"Our World Is Changing: Let's Change The World" - Jan Smith Gallery Opening

A Place In Time
Jan Smith Solo Exhibition
December 5 - January 31
Opening reception, December 5, 5-7pm.
Wellington and Muranyi Galleries at the Monroe Art Center, Monroe, WI.
1315 11th Street, Monroe, WI 53566
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-2pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Jan Smith talks about her work below:

My recent work evolved during the pandemic, when the world was not only confronted with a deadly virus, but our vision was also consumed by extraordinary events. From this period, the Storming Series emerged using dramatic landscapes from photos I have taken to create pastel and watercolor images that wrestled with the changing atmospheric storms of our time caused by climate change.

As an artist, I am passionate about impact. I want my work to resonate with a viewer as something that is evocative, serving as a call to action and a catalyst for change. In examining the impact of climate change, I use the threatening appearance of landscapes to signal alarm and warning, or the serene bucolic reference for landscape that may be threatened. The pleasant fleeting scene is only that, fleeting and if not cared for, it may be gone.

My studio work consists of both watercolor and pastel, focusing on landscape, sometimes painted plein air and more often from photos I have taken outdoors. I use landscape as a metaphor to mark brief periods in time, transitions, change and emotional impact.

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