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On the left, a collage of black and white photos of Murray Louis in performance, juxtaposed with pink and blue dotted fabric and blue and grey outlines of dancing bodies. Center: Against a white backdrop, Janis Brenner is caught mid leap around the waist by a male dancer. She is in an open stag pose, right elbow curving towards her bowed head, the opposite arm arcing behind her. Right: Assorted color images of brains, with photo-transfer technique of white and grey matter. Central Park shadow and flower photos plus dance photos of Brenner, are embedded into the fabric of the collage, creating a swirling, complex, visual and psychological remembrance of a personal and fraught event in Brenner's artistic journey.

Janis Brenner On Compiling Her Artistic Autobiography Through Visual Art

Some dancers write memoirs. But since December 2019, multidisciplinary artist Janis Brenner has been exploring a different method of compiling her artistic autobiography: collage.

Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán January 7th, 2022

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