Janis Kanter
As a child, Janis Kanter spent hours cutting and pasting paper collages of pictures and text. She had ideas and opinions that realized a physical outlet in her artistic efforts. Five decades later her ideas and opinions are still flowing and her studio practice has evolved in size, sophistication, and reach, but the critical eye she put on the world as a child hasn’t really changed. Now, her ideas are made material through the tat-tat-tating of her sewing needle as she creates bold narratives of fascinating and often unlikely scenarios.
Kanter sews her heart and soul into these amazing artworks. Searching high and low, she sources interesting and unusual fabrics and, collaging them together, constructs humorous landscapes, both familiar and unexpected. She coyly invites the viewer to explore a multi-layered universe of oddly incongruent components—a world both light-hearted and serious. She believes in the textile medium and sees it as offering the most welcoming portal for one to visit. No RSVP required!
For pricing and availability please email us at lisa@arbor3arts.com
Stop Being So Catty, 2020
Can’t Ice Us Out, 2020
She Wanted the Blue Sky, 2020
Perspective, 2020