Janice Marin

Janice Marin creates drawings and oil paintings that bridge spatio-temporal narratives through systems of color and visual framing. In painting, fragments come together and become concrete. In that shift, the work becomes something else entirely, its own original form. A painting within a painting, a kind of mise-en-abyme, an image both folded into and out of itself. What is remembered is remade, and what is remade points back to its own making.

Marin’s logic continues through systems and processes that expand a two-dimensional surface through points of perspective and framing. Color operates inside that system. Each hue is mixed, assigned a name, and documented in a key aligned with the top left corner of the picture plane, arranged in a sequence of bars that communicate the rhizomatic human experience.

Janice Marin’s artistic practice delves into the interplay of shape, line, and color, weaving abstract geometric and organic forms with recognizable elements to create a painted memoir. Her oil paintings evolve from sketchbook studies where she decides on framing, layering, and color palette, drawing inspiration from her personal stories, events, and experiences.

As a first-generation Canadian and American citizen with Argentinian heritage. Her artistic sensibility was nurtured by her grandmother’s kitchen, her mother’s sewing machine, her grandfather’s garden, and her uncle’s patience. Her grandmother, an artist-educator from San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, introduced her to watercolor painting at the age of five, a core memory that ignited her passion for art.

Janice Marin earned a BFA from The Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in a log cabin in Sunderland, Vermont, near the Battenkill River. near the Battenkill River. Her work has been showcased nationally at venues such as the CapitalOne art program and Art NXT Level Projects/33 Contemporary in Chicago, as well as the Student|Teacher Exhibit in Waterloo, IA. Marin was nominated for the Taylor Award by The Correctional Services of Canada and her art is included in collections like Allianz Reinsurance in Zurich and UCLA.

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