Janet Fish - Into The Light - Exhibition

Vermont painter Janet Fish has spent much of her life exploring the action of light as it interacts with both translucent and reflective objects. Since the late 1960s, she has explored the subjects of still life and figure painting through bold compositions characterized by intense, dissolving color. Today, Fish is a leader in contemporary American realist painting, and her work may be found in public and private collections from Texas to Vermont.
Organized by the Southern Vermont Arts Center, this retrospective exhibition will also be featured at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Starting with Fish’s early Pop Art-inspired images of food and packaging, the exhibition will survey four decades of work and culminate in the artist’s most recent tabletop still-lifes. Fish herself will play a major role in selecting the works, which will number approximately thirty paintings and pastels borrowed from private collectors, museums and the artist’s own holdings.