NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Jane Masters is a local multimedia artist originally from Europe and the Caribbean. Her works in drawing, print-making, sculpture and installation collapse the distinction between the fine and decorative arts. Integrating hand rendering with industrial processes, she creates complex patterns, images and deadpan texts which address the human condition from a subtly feminist perspective. She has degrees from the College of William and Mary, the Kansas City Art Institute and San Jose State University. She has executed large, permanent commissions for the Chambers Hotel in Manhattan, the Burlington Woods Corporate Park in MA, and Fidelity Investments in both MA and RI. Most recently, Jane Masters has taught at Connecticut College, the Rhode island School of Design and Brown University. Among other exhibition venues, she has shown at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the RISD Museum, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Williams College Museum of Art. She has received grants from The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Berkshire Taconic Artsits Trust and the Vermont Council for the Arts. Her work was most recently represented by Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston and Jennifer Kostuick Gallery in Vancouver, Canada.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
The art of Jane Masters is multi-faceted, like the artist’s upbringing and education. Born in 1962 in London, Masters grew up in Europe and the West Indies, where her father owned a hotel. She received an undergraduate degree in art and art history from the College of William and Mary, a BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in sculpture from San Jose State University. Masters makes drawings, prints, art wallpaper and architectural installations; as large scale as her work can be, the hand is at the center as she explores the borders between abstraction and pattern. Masters has showed her work nationally and internationally, completed large installations for Fidelity Investments and the Chambers Hotel in Manhattan, and been an adjunct instructor at numerous schools.
Source: NetWorks 2011 – 2012 Catalogue
144 panels, nickel-silver plated etched brass, 18 ft. x 32 ft. x 1.5 in.
Courtesy Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, RI
Credits:
Video by:Richard Goulis
Edited by: Christian de Rezendes, Richard Goulis
Music by: Andrew Masters
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan, M.D.
Additional resources:
Artist’s website: janemasters.net
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
