Janice Sloane - "Sweet" 2011

Janice Sloane

In my work, the theme of skin and its impermanence has always been a constant — starting from the use of wax in painting, to create a textural body, which then emerged from the canvas to the elastic skin of a model I collaborated with and photographed for 7 years until his death. I am now continuing with these themes of impermanence while relating them to women’s issues regarding aging, “ideal beauty”, sexuality, eternal youth, and cosmetic surgery. I am also inspired by African sculpture, ritual objects and painting references. For many years I was working with latex and vinyl in the form of sheet latex or fragments of Halloween masks — very tactile and sensuous mediums in which to convey impressions of skin and flesh. With these materials I was able to reference aging, deformities, discolorations, decay and exaggerated features as they are used to create the “horrific”. I took a series of photos of boiling objects. The work was inspired by my finding a set of dentures on 25th street. I was boiling them to clean them and became fascinated with the bubbles, their movement, breath and how the objects got obscured by the energy of the bubbles. This gave them life while at the same time abstracting them. JANICE SLOANE E mail jbsloane22@aol.com www.janicesloane.com 212 982 9133 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Governors Island Art Fair, That's It, NYC 2007 Galeria La Refaccionaria, Head Case Fit, Mexico DF 2001 Art Resources Transfer Inc., Project Room 3, NYC 1999 Art Resources Transfer Inc., Project Wall, NYC. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Beta Spaces, Unkind, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Page Not Found, Co-Mix, Brooklyn, NY 2008 White Box, The Dream of the Red Chamber Masquerade Ball, NYC Fusion Arts Museum, Woman, NYC 2007 Newman Popiashvili Gallery, I Died For Beauty, NYC F Space, 18th Festival International du Film Lesbien & Feministe de Paris, Paris France X Teresa Arte Actual, Eject, Primer Festival de Videoperformance, Mexico DF Galeria La Refaccionaria, Enmascaradas, Mexico DF El Centro de la Imagen, Enmascaradas, Mexico DF 2005 Dig 101 Gallery, Northerner Obscuras, Houston, Texas Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Body Image, Chicago, Ill. Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Me, Myself and My Emotions, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Festival Internacional Barcelona Arte Contemporaneo, Piel de Pieles, Barcelona, Spain Pierogi 2000, Pierogi Gravity Racers, Bklyn, N.Y. White Box Annex, Gun and Wound Show, NYC Neue Galerie Graz, Support, Graz, Austria 2002 Garash, Instant Coffee Projects Urban Disco Cart, Mexico D.F. 2001 Centrodearte, ARCO, Ventanas, Madrid, Spain 2000 ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology, The Anagrammatical Body, Karlsruhe, Germany Tel Aviv Artists Studio Gallery, Mount Miami, Tel Aviv, Israel Eugenia Vargas Studio/Residence, Home Invasion, Miami, Florida 1999 DESTE Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Skin, Athens, Greece Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, The Anagrammatical Body, Murzzuschlag, Austria El Espacio, 25x25, salon de pequeno formato, Mexico D.F SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 Sensitive Skin Magazine, Janice Sloane,Fall 2011 issue. Certain Circuits, Janice Sloane, Sept & Oct issue 2011 2007 Milenio, Suplemento Cultural, Janice Sloane: Head Case Fit en la Refaccionaria, Magali Tercero, Mexico D.F. 2006 The Herald, Playing Hide and Sick in the Refaccionaria,,Caroline Mackinnon, Mexico D.F. 2001 Art New England, Kenise Barnes Fine Art/Larchmont, Katherine Gass, Ethik & Unterrich, Body Check, Sabine Himmelsbach, Seelze,Germany El Periodico del Arte, La mirada poliedrica, Lorna Scott Fox, Madrid, Spain. 2000 The Anagrammatical Body: The Body and its Photographic Condition, Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria 1999 Skin (catalogue), Tabula Nuda, Andrea Gilbert, Athens, Greece N.Y. Times, Communicating through Photographs, D. Dominick Lombardi, N.Y, N.Y. SELECTED COLLECTIONS Dr.Steve Shane, NYC Dr. John Berger, NJ Dr. David Salvage, NYC Matthias Camenzind- C-Collection, NYC, Switzerland Ricardo Ovalle, Mexico DF Kate Christensen, Bklyn, NY Neue Galerie Graz, Austria Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, NYC Christopher Coleman, NYC Ben Widdicombe, NYC