Janet Moore
Invitation III 42 in x 42 in
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Born in Ottawa, Janet Moore studied at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario and the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Colombia.
Solo Shows include:
Ten Weeks – a visual diary, at the Odd Gallery in Dawson City;
Above Ground, semi-abstracted landscapes, at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse
and the Prince George Public Art Gallery, British Columbia;
Janet Moore/Recent Work, Gallery One – the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Moore’s group exhibitions include:
The Kluane Expedition, held concurrently at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon and at the McMichael Museum in Kleinberg, Ontario;
Bulldozer (group exhibition of Yukon artists’ work) exhibited at the SAW Gallery in Ottawa, Ontario and also at The Works Visual Arts Festival in Edmonton, Alberta.
The Canadian Publishing House, Oberon Press has selected Moore’s paintings for 15 book covers.
Her work has been included in the Canada Council Art Bank, the Yukon Permanent Art Collection, The Yukon Arts Centre Collection, and the City of Whitehorse Art Collection and in numerous private art collections across Canada. She has received a number of art awards from the Canada Council and the Yukon Territorial Government’s Advanced Artist’s Award Programme. Moore’s most recent show – a collaborative exploration of the vessel with clay artist Samantha Dickie, entitled Elusive Containment, opened in September 2005 at the Yukon Arts Centre.
Since then she has moved away from the Yukon and returned to Ontario. Janet Moore now lives in the upper Ottawa Valley and continues to make mixed media/acrylic paintings in her rural studio
