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Smoke & Mirrors

In 2009, Jan Serr visited India and from the thousands of photographs taken during that trip, 108 were included in her book, Smoke & Mirrors, published in 2016.

 

 

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Then & Now

A trip to China in 2005 was an adventure that became a very productive photographic experience as well. When I began looking closely at the photographs, I realized that I had images that merited being seen simply as photographs. As a painter and a printmaker I have used my photographs as a preliminary sketchbook, but it made more sense to present the China images as photographs. (Jan Serr)

 

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Ground Work

This new series builds on Serr’s explorations of landscape painting, encountering new territories in technical practice and perspective.

 


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Dance Moves

Working with mixed media, the movement of dance is explored through an array of tools including scrapers and palette knives.

 

 


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Wings

Using ink and oil paint, the motion and rest of birds is documented in abstract and highly finished forms.