Self Portrait 2008

VITAE

Janis Sawyer grew up among fabric swatches and Interior Design magazines, spent high school vacations with her father in New York City, creating color renderings for university libraries. She has a set of fancy French colored pencils still—­­somewhere. As an adult, Janis took off on a series of sojourns in small and preferably secluded places. The first of her many favorite years were spent on the side of a mountain in Germany with good friends, but not much money, no amenities, and two infant boys. She gave up what she considered a paradise and settled in her next favorite place, Coconut Grove, the Miami artists' Utopia of the '60s, but that magic would not last. Mourning the gentrification of her beloved Grove, Janis migrated to her next best place—­­early Seaside, where she delighted in the slap of the waves on the shore at night. Janis always craved an artistic outlet and worked variously in graphic design, as an editor of photos, poetry and short stories, and editor of the single edition Hogtown Hooter. The work was hers, but it was not her own creation until her husband supplied a digital camera, the notorious SpyCam of Forest Street. Janis was surprised by the views around the corner, down the street, at the foot of her bed, beyond the window behind her. Smitten with this newfound perspective, fascinated with the alternating motion and stillness of the camera and the nature of its output, she began capturing its revelations­—every edge, shape and shimmer of her environment. Her husband, Fred, finds new venues for the camera, and Janis, peeking around corners, continues to make digital photographs.

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"Between Here and There"

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"Florida"

"7 AM"

"Tree House  Madonna"

"Next Door"

"Petit Pan Pattypan"

Sawyer's work is available through the gallery as prints at 180. each. Prints are matted to 8" x 10" and printed on Epson Premium Luster Photo Paper with an Epson Professional Printer using archival inks.

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