TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Janet Purcell
Autumn Days, Long Beach Island
oil on canvas, 2020; 24″h x 30″w
Janet Purcell (www.janpurcellart.com) selected solo exhibits include a retrospective at the Trenton City Museum; Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ; the Gallery at Chapin, Princeton, NJ; Merrill-Lynch Corporate Headquarters, Plainsboro, NJ; AT&T Corporate Center, Hopewell, NJ; Dow Jones & Company, South Brunswick, NJ; Jewish Community Center, Trenton, NJ; and Bucks County Vineyards, New Hope, PA. Other invitational and juried exhibits include Art by Arts News Writers & Photojournalists, Trenton, NJ; Salmagundi Club, New York City; Lotus Club, New York City; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual, New York City; National Arts Club, New York City; The Gallery at Fells Point, Baltimore, MD; Nevada Art Association Open, Carson City, NV; Ellarslie Open II-IV, XII, XVI, XXIV, XXX, XXXIV, Trenton, NJ; Phillips Mill, New Hope, PA; Mercer County Artists, Trenton, NJ; New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA; D&R Greenway Land Trust, Johnson Education Center, Princeton, NJ; Capital Health Arts & Healing Gallery, Hopewell, NJ; United Jersey Bank Corporate Headquarters, Princeton, NJ; and McVicker, McVicker & Purcell, DeLann Gallery, Plainsboro, NJ. Selected awards include Purchase Award, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie; Award of Merit, Artist’s Welfare Fund, New York; Second Place, Artway Spaces & Places; Second Place, oils, Carrier Foundation; Hon. Mention, Wild NJ, NJ Audubon Society; Painting selected for label Vidal 1991 wine, Bucks Country Vineyard; Painting selected for label Seyval 1992 wine, Bucks Country Vineyard. Her curatorial work includes “Healing Art Stories,” Capital Health Arts & Healing Gallery.
Her work is included in the collections of the Trenton City Museum, Princeton University Computer Information Technology Ctr, Capital Health Systems, First Presbyterian Church of Hopewell, and the Myersville Inn. Her art writing includes a weekly fine arts column for The Times of Trenton, Arts & Leisure features for The Times of Trenton, Woman’s Day special interest publications, and Design NJ magazine. Purcell has also written fiction, including Singer Lane, Author House, US; The Long Way Home, Sunpenny Publications, Great Britain & Spain; Rooster Street: Legacy of a Runaway Slave, Sunpenny Publications.
“In my painting and my writing, I try to capture the way the spirit colors and clothes my surroundings and to celebrate the joy that colors the commonplace when it is seen with new awareness.”