Janet Amiri, Tempe area award-winning sculptor and popular instructor, is best known for her life-size portraits. Sculpted first in clay, then cast in bronze, her works are exhibited in the L.A. area, New York and in Scottsdale, AZ.
“Sculpting a portrait or figure in clay, followed by the lost wax process and producing a final work in bronze, has been a huge part of my life for over 2 decades. As much as I love sculpting for personal reasons, I equally love teaching people how to sculpt. Whether it’s a trip to the foundry to check a wax or patina, teaching a class, or finishing the texture on a clay original, some part of my day is usually spent on art.”
In college Janet paid special attention to the Renaissance artists and, as a double major in studio arts and art history, became intent on visiting all the prominent Renaissance museums of the world. Within months of graduation, she could be found wandering the streets of Florence, Italy, astonished by the accessibility of public statues by Bernini, Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Pisano. The museum painters Botticelli, Caravaggio, Raphael and Tintoretto all embedded permanent images on her brain, inspiring ridiculously long journal entries, notebook sketches and becoming her internal guideposts to this day.
In the parallel universe of abstract art and masters of expressionism and cubism, Braque, Marini, Giacometti, Hepworth, Matisse and Moore turned her focus, igniting a different emotional response to her work. Janet's cubist stainless steel “Family”, and abstract bronzes “Eternal Kiss” & “Dancing Queens” are examples of how those masters inspired her sculptures.
“What I wish to express with my sculptures is a tangible connection between the romantic intuit of Renaissance masters and the visionary, evocative spirits of contemporary artists. I aim to provoke an emotional reaction, sensory energy, and an instant bonding of human soul to stony metal through human touch.”
For current events and exhibitions head to Janet's Official Facebook page.
“Sculpting a portrait or figure in clay, followed by the lost wax process and producing a final work in bronze, has been a huge part of my life for over 2 decades. As much as I love sculpting for personal reasons, I equally love teaching people how to sculpt. Whether it’s a trip to the foundry to check a wax or patina, teaching a class, or finishing the texture on a clay original, some part of my day is usually spent on art.”
In college Janet paid special attention to the Renaissance artists and, as a double major in studio arts and art history, became intent on visiting all the prominent Renaissance museums of the world. Within months of graduation, she could be found wandering the streets of Florence, Italy, astonished by the accessibility of public statues by Bernini, Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Pisano. The museum painters Botticelli, Caravaggio, Raphael and Tintoretto all embedded permanent images on her brain, inspiring ridiculously long journal entries, notebook sketches and becoming her internal guideposts to this day.
In the parallel universe of abstract art and masters of expressionism and cubism, Braque, Marini, Giacometti, Hepworth, Matisse and Moore turned her focus, igniting a different emotional response to her work. Janet's cubist stainless steel “Family”, and abstract bronzes “Eternal Kiss” & “Dancing Queens” are examples of how those masters inspired her sculptures.
“What I wish to express with my sculptures is a tangible connection between the romantic intuit of Renaissance masters and the visionary, evocative spirits of contemporary artists. I aim to provoke an emotional reaction, sensory energy, and an instant bonding of human soul to stony metal through human touch.”
For current events and exhibitions head to Janet's Official Facebook page.
