Janet Rickus
Artist Bio Artist Work
Janet Rickus is meticulous in her approach to the still life compositions she renders in oil on canvas and panel. Mostly self-taught, Rickus has applied her deft hand to painting the forms of fruits, vegetables, vessels, and linens arranged on shelves for over a decade. She does not alter the shapes, sizes, or tones of the objects before her in the studio, choosing rather to accurately capture their natural permutations. Carefully composed according to form and color, the objects assume personalities that convey a study of personal relationships and attitudes. The stilled objects become animated, turning toward and seeming to gaze at one another, instilling the work with a unique and contemporary take on the history of the still life.
Rickus received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Painting in 2006. Her work has been shown in galleries across the northeast, including Hoorn-Ashby in New York, and was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA in 2001. Rickus lives and works in Great Barrington, MA.
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One-Person Exhibitions
2009 Janet Rickus, Figure & Form, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2007 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Selected Works: 1993–2001, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
2000 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2008 Hot Spit, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
2008 Paintings by Award-Winning Massachusetts Artists, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA
2007 We Were Here, We Were There, Leslie Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA
2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grantwinners Exhibition, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2002 Loss and Ardor, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
2001 The Discerning Eye, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Waiting List, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
1999 USArtists ’99, The 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA
1998 USArtists ’98, The 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1997 USArtists ’97, The 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA
1996 USArtists ’96, The 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1994 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Rehs Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Three Women in a Caboose, Paris–New York–Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
1991 Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
Awards
2006 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Painting