Janny Fraser

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

Gallery Installations

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 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

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

Nocturne I

Nocturne II

Porcelain Mosaic, Natural stones, Slate, Metal, and Photography.
48" x 8", 2012 SOLD

Orchard

Porcelain Mosaic, Photography, Gold Leaf
2013 48" x 10" x 6"
Sold

Puzzle Pieces

Porcelain Mosaic, Metal, Photography
2013 45" x 9.5"
Sold

Sun Cycle Mandala

Acrylic, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography
2012 36" dia
Sold

Book of Days

Altered Book, Porcelain Mosaic, Photography
2012 10" x 6.5" x 1.5"
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"
Available

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"
Available

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

"Orchard" with stand
Available

"Late Day Sun" Detail
Landscape Memory Box Series

"Late Day Sun" on Column
Available

"Butterfly Effect"
Available

"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"

"Globalization - Children" - Installation

"Horizon Line I" 45" x 7" Available

"Interconnected" - Installation

"Horizon Line II" 45" x 7" Available

"Late Day Sun I" - Book Sculpture
Available

"Bird's Eye View" and "Overview"
Available

"Late Day Sun II" - Book Sculpture
Available

"Horizon Line III" and "Altered Book Series I, II
Available

"At the Still Point of the Turning Day" - Chair Sculpture
Sold

"Highways" - Vertical Panel
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