Janet Kuhlman
medium: painting
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 Calligraphic Grate 2003 Painting |
 Ice Riff on Lake Monona 2003 Painting |
 Meditation Grid 2003 Painting |
 Wave Particles 2003 Painting |
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Contact information
Artist resides in: Madison, WI
Email Address: jkuhlman@facstaff.wisc.edu
Artist statement
The Zen of Concrete
My work is inspired by the urban landscape and the ironic interplay between man-made elements and the lyrical forces of nature.
I have submitted a series of "Sidewalk and Grid Paintings."
Through minimalist abstraction, my work invites the viewer to contemplate ordinary sidewalks, grates and grids for insights into the ephemera of existence.
In the grid paintings, I challenge the audience to meditate on a paradox--at first, all the squares seem the same, but on closer, more intimate inspection, each square is unique unto itself. Like an answer to a Zen koan, the grid paintings are a Cartesian metaphor for seeing the universal and the particular of life at the same time.
Biography
EDUCATION
B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1976)
M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1981)
M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison (2000)
Special Student in Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2000-2003)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"U Bite It," Art Bite, Fall Gallery Night, Madison, WI, October 3, 2003
"Three Artists," Wisconsin Union Theater, Alumni Awards Program. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2003
"Appropriation Show," 7th Floor Gallery, George L. Mosse Humanities Building,
University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2001
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