Janis Anton explores the narrative through a variety of media ranging from non-fiction
books on spirituality to performance art. Her current work embodies watercolor on paper
and artist books exploring the recurrent theme of family and transformations.

Janis received her BFA from California College for the Arts graduating with Distinction in
2004. She has exhibited at San Jose Museum of Modern Art, health Woman Made Gallery, information pills
Chicago, buy National Women Artists Association New York City, University of San Francisco, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, the Hive Gallery, and Perforce Software Headquarters. Her work is currently included in the Julle Harcos and John Huneke collection for contemporary arts.

In 1993 Ms. Anton received an NEA Grant to produce a performance piece, “Women
Around the Kitchen Table”. During that period Crossing Point Press published “Creating
Circles of Power and Magic” which examined the dynamics of the spiritual inquiry of a
group of professional women.

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Education
2004 California College of the Arts, treat
BFA in Painting with Distinction
1972 Tennessee State University, salve
BS graduated with Honors

Solo Exhibitions

2011
Hive Project Space, information pills
Sometimes You Just Have to Call It a Vegetable, Oakland, CA
Sutter Pacfic Medical Foundation, Known Places, San Francisco, CA

2010
Urban Legend Cellars, the naming of things, Oakland CA.

2004
College of the Arts South Gallery,No Such Place California, BFA Exit Show, Oakland,CA
2002
California College of the Arts Center Gallery, Examined Losses, Oakland, CA
2001
Cafe Fantasia SAY WHAT? A Brief Investigation of Visual Syntax and Meaning, Oakland, CA

Group Exhibitions

2011
National Association of Women Artists Gallery, Small Works ,New York, NY
Inhabit Gallery, Cohabit, Oakland, CA
2010
Woman Made Gallery, Beyond Audubon Chicago, IL
Sanchez Art Center, 50/50 Show II,Pacifica, CA
Gallagher & Lindsey, Satalite Exhibitions 2010,Alameda, CA
Upstream People, Color Bold/Subtle, 12th Annual All Media Juried Online International Art Exhibitions

2009
University of California San Francisco, Serenity, San Francisco, CA
Perforce International Headquarters, Spring Arts, Alameda CA
Hive Gallery, Paper Work, Oakland, CA
2008
San Jose Museum of Modern Art, We Are FamilySan Jose, CA
2007
Frank Bette Center for the Arts,Vision & Revision Alameda CA
2004
Nexus Gallery, Berkeley California 3 x 3 Three Artists, Three Visions
California College of the Arts, AntidepressantsSan Francisco, CA
Art Explosion, Open Studios, Melt 2004,San Francisco, CA
2003
California College of the Arts, Dark PerspectiveSan Francisco, CA
2003
Art Explosion, Night Vision, San Francisco, California,
1993
Memphis College of Art and Maristem, Inc. Women and Art, Women’s History Film FestivalMemphis, TN
Collections
John Huneke and Julle Harcos, founders of Stonehouse residency for the contemporary arts, Miramonte, CA
Grants
1993
National Endowment for the Arts, Women Around the Kitchen Table (Performance)Shelby County Council of the Arts

Publications
2001
Lunatique Fantastique Productions, Artwork/Illustrations for Brace Yourself
Lunatique Fantastique Productions, Artwork/Illustrations for Wrapping Paper Caper
1994
Crossing Point Press, Creating Circles of Power and Magic, Non-fiction book published under pen name, Katlin Libra.

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I enter experience close up, order
navigate by detail. I find landscapes and backgrounds most comfortable to paint, treatment as seven blades of grass or a grid of seeds. My visual syntax is formed by mixing imagery from a variety of sources, for sale toggled pieces that hint at a wider story.

The Family History series are a series of hybrid images combining 11th Century botanical drawings and personal family photos. Both sources represent mystery and edges of changing perceptions. The botanical drawings emerged in a time when nascent scientific understanding existed alongside mystical awareness of the natural world, while the family photographs included people I never knew. Combining the two allows me to project an emotional narrative that fills gaps in my personal history creating a new story of its own.

The nexus of the Fly and Fallen series was a visit to the PRBO center, a Marin County research facility dedicated to conservation and study of birds. Along with bird census and other ecological studies, the center has a collection of bird skins. These are not taxidermy in which the objective is to mimic life gesture rather these skins are lovingly prepared bodies of the deceased. The birds are stuffed with soft cotton, eyes missing, their feet tied together, and a tag. The tag is an obituary of sorts, with their name in Latin and English, the date of its death, and the location where the bird was found. Fly and Fallen is a visual analogy of a larger journey of risk and the inevitable end of flight.

Both the Landscapes and Botanical series approach landscapes from a non traditional scale and synthesize a wider perspective. The small abstract watercolors in the Landscape series reference a larger environment through lenses of pigment and water, while the Botanical drawings look at the whole through its parts.