Biography

 

Janice Gordon is a visual artist who works in diverse media, including sculpture, assemblage, collage and photography.  She grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the northwestern United States and has degrees in English Literature (B.A.) and Psychology (M.A.). She studied art history in Rome and studio art in New York City.  Gordon has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome and has participated in artist residencies in the United States and Europe.  Her work has been exhibited in various museums, including a solo exhibition at Museo della Specola in Florence, Italy, Museo Iconografico de Quijote in the Mexican Capital of Guanajuato and the Museo de la Mujer in Mexico City. She will have a solo exhibition at the Museo de la Medicina in Mexico City in 2024.  Gordon presently lives and works in New York City and Mexico.

 

Artist Statement

 

  My work draws on my interest in combining and transcending apparent opposites: the physical and the metaphysical; art and science; the concrete and the ephemeral; human and animal. This springs from my belief in a greater whole in which seemingly diverse phenomena are interconnected. In past years, I explored the complex nature of the heart, from a metaphorical, metaphysical and medical point of view. In continuing to investigate “what lies within us, body and soul,” this work culminated in a solo exhibition at the Museo della Specola in Florence, Italy and will be shown in the Museo de la Medicina in Mexico City in 2024.  My recent body of work is related to birds as symbols of human aspiration. In this regard, I combined collage and photography in the series The Woman Who Becomes a Bird, an evolving tale of transformation, which unites “woman” and “bird,” matter and spirit.  In the fall of 2022, I had an artist residency in Assisi, Italy,  which has inspired  a photographiic/textile project that addresses the historical and contemporary nature of Assisi, as well as the sacred and the secular.