ARTIST STATEMENT

After a Catastrophe what remains are ruins which are all that is left to tell the story of what once was. Over time, the ruins take on a patina, a form and an expression which both dignifies and reduces history to an essence that startles and brings the viewer back to his own sense of timelessness and fragility. In my portraits and figures, my subjects are contorted by the hardship and struggles and the sheer biomorphic effort to transform pain into discovery of self.

BIOGRAPHY

Jeanet was seven when she was adopted by missionaries and brought to Lenox,Massachusetts. She spent her days running the streets, carrying cement blocks and diving for coins in the canals of Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Anything to buy food. At Parsons school of Design, the impressions and memories of her childhood bled into her paintings. Contextualized by her inquiry into the place of women in the human condition: the objectification of women through their sexuality: and motherhood. Reflecting the influence of Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele who used stylized sensuality and exquisite line to reflect contemporary pain, doubt, angst, longing, regret, shame, loss and beauty. Through her work, is searching for strength and structure in the human body, ravaged by life.

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