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Barbara Januszkiewicz (born February 23, 1955) is an American painter, artist's filmmaker and a creative activist who is best known for her stylistic independence; however, has associations with the pop art movement, conceptual art and avant-garde elements. She specializes in watercolor painting in a hybrid style that blur the line between drawing and painting. Her 21st-century works on paper to date is the truest of hybrid style by crossing two central elements of American postwar art: color field painting and Abstract expressionism.〔(Barb Januszkiewicz, "Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities." )〕 Her artwork has appeared predominantly in the Washington, D.C. area, including the Phillips Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Gallery K and The Art League. Her works can also be found in feature magazines, films, cable and international television formats. Januszkiewicz is the founder of "Art in the Heart", grant programs for the promotion of the arts in the community, 1999. From 2001–2012 she was a watercolor instructor and adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. Her newest work has been in collaboration with other artists in reinventing how one interprets art, music and creative thinking. 2012 she became the first visual artist in residency for The American Jazz Museum, Kansas City. Januszkiewicz lives in Arlington, Virginia yet has formed strong connections with jazz masters like Dave Liebman and Matthew Shipp who are New York based.〔(Jazz Vision Trio Dave Liebman, Jean-Marie Machado & Barbara Januszkiewicz Eric watson Dave Liebman, Jean-Marie Machado & Barbara Januszkiewicz )〕〔(Barbara Januszkiewicz Quotes – BrainyQuote )〕 Januszkiewicz says, "Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities." ==Avant-garde filmmaker== NYC Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp and Januszkiewicz have been working on a collaborative conceptual avant-garde project film soon to be released in 2013.〔(The Composer: Matthew Shipp & Barb Januszkiewicz Film/art by Barbara Januszkiewicz/ Matt Shipp — Kickstarter )〕〔http://www.thecomposer.info〕 The Composer project is a unique artistic and musical collaboration, combining multisensory experiences from dazzling cinematography to the juxtaposition of atmospheric sounds with the carefully composed piano score. This project presents an incredible auditory and visual storytelling experience, devoid of the hindrances of language or unnecessary conversations to distract the viewer from the compositions. In 1997 Januszkiewicz started showing her film shorts on a public-access television in a series that showcased artists and their works from the greater Washington Metropolitan Area ''Creative Vision Television for the Arts''. Key documentaries include ''Hilda Thorpe, in her own words''〔(Ms. Hilda Thorpe interview (text) )〕 a documentary of an independent-spirited member of the Washington Color School, Thorpe being one of the only women to be part of this avant-garde school which use color to united all the artists.〔"http://users.erols.com/januszkb/cvtv7.html〕 See text, Washington Review Volume XXV1 No.June 1/July 2000. Another documentary, ''Remembering The Present'', was filmed in the Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C.,〔 *http://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/citypiece.asp/〕 in July 2000. This showcased an exhibition that would be part of The Kreeger Museum’s citywide initiative, DC Citypiece: Monuments at the Millennium. Jack Rasmussen, curator of this show, said "The proposals exhibited in ''Remembering the Present'' had to meet only two criteria: quality and relevance. The artists were not asked to memorialize the past because the past isn't what it used to be (and never was) and the “universal” is as changeable as the past, a matter of perspective, not truth. Artists cannot escape the present, any more than their patrons. Remembering the Present takes advantage of this fact, asking artists to communicate the present thorough their ability to create relevant cultural metaphors." A controversial Creative Vision television documentary was a traveling roadshow from Boston called ''The Museum of Bad Art'' (MOBA). This was the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms. Since 1994, the Museum of Bad Art〔(Creative Vision: list of programs )〕 has been dedicated to bring the worst of art to the widest of audiences. Januszkiewicz saw the opportunity to show the satire of the whole thing. The documentary captured pseudo art patrons as they attended the gallery opening. The remarks that were filmed was based on sarcasm and mocking the art. The exhibit captured the attention of the media and brought in more visitors to the show. The ironic nature of the show seems to be lost on most of the attendees. The Creative Vision documentary captured raw conversations of people mesmerized by the artwork. The MOBA founders were criticized .〔(3.07: Scans )〕 for being anti-art, but they deny this by stating that its collection is a tribute to artists who persevered with their art despite something going horribly wrong in the process〔(The Left's Top 25 Journalists – The Daily Beast )〕 Deborah Solomon, in ''The New York Times Magazine'', asserted that MOBA's success reflects a trend in modern art among artists and audiences.MOBA has been used in academic studies as a standard of reference for the spectacularly awful. In one such study, published in,〔''Perspectives on Psychological Science''〕 researchers asking about how one feels about bad art. This documentary MOBA was broadcast on public access cable television for over 8 years straight, again a testimony to the mockery that bad art gets more respect then fine art, Januszkiewicz explains. After completing her first three documentaries out of 20 she was named Producer of the Year by Arlington Independent Media. Creative Vision TV for the Arts was remixed in 2010 to help highlight creative activists, who are using art outreach to create positive change in the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Januszkiewicz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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