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Janet Werner
- Birch Libralato
- 129 Tecumseth St. • View on map »
- 416-365-3003
Janet Werner is a contemporary portraitist with abstract leanings, uninterested in
accurately representing specific subjects. Indeed, most figures she paints are composites of, among other things, models’ faces in magazines. Werner’s portraiture concerns the very symbolism of looking—both the power of being beheld and that of beholding. The beautiful women in her work have lately been complemented with cute and fluffy animals, in tandem with a more brutal approach to their rendering. In the tradition
of Philip Guston, Werner’s brush strokes stress the primitively dangerous aspects of the so-called kitsch she paints. Artwork $2,800–$12,000.—David Balzer
- When:
- Nov. 22/08 - Dec. 20/08
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