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Chesterfield MO United States
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As a student at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1972, the desk in my dorm room sat facing the East River and lower Manhattan. Every day I watched the cranes lift the twin towers of the new WTC steadily upward. It was exciting to watch and, of course, I never imagined its ultimate destiny. Oddly enough, the painting in this link was begun on the 3rd of September 2001. It was intended to capture the haziness of spent jet fuel below an ascending airplane. My son had just flown out to Canada for school that day and I was feeling sad. I finished the painting on the 12th. What rose to the surface was very different from my original intention. It was as though the painting had taken charge and let me come along for the ride. "As on the Wings of a Dove" is dedicated to all those souls who lost their lives on that day, all those people whose hearts and lives were broken and the many rescuers who showed us unparalleled courage.
100 prints of this painting were taken to NYC and distributed to victims' families in the weeks that followed as a prayer for God's healing.
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Bio
Janice Schoultz Mudd is a mixed media painting and collage artist whose award winning work has been recognized in numerous regional, national and international juried art competitions. Janice’s paintings may be described as contemporary landscape based explorations at the intersection of the figurative and the abstract and gives voice to the spiritual and temporal confluence of the world we inhabit.
What makes these paintings so special is a luminous quality to the color that draws one’s eye around the canvas in a satisfying movement, and her unique interpretation of “landscape”. Each painting contains many layers of acrylic color glazes that give an apparent depth to the surface; Textural elements are incorporated through the addition of materials and objects, and by subtraction of surface using scratching, scraping and writing. Look at a distance and look up close; there is much to be seen and experienced at both levels.
A native of the small town of New Vernon, New Jersey and long time resident of White Plains in Westchester County, NY, Janice is a graduate from the schools of interior design and architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Skills honed from years of practice in these fields are reflected in her work today. And yes…she misses the ocean….and the city.
The artist moved to the St. Louis region in 1998 with her husband and two sons after six years residence in the Washington DC area. St. Louis is now her home base studio and exhibit area.