Not Out of the Woods: New Works and Woodcuts by Gesine Janzen
On view through January 21, 2024
Yellowstone Art Museum
Billings, Montana
www.artmuseum.org
Woodcuts, Gesine Janzen’s tradition and muse, connect her to landscapes, places, sensations, and memories. Carved marks create movement and structure; they build textures and express emotions. With this new body of work, foreboding, sorrow, and dread predominate, and her point of view turns inward. The forest speaks to her of fairytales and mystery, where danger lurks. Children become lost in the woods. The trees breathe and move. Moss grows, dries, and hangs in tangles from branches.
[Image: Gesine Janzen, The Three Sisters, 2021. Woodblock print. 12 x 16 inches. Collection of artist.]
