About
JANET LAGE is a contemporary visual artist born 1955, in Fall River, Maine who studied at University of Maine, Maine Film Alliance and Hartford Art School. She lives in the New York Metropolitan area with a base studio in Old Lyme, Connecticut. She travels to the West Indies yearly and paints in her Ocho Rios Jamaica workspace. In 2010 she was awarded a Connecticut Artist Fellowship Award for painting, for the years 2010-2011. Her work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections and has been a recipient of multiple competition awards jurored by senior curators from the MOMA, Guggenheim, Whitney and other national museums.
Exhibition
SOLO SHOWS
2014 EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Ct, Out of Line William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, TRASHED
2013 The Orison Project, Essex, CT, TRASHED
2012 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Recent Paintngs William-Scott Gallery,Provincetown, MA, STICK IT
2011 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, HOSE ME EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, STICK IT
2010 William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Hose Me
2007 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Laid Rubber Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme,CT, Tie Me Down
2006 Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Leaners and Hangers
2004 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, Landscape
2002 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art,New Paintings
2000 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, The C Word
1995 Viridian Gallery, New York, NY, Mixed Landscape
1991 Queens College Art Center, Queens, NY, Between Something and Nothing Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT, Between Something and Nothing
1988 Bratton Gallery, New York, NY, Yesturday I Found My Soul
1986 Cummings Art Center, Connecticut Collage, New London, CT, Illuminated Paintings Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, Illuminated Paintings
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011 Housatonic Museum of Art, SLASH, group exhibition
2000 Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT (Juror: Lauren Ross, White Columns Gallery, NY, NY, NEW ART ANNUAL 2000)
1997 Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT Solo Show Award (Juror: Ann Philbin, Director of The Drawing Center NY, NY, New Art Annual 1997)
1996 Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT 4 Winners Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT (Juror: Jill Snyder, Director of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, New Art Annual 1996)
Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT( Juror: Dorothy Mayhall, Director, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT, Connecticut Art)
1989 Warwick Museum, Warwick, RI, Spending Our Children's Inheritance Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT (Curator: Dorothy Mayhall, Director,Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT,Nature as Image in Contemporary Art)
AWARDS
2010 Connecticut Artists Fellowship Grant in Painting 3rd Juried Showcase Award, Artslant dot Com
2007 78th Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Exhibition (Juror, Donna Burton, Cash Award)
2003 74th Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Exhibition Speedball Award (Juror: Fereshteh Daftari, Co-Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY)
1998 Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT,Solo Show Award (Juror: Ann Philbin, Director of The Drawing Center NY, NY NEW ART ANNUAL ’97)
1994 Viridian GALLERY, New York, NY, Solo Show Award (Juror: Diane Waldman, Senior Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY, Mixed Landscape)
COLLECTIONS
Aetna Corporate Collection
CPI Corporate Collection
Yale New Haven Hospital Public Collection
Private National and International Collections
2014 EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Ct, Out of Line William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA, TRASHED
2013 The Orison Project, Essex, CT, TRASHED
2012 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Recent Paintngs William-Scott Gallery,Provincetown, MA, STICK IT
2011 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, HOSE ME EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, STICK IT
2010 William-Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Hose Me
2007 EO Art Lab, Chester, CT, Laid Rubber Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme,CT, Tie Me Down
2006 Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, Leaners and Hangers
2004 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, Landscape
2002 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art,New Paintings
2000 University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, The C Word
1995 Viridian Gallery, New York, NY, Mixed Landscape
1991 Queens College Art Center, Queens, NY, Between Something and Nothing Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT, Between Something and Nothing
1988 Bratton Gallery, New York, NY, Yesturday I Found My Soul
1986 Cummings Art Center, Connecticut Collage, New London, CT, Illuminated Paintings Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, Illuminated Paintings
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011 Housatonic Museum of Art, SLASH, group exhibition
2000 Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT (Juror: Lauren Ross, White Columns Gallery, NY, NY, NEW ART ANNUAL 2000)
1997 Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT Solo Show Award (Juror: Ann Philbin, Director of The Drawing Center NY, NY, New Art Annual 1997)
1996 Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT 4 Winners Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT (Juror: Jill Snyder, Director of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, New Art Annual 1996)
Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT( Juror: Dorothy Mayhall, Director, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT, Connecticut Art)
1989 Warwick Museum, Warwick, RI, Spending Our Children's Inheritance Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT (Curator: Dorothy Mayhall, Director,Stamford Museum and Nature Center,Stamford, CT,Nature as Image in Contemporary Art)
AWARDS
2010 Connecticut Artists Fellowship Grant in Painting 3rd Juried Showcase Award, Artslant dot Com
2007 78th Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Exhibition (Juror, Donna Burton, Cash Award)
2003 74th Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Exhibition Speedball Award (Juror: Fereshteh Daftari, Co-Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY)
1998 Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT,Solo Show Award (Juror: Ann Philbin, Director of The Drawing Center NY, NY NEW ART ANNUAL ’97)
1994 Viridian GALLERY, New York, NY, Solo Show Award (Juror: Diane Waldman, Senior Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY, Mixed Landscape)
COLLECTIONS
Aetna Corporate Collection
CPI Corporate Collection
Yale New Haven Hospital Public Collection
Private National and International Collections