Float (pink trace), 2016
For nearly two decades Werner has focused primarily on the female figure, painting a range of altered and exaggerated portraits, through the amalgamation of found images drawn from magazines and illustrated books. In Sticky Pictures, Werner makes visible the source material of her paintings – not only the subject in the photograph, but also the photograph itself; the material quality of the printed image, its traces of weathering, handling and use, its physical presence as an object lying on the corner of a table or hanging loosely on a wall, in a space that might be a studio. Continue reading Janet Werner
