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DESCRIPTION
Monoprint and inkjet on paper
8.5 x 11 in
2024
This series of prints arises from the belief that there is always light inside the darkness. I created these monoprints by looking at pictures of chandeliers in various rooms of the White House and printed them on heavily annotated pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
BIO
Jana Harper is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates truth, trauma, and the human condition through a variety of visual media. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she received an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, a BA in Political Science and Studio Art from The Evergreen State College, and completed the Core Fellowship Program at the Penland School of Crafts. Since 2006, she has regularly attended workshops and residencies led by the artist–educator duo Rosenclaire. Recent awards include a fellowship at the Corporation of Yaddo, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Current Art Fund Award from Tri-Star Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation, the inaugural Tennessee Triennial, a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 13th Havana Biennial. Harper’s work is held in several public collections, including the Library of Congress, the Sackner Archive for Visual and Concrete Poetry, the J.S. Blanton Museum, Proyecto Ace Print Collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. Jana lives in Nashville, TN, where she teaches in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University.
DESCRIPTION
Monoprint and inkjet on paper
8.5 x 11 in
2024
This series of prints arises from the belief that there is always light inside the darkness. I created these monoprints by looking at pictures of chandeliers in various rooms of the White House and printed them on heavily annotated pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
BIO
Jana Harper is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates truth, trauma, and the human condition through a variety of visual media. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she received an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University, a BA in Political Science and Studio Art from The Evergreen State College, and completed the Core Fellowship Program at the Penland School of Crafts. Since 2006, she has regularly attended workshops and residencies led by the artist–educator duo Rosenclaire. Recent awards include a fellowship at the Corporation of Yaddo, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Current Art Fund Award from Tri-Star Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation, the inaugural Tennessee Triennial, a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 13th Havana Biennial. Harper’s work is held in several public collections, including the Library of Congress, the Sackner Archive for Visual and Concrete Poetry, the J.S. Blanton Museum, Proyecto Ace Print Collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. Jana lives in Nashville, TN, where she teaches in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University.