About Janine Al-Bayati
Artist's Statement / Selected Exhibitions PDF Print E-mail

“if you cut into the present, the future leaks out.”
- William S. Burroughs

Much of my work loosely revolves around broad concepts of time and chance. By layering drawings and paintings cut and recombined over time, I seek out emerging patterns from the multitude of possible outcomes when destroying and rebuilding a final image. 

 

Primary elements in these pieces include repeating circular shapes and drip webs which represent organic growth, colonies, and a multable quality to life. The act of cutting and reconstructing ‘pieces of a whole’ mirror what i see as a contemporary way of  understanding our increasingly complex world.



Selected Exhibitions

Hindsight2008

Cradle Project, Albuquerque, NM (June, 2008).

2007
Cut Boundaries, solo exhibition, HallSpace, Boston, MA (March - May, 2007).

2006
Size Matters, RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA (September - October, 2006).
Member’s Juried Show, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (June - August, 2006).

2005
I Protest, HallSpace, Boston, MA (November - January, 2006).

2004
Blue, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (November - January, 2005).
Necessary Dimensions, solo exhibition, NAO Project Gallery, Boston, MA (September - October).
Pause, four person exhibition, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA (Feb - March).
The 18th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA (January - March).

2003
Summer Group, NAO Project Gallery, Boston, MA (July - August).
Small Works 2003, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA (May).

2002
Visual Feast, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA (November - December).
3Elements, four person exhibition, Art Space, Maynard, MA (October - November).
Spirit in the Trees, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA (August - September).
Persona, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA (March - April).
Middle Eye, Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, Newton, MA (January - March).
Hot Colors, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (January - February).

2001
Selected Works Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (November - December).
Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA (September - October).
44th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY (June - July).
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA (June - July).
Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, .
Digital Art Competition, Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts @
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (April - August).
Modules, three person exhibition, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA (February - March).


EDUCATION

Master of Arts, Art Education
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1992.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting
University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1988.