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60 Hildreth Place, East Hampton, NY 11937
BIO:
Janet Goleas studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving both her BFA and MFA there. She developed her practice while teaching and exhibiting widely on the west coast, moving to New York City in 1983. There, Goleas moved from site-specific installation and sculptural works she had become know for, to canvas painting. In 1997, she moved to Long Island's east end first teaching at Southampton College, then becoming Director of Education at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Her practice evolved in this new environment, expanding to include not only painting but critical writing, curating, and lecturing. Goleas has exhibited her works in Europe and the U.S., most recently at the Parrish Art Museum's exhibition, Artists Choose Artists.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My painting is an exploration of process, structure, and geometries that shift between depths. I paint with loose swaths of color and form that move about the picture plane seeking and gradually defining an interior anatomy. Gesture and precision are fundamental to these works, and I enjoy the movement and slather of the brush as it seeks to balance rhythm, awkwardness, and resolve. I want to marry the visceral and the absolute, and to anchor the composition with resolute abstract form. I'm interested in the oppositional – precision and disorder, singularity and multiplicity, solid and void – and feel I operate best in-between these visual contradictions.
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