I am a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, majoring in drawing and painting and etching, with further studies in fibre, clay, and photography resulting in mixed media gallery installations. http://www.jannyfraser.com |
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work deals with time as the vehicle of change and transformation visible in landscape and urban overviews. I use photography and photo-collage as part of these mixed media and porcelain mosaic constructions, contrasting human and natural habitats. Convex and concave mirrors, lenses and magnifying glasses draw the viewer into the pieces.
Mixed Media, Photography, and Porcelain Mosaic
The porcelain mosaics are imprinted with numbers, found objects, letters, and timepieces to suggest the fossil remains of traces left behind in the process of change, fracture, and transformation.
The porcelain mosaics are imprinted with numbers, found objects, letters, and timepieces to suggest the fossil remains of traces left behind in the process of change, fracture, and transformation.
The ongoing series of altered books provide a narrative, questioning the sustainability of high density urbanization, congested highways, as well as the loss of a sense of place as a result of globalization.
I use multiples and repetition of smaller works to create the elements of a larger installation.
COMMISSIONED PIECES
I have worked with clients and designers on specific commissioned pieces for buildings and private residences. Below are two examples, the first for a home in Youngstown, NY, and the second for a home on Lake Simcoe.
A series of mixed media panels for a contemporary home in Youngstown.
5' x 12' |
Clients home in Youngstown
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A series of mixed media panels for a contemporary home in Youngstown.
5' x 12' |
Mixed Media triptych for home on Lake Simcoe
RECENT WORK
Porcelain Mosaic, Natural stones, Slate, Metal, and Photography.
48" x 8", 2012 SOLD |
Porcelain Mosaic, Natural stones, Slate, Metal, and Photography.
48" x 8", 2012 SOLD |
Bell Jar Series
Earth Views I
Mixed Media, Acrylic on wood 12" x 24" x 6" Sold |
Earth Views II
Mixed Media, Acrylic on wood 12" x 24" x 6" Sold |
Earth Views III
Mixed Media, Acrylic on wood 12" x 24" x 6" Sold |
Late Day Sun - Diptych
Left Panel
Mixed Media, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography, Slate, Gold Leaf 2013 7.5" x 44" Sold |
Late Day Sun - Diptych
Mixed Media, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography, Slate, Gold Leaf 2013 17" x 44" Sold |
Right Panel
Mixed Media, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography, Slate, Gold Leaf 2013 7.5" x 44" Sold |
Landscape Memory Box
"Orchard" Sold |
"Sun Cycles"
Sold |
Niagara Landscape Memory Box
Sold |
FIBRE ART
Commission
Silk, Metal, and Silk-wrapped Branches |
"Branches"
Silk, Metal, and Aluminum branches Sold |
Silk and Metal Hanging
Sold |
"Dwellings"
Drawing on Silk Panel Available |
"Dragonflies"
Drawing on Silk Panel Sold |
"Orchard" Detail
Landscape Memory Box series Sold |
"Orchard" with stand
Sold |
"Late Day Sun" Detail
Landscape Memory Box Series |
"Late Day Sun" on Column
Sold |
"Butterfly Effect"
Sold |
"Through The Looking Glass"
Chair Sculpture Sold |
Recent Exhibition at the Holcim Gallery, Milton Centre for the Arts
"Human Edges" - A Mixed-Media Exhibition by Janny Fraser, Joyce Honsberger, and Mori McCrae, exploring the idea of edges.
January 27th to February 16th, 2014 at Holcim Gallery, Milton Centre for the Arts
Janny Fraser : "Edge of Change"
Joyce Honsberger : "Human Edges"
Mori McCrae : "Inner Edges"
"Horizon Line I" 45" x 7" Available
"Interconnected" - Installation
"Horizon Line II" 45" x 7" Available
"Placement", an installation at Cambridge Centre for the Arts, May-June 2015
“Placement”
My work deals with time as the vehicle for change and transformation. In my recent work, I am interested in both the process, and the alarming rate, of urbanization and globalization. These phenomena are changing our physical and psychic spaces. The world-wide shift to high-density urban centres, and the relocation of people from the land to the city or from one country to another, can cause the loss of a sense of rootedness and the loss of belonging to a place and culture. This process results in a relocation and re-invention of the self. I work with fragmented mosaics, using fractured imprinted porcelain sheets, found objects, and photography. The photographs are cut and altered to become part of the three-dimensional objects and panels that are placed as elements in gallery installations. |
“Placement – Displacement “
Word Poem Locate – Situate – Identify Scale – Scheme Structure Sequence Grouping – Positioning Place Compartment – Apartment Room - Niche – House – Home Residence – Habitat – Domicile – Dwelling Vicinity – Locality Village – Hamlet – City Distribution – Organization New Order Internal Space External Space Time, Place, and Memory Janny Fraser 2015 |
"Dwellings"
Light Sculpture: Mixed Media and Photography
Light Sculpture: Mixed Media and Photography
"Horizon Lines I, II, III"
Mixed Media, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography
Mixed Media, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography