Show)

The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts 2006
Pensacola, Florida
(Two Person Show)

Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art 2007
Biloxi, Mississippi
(Group Show)

Artist Statement

I’ve always liked to draw and color - particularly portraits (hands and faces) of friends and family. And I’ve always been interested in perspective.

I consider my carvings a kind of thick drawing (like board lumber retaining its two dimensional quality). When I vary much from the very real-looking it’s to see how far I can alter normal perspective or maybe it’s my right brain having some say. I don’t intend a message or to convey some literal idea. I just want to make really attractive, tactilely satisfying things that are interesting and well crafted.

Janice Kay Landwehr Black