Janice Weeks MFA

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Artist Statement

We are made of many layers. Revelation and concealment, both conceptually and formally, drive my work. I am continually searching for the connections within and between.

Usually, my work will evolve from a mental image or a formal experiment. Numerous materials serve as sources of motivation and work reductively to unify form and feeling. The mediums that attract me are generally transformative and can deceive or play with appearance to carry several meanings.

I am constantly researching, mixing, altering, testing and waiting. Literally touching and holding materials during media application cements my involvement with the method and conception on many levels. My process holds both moments of invention and discovery, and because of this, the imagery has evolved to that of an alchemist.

I have used wound imagery over the past few years to suggest many ideas. I think that the wounds represent growth in pain, beauty in suffering. They insinuate the limitation of the human body and the connection between mental and physical states and spaces. The paintings are, in a sense, fetishistic objects, and they are manipulated to imply this condition. They represent us as a vulnerable figure; one that is constantly transformed.