Janet Fish
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Janet Fish (born May 18, 1938) is a contemporary American realist artist.
Some of light bouncing off reflective surfaces, such as clear wrap containing solid objects and empty or partially filled glassware, she paints still life paintings.
Janet Fish is represented by the DC Moore Gallery in New York City.
Early life and education
Janet Isobel Fish was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on (1938-05-18) May 18, 1938, and she was raised in Bermuda, where her family moved when she was ten years old. She was surrounded by many artistic influences from a young age. Her father was a professor of art history, and her mother, Florence Whistler Voorhees, was sculptor and potter. Alida, her sister, is a photographer. Clark Voorhees, an American Impressionist painter, was her grandfather, whose Bermuda studio was located. Clark Voorhees, her uncle, and his wife, a painter, were among her uncles.
Fish knew from a young age that she wanted to explore the visual arts. "I came from a family of artists, and I always made art and wished to be an artist," she said. Fish was a natural ceramics artist, and she had aspired to be a sculptor from the start. Fish, as an adolescent, was an assistant in Byllee Lang's studio.
Fish studied at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, focusing on sculpture and printmaking. She worked with George Cohn, Leonard Baskin, and Mervin Jules. She spent one of her summers at the Art Students League of New York and took a painting class led by Stephen Greene. In 1960, Fish earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith. In 1961, a summer residency at The Skowhegan School of Art in Skowhegan, Maine, was followed by another.
Fish was enrolled at Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1960 to 1963. There, she changed her focus from sculpture to painting. Alex Katz, her art instructor for a beginner painting class, encouraged students to explore the exhibits in New York galleries, which increased Fish's knowledge of the art world. During this period, art schools tended to favor Abstract Expressionism teaching, which was responsible for Fish's burgeoning artistic style. She began to work in a new direction, claiming that "abstract Expressionism" didn't mean anything to me. It was a set of rules."
Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Brice Marden, Nancy Graves, Sylvia, and Robert Mangold were among her Yale classmates, as well as Rackstraw Downes. Fish was one of the first female students to obtain a Master of Fine Arts from Yale's School of Art and Architecture in 1963.
Life
Fish spent a year in Philadelphia and then moved to SoHo, where she met Louise Nevelson.
Fish was an art instructor at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons The New School for Design (both in New York City), Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York), and the University of Chicago.
Fish had two short-lived marriages, which she claims were in part due to her high aspirations and her reluctance to be a "good conventional housewife." She lives and paints in her SoHo, New York City loft, and her Vermont farmhouse in Middletown Springs.