The paintings of Janey Saavedra consist of spontaneous strokes, one built upon the other. Riding the rails between skill and expression with an ever evolving painting style, she strives to capture the truthful nature of the subject that has caught her interest.
The artist is currently attracted to found roadside dwellings that lie somewhere between the order of functionality and the chaos of decay. Typically abandoned, they represent a once viable era, occupation, or home that is either no longer sustainable or needed by the greater population. Although others may consider these structures as repugnant to an otherwise pristine landscape, the artist sees the layers of decomposition and the pattern of decay as the spirit of place.
As an unpretentious subject matter, these places always require an abrupt U-turn while traveling the slow roads of the Western United States in a 1986 VW Vanagon. Her fascination of these places stem from the memory of the simple home Janey once lived in with her grandmother.
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Drawing and Painting
School of Art, California State University Long Beach, CA
Select Group Exhibitions:
2023, Fourth Annual “LPAPA Squared” All Member Show 2023
2020, “The Sketchbook Show,” Flatline Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2019, “Therefore I Am,” OC Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2017, Shifting Tempo, Max L. Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2013, All Media, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2010, All Media, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
Affiliation:
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association