| Jan Cook is a visual artist who works with photo-based imagery. Her work explores ideas that tie us together in our humanity; the dreams, fears and memories that run through our collective unconscious. Her constructed realities uncover threads often obscured by our rational minds. She studied and worked in Mexico and that experience had a big influence on her imagery. |
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SELECTED SOLO AND FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Afraid/Not Afraid, Collaboration with Pamela Chipman, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2019
Quadraphotique, Four Women Photographers, Roll-Up Gallery, Portland, OR
2017
Illumination - Capturing Light Without A Camera, Gallery 1of1, with Ross Sonnenberg Seattle, WA
2014
Scattered Light, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2012
Bright Ideas, Gallery 110, Spotlight Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Fugue, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Heeled, Dab Art, Ventura, CA
2020
In Contact, Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Juror Shannon Randol, Director.
2020
Photograms, Don’t Take Pictures online exhibition curated by Kat Kiernan. https://www.donttakepictures.com/gallery-photograms
2016
2nd Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY. Juror: Paula Tognarelli
Diffusion Annual Exhibit, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX. Curated by Libby Rowe and Blue Mitchell
2011
The White Show, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Printmaking Now, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2010
Food for the Soul, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
Unbridled Narcissism, Blackfish Gallery, Portland OR
Evergreen: A Sense of Place, WA State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
New Members: New Work, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
RECENT GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2022
Arts3C Make, Learn, Build Grant for Afraid/Not Afraid, Regional Arts & Culture Council Portland OR
(Collaboration with Pamela Chipman)
2021
Building 5, Residency, Northwest Marine Works, Portland OR
(Collaboration with Pamela Chipman)
2017
Critical Mass Finalist
2017
Regional Arts and Culture Council Professional Development Grant
ARTICLES, REVIEWS
2022
Featured Photographer: Jan Cook - "Fugue: A Dreamlike State" Analog Forever Magazine, https://www.analogforevermagazine.com/features-interviews/jan-cook-dreamlike-stat
2019
Fraction Magazine Anniversary Issue 122, http://www.fractionmagazine.com/issue-122
2017
Kat Kiernan, Photo of the Day May 19, 2017, Don’t Take Pictures, http://www.donttakepictures.com/photo-of-the-day/?offset=1495972800145
Elin Spring, Altered States Abound at Photolucida 2017, What Will You Remember? Blog http://elinspringphotography.com/blog/photolucida-2017-altered-and-abstract-imagery/
2016
Blue Mitchell, Diffusion Magazine, Lemniscate of Diffusion Volume VII, 2016, “Mise-en-Scené Invitational”, page 82.
2015
Julie Grahame, online review on the @Curator blog
http://acurator.com/blog/2015/05/jan-cook-chromoskedasic-paintings.html
2004
Erica Wheeler, Camera Arts, “Blurring the Boundaries Among the Mediums”, August/September, pages 20-23.
1995
Robin Updike, The Seattle Times, "Colorful walls add to exhibits at Farris Gallery", August 15, 1995, Page F1.
1993
Regina Hackett, The Seattle P-I, "Photographers frame their own showing in Kirkland", March 11, 1993 Page C7. .
Laura Brunsman and Ruth Askey, Modernism and Beyond, Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, Midmarch Arts Press, NY, Page 91.
1990
Exhibition Catalog: Art Works for Aids, Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA. Curated by Chase Rynd.
COLLECTIONS
2020
Seattle Portable Works Collection, The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle WA.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
1988-2013
Freelance Photographer and Grip. Staff Photographer with Chihuly Studios and Cultural Institute of Tabasco, Mexico
1988-1995
Co-owner and Curator, Galleria Potatohead, Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
1987
BFA Photography, University of Washington
1989
2 yrs Independent Study with Paul Berger, Photography Professor, University of Washington School of Art
© Jan Cook 2024