Artists

Janice Tayler

Education & Formation

1963
Born — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1990
BA Honours, Theatre and Dance — University of Winnipeg
1993–2000
Professional dancer — Montreal, QC
Ballet and modern dance, choreography
2004
BFA With Distinction, Painting and Drawing — Concordia University
Montreal, QC. Francis Bacon discovery → abstraction
2008–09
Slide presentations — McGill University
History of Modern Art · History of Modern Dance
2005–
Teacher of painting, drawing and mixed media workshops
USA and Canada

Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Wading Through Cracks In Gravity" — 1515 Lincoln Gallery
Oklahoma City, OK
2023
"Mavi Contemporary Art" solo — Gig Harbor, WA
2022
"Layered Suspensions In Fragmented Space" — Objets Trouvés
Oklahoma City, OK
2017
"Blueprints For A Splintered Sun" — Morso Gallery
Gig Harbor, WA
2013
"New Works" — Gallery Lacosse, Winnipeg, MB
2012
"Articulated Fragments" — Warehouse Artworks, Winnipeg, MB
2004
"Gestures of Fragmental Shifting" — Zeke's Gallery, Montreal, QC

Selected Group & Awards

2025
"Fractured Forms" — Woodward Contemporary, San Diego, CA
2025
"Open to Interpretation" — JG Art Gallery + Events, Bainbridge Island
2023
Spotlight Exhibition — Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
2017
Prince Street Gallery — New York City, NY
2015
3rd place, Daniel Smith Award — juried group painting show, Seattle, WA
2009
Travel Scholarship — The Artists Project, Toronto, ON
2001
Millennium Scholarship Fund — Concordia University

Current Representation

Gallery
Ryan James Fine Art Gallery — Kirkland, WA
Gallery
1515 Lincoln Gallery — Oklahoma City, OK
Gallery
Warehouse Artworks — Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Gallery
JG Art Gallery + Events — Bainbridge Island & Park City
Collections
Private and commercial collections — United States, Canada, Europe

Memberships

Member
Women Painters of Washington
Member
Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters
Member
Peninsula Art League — Gig Harbor, WA
Annual
Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour — Olalla, WA
2023, 2024, 2025

Practice

Medium
Oil paint, newspaper collage, sand on canvas
Charcoal, varnish, image skin transfer also used
Source
Photographs of demolished structures — bridges, industrial sites, decaying buildings
Juxtaposed with abstracted rocks, roots, trees, water
Influences
Francis Bacon · NY Abstract Expressionists · Anselm Kiefer
Dance gestural vocabulary — 20 years of professional movement

Selected Works

Threaded Remnants by Janice Tayler
Threaded Remnants by Janice Tayler
Passageways Parted by Janice Tayler
Passageways Parted by Janice Tayler
Under Dipped Currents by Janice Tayler
Under Dipped Currents by Janice Tayler
Tracing The Winged Energy of Delight by Janice Tayler
Tracing The Winged Energy of Delight by Janice Tayler
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