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.....Jane Krensky's uncanny eye captures simple truths in delightful yet haunting images of everyday people going about their lives. Whether pure black and white or hand-colored, her silver gelatin prints draw the viewer into a unique world of the street. By freezing a moment of reality as it unfolds, each photo evokes a powerful sense of familiarity.
.....Humorous, quirky and always moving, Krensky's photographs of small town parades, rodeos, circus performers, and bathing beauties enhanced by her unique hand-coloring process reveal an artist of unique vision. A gritty tenement with bright, colorful sheets billowing on its clothesline in New York Wash speaks poignantly of the human spirit. Women circus performers balancing on huge orange balls gives us Women With Balls, a new view of feminism. And in Coffee Klatch, macho cowboys wearing identical denim "uniforms" and ten-gallon hats, Krensky has slyly tinted in unmanly pastel shades of pink, green, and yellow.
.....Using a wide-angle lens with a 35mm Nikon, Ms. Krensky is as at home prowling the neighborhoods of Paris, New York, and London as she is driving America's back roads and camp grounds in search of her subjects.
.....A professional photographer for over twenty-five years, her work has been represented by galleries in New York and Los Angeles as well as featured in many magazines. Currently, she is represented by The Susan Spiritus Gallery in Orange County, California, Schwartz-Colburn in Los Angeles, and Jim Funk Gallery in Perrysberg, Ohio. She has been honored with several one-woman shows at Bloomingdale's in New York, and her Sonoma studio is a favorite stop on many San Francisco-based art tours. Listed among her corporate collectors are Coca-Cola Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Security Pacific National Bank, Boston University, Taco Bell Corporation, and Universal Studios. Among those private collectors drawn to her unusual style are Bruce Willis, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Keaton, Clint Black, and Lisa Hartman.
....."Jane is at her best when she finds the humor in her subjects, achieving a laugh with just the right touch of outrageous color," says Tim Fish of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. "The absurdity . . . would do Fellini proud."
.....Says the artist herself, "When we look into the eyes of a stranger, we always see something of ourselves."
Jax Peters Lowell .
Jane was educated at the Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts, Boston, MA. |
