JANICE ROWELL GALLERY  
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Artists
blown art glass John Cook
Cliff Goodman
Ingrid & Ken Hanson
Dale Heffernan
Smyers Glass
ceramics Catherine Merrill
  Janice Rowell
fine jewelry Mylene Bernard
Opera Alley Designs
Ann Wallach
graphite objects A. S. Batle
mixed media Susan Hersey
mobiles Timothy Rose
oil paintings Annette Poitau
  Gregory Vasgerdsian
serigraphs Michael Guerriero
textiles Michael Kensinger
wire drawings Sten Hoiland
Janice Sullivan
From ancient time to present day, textiles have been incorporated into ritual and ceremony in all world cultures.

The concept of woven cloth as a symbol of celebration and an element of ritual has been an initial focal point of inspiration in my work. My intentions are to create textiles that are ceremonial in their own right. Through an abstract approach using the repeated imagery of pleats, and complex multi-patterned weave structures, I explore the textile's essential nature. By exploring reflective material in conjunction with manipulated surfaces, constantly changing colors are created in these light reflective textures that create an aura of myth, magic, drama and transcendence to the work.

The landscape of natural and constructed environments and the effect of time upon these surfaces inspire the abstract imagery in my textiles. I am interested in the architectural nature of textiles, geometric form, organized grid, and surface texture created through the manipulation of structural and technical components. Reflective surfaces of modern architecture decay in older structures, as well as the organic surfaces of the earth created over time are sources of inspiration to me. These ceremonial fabrics are vehicles that transport the viewer through time. Their historical reference is intended to be ambiguous; they could be artifacts of an ancient age or remnants of a future generation we have not yet discovered.