Janine hall
REAL
Headbones Gallery
March 22 - May 10, 2025
Exhibition Catalogue
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Okanagan Group Exhibition
Headbones Gallery
May 31 - August 5, 2025
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REAL
Featuring
Janine Hall
March
22 -
May 10, 2025
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Reality is shared between all of us and yet is also very
individual – “your reality is not mine”. The various
individual takes on what constitutes reality are not
seriously oppositional viewpoints, seldom as fierce a
contest as right or wrong. Reality, for most of us, is
experienced from similar relational perspectives. In
terms of the visual arts, a 'realist' looks at the world
as it appears and then makes of that appearance an
object, which in Janine Hall's case is a painting. This
involves the artist's technical, intellectual and
creative capitol that is then offered to the world to be
received and interacted with as a different appearance,
a new reality.
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For Janine Hall a major genre is portrait painting and
here there is a reading of one individual by another,
the artist, who shapes a new conceptual realization of
her subject. This is usually a transactional part of the
creation between the sitter and the painter. And then
the artist, Janine Hall, brings to bear her artistry to
that which seems to appear to her. When the full scope
of this process is understood, the miracle of
accomplishing 'a likeness' is a miraculous feat indeed.
Janine also paints still life paintings where she
incorporates historical paintings, contemporary
photographs, objects that may assume a personal
significance such as her repeated use of ribbons, and in
the painted interpretation the physical world where we
are used to operating becomes somewhat skewed. This
suggests new meanings to the objects without
relinquishing the objective truth of the subject matter.
It opens the mind of the painter to the perception of
the viewer and a deeper communication between the two is
possible.
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Janine Hall’s landscapes where the weather is the main
character upon the earthly stage also hits on an
essential aspect of the human reaction to physical
existence. Here is where the work becomes metaphysical –
that step away from elements, reason, and logic into a
suggestion of other worlds behind the physical veil.
These paintings, beautiful in their foreboding, sublime
and beyond absolute comprehension, hold within their
physical forms a bow to disappearance, to death and
destruction, to appearances that begin and also end.
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Headbones Gallery is also showing a series of Janine
Hall's paintings of Tarot Cards, images of the Minor
Arcana, visuals that come loaded with associations –
deeper for the initiated, seductive for the curious,
aesthetic for the art junkies. Still using realism in
her depictions but in composition and narrative drifting
into surrealism, these pieces are a composite portrait
of artist, reality as we communally know it and specific
metaphysical knowledge.
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A simple title -REAL that carries a full impact due to
the masterful execution of Janine Hall.
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