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