Janis Cutler Gear
Born in Florida on April 1,1962.
Janis is a painter and ceramicist, who paints within carved and etched bas relief porcelain vessels as well as creating imaginative and observed idiosyncratic dreamlike imagery in Oil painting, Watercolor and egg tempera painting.
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University BFA in Painting 1984 minor in sculpture/ceramics
New York Academy of Art MFA in
Painting 1991
International School of Art ,Todi Umbria Italy 1988 Painting NY Studio School
Montclair State NJ Art Teacher K-12
Certified 1986
EXHIBITIONS
Shetland Museum United Kingdom
"From Foula and Beyond"
Drawings and watercolors observed and Imaginary
Landscape
1992
Recipient of Shetland Art Trust Grant
1992
Shetland Art Museum United Kingdom Scotland , "Portraits of Sheep"
Egg Tempera,acrylic and Oil
1995
Sally D Fransisco Gallery "Making Matters" Sculptural Vessal at Peter's Valley, Layton NJ
2018
Art at the Mill, Lafayette NJ
2008-2015
GALLERIES and RETAIL
American Folk Museum NYC 2008
An American Craftsman Gallery NYC
2009
Love Adorned NYC, Hamptons, Santa Monica 2011- 2015 , ceramic designer
Silvermine Galleries, New Caanan Connecticut 2018 to present
Peter's Valley Crafts Gallery, Layton NJ 2017 to present
Gordon Fine Arts Gallery, Westport Connecticut 2016 -2021
Blue Tree Store, Madison Ave NYC
Ceramic Designer 2017 to present
Amano Gallery, Lambertville NJ
Present
SELECTED FINE ART FESTIVALS
14 years experience
The Bruce Museum Fine Craft Show Greenwich CT,
Peters Valley Fine Craft Show Layton NJ
Brooklyn Museum Fine Art Show, NYC
Paradise Arts Festival, Boston Mass
Crafts at the Cathedral, St John the Divine, NYC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sugar Maples Art Center, Catskills
Pictorial Porcelain Workshop 2022
Peters Valley Craft School, Layton NJ
Wheelthrowing and Surface Design
2021
Art School at Old Church, Demerest NJ , Surface Design, Bas Relief, Painting in Underglazes and Wheel throwing
MULTIPLE AWARD RECIPIANT
Best in Show at Peters Valley Craft Festival
Bruce Museum Arts Festivals Greenwich CT
Norwalk Arts Festival
TRAVEL/ ART EXCURSIONS
Nova Scotia Maritime Provinces 1984
Trinidad and Tobago 1986
Umbria, Florence, Rome Italy 1988
Cornwall, United Kingdom 1989
Shetland, Isle of Foula United Kingdom 1990-1996 Painted and live as a Sheep Crofter
Venice,Florence 2016
England United Kingdom 2023