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Janie Samuels was born in Canandaigua, NY. She received her BA from Bennington College, Vermont, after having returned from studying a year in Southern France. She returned to France to live and paint, moving to New York City a year later. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

She has had four solo exhibitions, the most recent at Artspace in Richmond, Virginia, 2009 and several two-person exhibits, the most recent at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2021 .

She has been in over 100 group exhibitions in the United States and Southern France She participates in group exhibitions regularly at BWAC, Brooklyn, NY. She is a member of the Gowanus Artist, and Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artist Organizations.

From 1989 to 1994, she designed and built the sets and co-produced several plays written by her husband, Evan Gubernick, for Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway venues.

She had worked as Nancy Graves’s assistant from 1988 to 1994, at which time Graves passed away. Janie was the Studio Director until late 1996 when the Nancy Graves Foundation was established. She continued at the foundation for several years, at which point she was offered a position as Chuck Close’s Studio Manager. After seven years, she resigned her position in order to focus her attention fully on her own art career.

In discussing her oeuvre, Samuels describes her work as being simultaneously political and personal, universal and intimate. Her subject, inspired by political or moral concerns,. is derived from the media and personal photos. The work is intended to resonate on a more substantive and personal level. Technically, she is interested in how color, pattern, line and form break down abstractly and how she can manipulate them to create cohesive expressive qualities, such as rhythm and movement. She uses line and color so that the image works narratively and abstractly, and that the canvas has an intrinsic balance.

The photographic gel transfer and oil on panel and glass works are landscapes both urban and rural, an intimate portrait from every day life, and narrative images, both urban and social commentaries. The photographs are manipulated in Photoshop, printed and transferred to panels or glass, absorbed by the gel medium and the remaining paper stripped away. The panels are then painted.

The videos that have developed as an outgrowth from the paintings are a result of the overwhelming desire to have the paintings breathe, to create a sense of movement, and of life. This was originally the motivation for making a video of the progression of the painting from its beginning to completion, a kind of flip book. For the observer, the movie acts as an insight into the artist’s choices. It becomes experiential and offers the observer an opportunity to see the evolution of the work. The videos are intended to be mounted on the wall and to play alongside the hung painting.

You can view her videos at: vimeo.com/2986003
You can contact her: [email protected]

On the Move, 2021

$1,800

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No Words

$3,200

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Waiting in Limbo

$1,800

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Exodus

$2,200

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A Late Night Chat

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Summer Play

$3,200

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Hide and Seek

$1,500

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Helping Hands

$1,200

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Anybody Listening?

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Lean on Me

$2,500

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Amazing Grace

$2,500

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Diner Duo

$500

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Coney Island Getaway

$2,800

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In Reflection

$1,000

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Bali Beach Boys

$1,200

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un Bistro a Paris

$1,800

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We Are Men. Are We Not?

$4,000

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Live a Little

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Irish Jig

$3,200

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Sweet Tooth

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Forever Changed

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Game, Anyone?

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That Extra Something

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The American Dreamers

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The Unconsoled, 1998

$750

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Ode to Isabella

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Caps

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Tired Dreams

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Hoping for a Better Life, 2021

$950

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The Waiting Game

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Sunny Days Are Here Again

$175

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Silence Speaks

$350

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A Final EMbrace

$200

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Is It Safe Yet?

$200

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The Grotto

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Beach Texting

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Coney Island Ferris Wheel

$175

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A Painter in their midst

$100

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The Bucket

$100

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High Falls

$100

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In Limbo

$900

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Among Friends and Family

$350

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Boy

$50

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Asleep on the Train

$50

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asleep on the train

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Paris Gypsies

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Coney Island Bash

$175

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Musicians in the Park

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The Goalie

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The Lifeguard

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Hats

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Auntie Annes

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The Dugout

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The Pitcher

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Subway Musicians

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Subway Musician

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Sleeping Family on Subway

$275

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Autumn Pond

$350

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Ashokan Reservoir

$525

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Williamsburg Bridge at SUnset

$350

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Harbor

$275

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Niagara Falls

$275

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Greenwood in the Fall

$275

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George Washington Bridge in the Fog

$275

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Dinghy in Martha's Vineyard

$275

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Ashokan Boats on Shore

$275

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Hammock

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Fall Tree

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Reservoir Trees

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Boats at Ashokan

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Stranded boats

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Abandoned Boats

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Geese

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Ashokan Cropped

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Ashokan Geese

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Ashokan Reservoir

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Wild Flower at Ashokan

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Panoramic View

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Leaning Tree

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Mohonk Tree

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Winter Woodland

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The Tree in the Circle

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Tree at the Circle

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Fog Rolls In

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Botanic Gardens

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Coney Island reef

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reservoir beach

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wooded reservoir

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sunset reservoir

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Martha's Vineyard

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lighthouse

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twilight

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Through The Trees

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The Tree

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violet lily

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Lilies

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The Fallen Tree

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Nyack Reservoir

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Reservoir

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San Francisco Bay

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Lilypad

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The dock, Southampton

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The Pond

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Fisherman in the Bay

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Seals

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Chairs in the Shade

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TheLady's hand

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South St Seaport

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Calatrava Soars

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winged masterpiece

$325

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Manhattan Bridge

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Brooklyn Bridge Park

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View of Manhattan Bridge

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As seen through the Cables

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Brooklyn Bridges

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Empire State Building

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Bridge trio

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Williamsburg Bridge

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The Lady and the Junk

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Fairway Tram

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Williamsburg view from subway platform

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subway view of Williamsburg

$175

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The Subway Platform

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Central Park Window

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winter view

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central park trio

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sheep meadow fall

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Sleeps Meadow

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winter central park

$325

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F Train Platform

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trash cans on the beach

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Circle in a Square

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Wonder Wheel

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ferris Wheel

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Cyclone

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baseball billboard

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Parachute

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Coney Island Skyline

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Parachute Walkway

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Nathans, Coney Island

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Coney Island Sprinkler

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Rooftop

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Red Hook

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New York Harbor at Sunset

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Winter Pathway

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The Bus Stop

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Park Side in Winter

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Winter Wonderland

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Winter Lamp Post

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Prospect Park Winter Day

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Park at Night

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CP in Winter at Dusk

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South Street Abstracted

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Abstracted Bridge Trio

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Hazy Bridges

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BridgeFlag

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Brooklyn Bridge

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Harbour Boats

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Red Hook Ferries

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Glass Boat

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Lehigh

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Sign of Life

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Gowanus

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Red Hook Windows

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Copenhagen Windows

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Table for Two

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Copenhagen Store Front

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winter lampost

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Red Hook

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Waiting in Limbo

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Summer Play

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Lean on Me

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Amazing Grace

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No More Words

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Exodus

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