Janice Gossman Art

Portfolio

  • Drawings, Paintings, Prints, and 2D Mixed-Media

  • 3D

  • Photographs

  • Installation

bio

     For years, I have been exploring ways in which I can use various techniques and materials to create images, objects, and environments in which the ordinary may become mysterious, and through which the viewer might be left with something unresolved.
Much of my work involves portraiture since a person as subject matter can bring about a direct and immediate response. My representational pieces tend to be of people and animals.
Sometimes I break down subjects or objects, and reassemble them into something new that is no longer identifiable, but which still has recognizable elements. At times, I cover selected areas of representational images with abstractions.
Recently, I have been improvising abstract drawings and paintings with continuous lines or rhythmic brushstrokes coinciding with music. My favorite music for this process is music by Funkadelic and by Miles Davis.
Not always, but often, I try to incorporate humor into my artwork, and I always hope to invoke the viewer’s curiosity.

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Contact

  • Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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Exhibits:

2023 Manifesting Beloved Community, West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton Junction, NJ

Audience Voices Creative Reactions Contest (first prize for drawing), Princeton University Concert Series, Princeton, NJ

2019 Winter Blues, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ

2017 Subjective (Women’s Caucus for Art), Riverside Library, New York, NY

2016 Collective Visions, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ 

Community, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ

Petit Group Exhibition, Emerge Gallery & Art Space, Saugerties, NY 

2015 Members‘ Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

Spring Gala Auction, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ 

Small Works, Gallery U Boutique, Westfield, NJ

Photo Transformations, West Windsor Arts Center, Princeton Junction, NJ

2014 Identity, Loft 594 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

A Portrait Apart Deux, Porter Contemporary Gallery, Chelsea, NY

Primarily Red, Gallery U Boutique, Westfield, NJ

Manipulated Portraits (solo exhibit), The Station Bar and Grill, Garwood, NJ

Third Annual Juried Exhibit, RSI Bank, Rahway, NJ

Digital Photography Exhibit, Students of Peter Lester, Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ

2013 Strange Figurations, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY 

Toying with Art, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

Germinate: New Beginnings, Boricua College, New York, NY

Members’ Show (award for sculpture), Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, Unite Women.org, On Line Exhibit

2012 First Annual Juried Exhibit, RSI Bank, Rahway, NJ

Members’ Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ 

Community, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ

2011 Nexus Juried Exhibit, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ

Members’ Show (honorable mention), Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2010 Nexus Juried Exhibit, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ

Inclusion in Art Catalogs:

2014 Equilibrium: Art for a Changing World, Women’s Caucus for Art 

2013 Diaspora, Jewish Women’s Art Network, Women’s Caucus for Art

Bound, Women’s Caucus for Art

Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, Women’s Caucus for Art

Education:

2016 M.A. in Studio Art, Kean University

1991 M.A.T. in Art Education (5-12), Tufts University and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1989 B.A. in Studio Art, Kenyon College