J. Turner Sullivan wall art "American Icon Series #142" (#1663)

American Icon Series #142 by Janet Sullivan Turner, May 2003. 41” x 41”. Identified and signed on verso.

Janet Turner Sullivan, American, b. 1935

The Artist’s Own Statement:

I work in series exploring an idea, and then moving on to a new idea, and thus a new series.

For many years, my “American Icon Series” worked in the tradition of sculptural assemblage. In so doing, I collected, combined, reshaped, and reassembled America’s castoffs – creating 3/D wall reliefs, and freestanding sculptures by reconstituting the materials from which these long-abandoned objects were made. I worked to achieve new and vital forms from which a unique and artistic prospective was realized. In giving a visceral feel to America’s industrial detritus I am in essence a forager striving to create an alternate reality.

My latest series “messages” has the feel of 3/Dimension, but is worked on paper, with pen and India ink, combining poetry/multiple drawings/and collage. The poems are combined with the images that the world confronts us with, to create a universal statement.

Career Summary:

Media

Painting, works on paper, sculpture, mixed media, 3-D wall reliefs.

Education

Michigan State University, BA, cum laude

Selected Solo/Small Group Shows

1971 San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA – Solo

1980 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA – 10 Artist

1981 St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA – Solo

1982 Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA - Solo

1985 Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA – Solo

1986 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA – Solo

1988 Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA – Solo

1989 Gettysburg College, “Markings”, Gettysburg, PA – 7 Artist

1990 Trenton City Museum, “Elarslie ‘90’”, Trenton, NJ – 4 Artist

1992 Delaware Center for The Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE – 3 Artist

1993 Newark Museum “Search for Meaning”, Newark, NJ – 13 Artist

1994 Art Museum at Widener University, Chester, PA – Solo

1995 Noyes Museum, “Message From The Planet”, Oceanville, NJ – 24 Artist

1996 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA – 2 Artist

1996 Philadelphia Art Museum (Sande Webster Gallery), Philadelphia, PA – 14 Artist

1997 Philadelphia Art Museum (Sande Webster Gallery), Philadelphia, PA – 15 Artist

1998 Philadelphia Art Museum (Sande Webster Gallery), Philadelphia, PA – 15 Artist

1998 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA – Solo

2000 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA – Solo

2000 Woodmere Art Museum, “Philadelphia Sculptors 2000” – 22 Artist

2001 Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, NY – 12 Artist

2005 “1995 – 2005 Retrospective” Widener University Art Gallery, PA

Selected Juried/Invitational Group Shows

1972 LaJolla Museum of Contemporary Art. S/R/Gallery, LaJolla, CA

1976 Miami Metropolitan Museum of Art & Art Center, Miami, FL

1978 Delaware Art Museum, Annual Juried Exhibition, Wilmington, DE

1981 Delaware Art Museum, Annual Juried Exhibition, Wilmington, DE

1982 Cheltenham Art Center, Annual Award Exhibition, Cheltenham, PA

1984 Allentown Art Museum, 19th Annual, Allentown, PA

1984 & ’88 Triennial, Artist’s Equity, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1985 American Women in The Arts, UN Conference, Nairobi, Kenya

1989 Trenton City Museum, “Elarslie Open VII” Trenton, NJ

1989 Ammo Gallery, “Wallworks 3-D”, Brooklyn, NY

1990 State Museum of Pennsylvania, “Art of the State”, Harrisburg, PA (Years 1990 – 1994) Juried Invitational

1992 Carnegie Museum’s “3 Rivers Arts Festival”, Pittsburgh, PA

1992 Kotonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

1992 Holter Museum, 21st ANA National, Helena, MT

1993 Florida State University, “Florida National ‘93”, Tallahassee, FL

1993 SW Texas State University, “22nd Annual”, San Marcos, TX

1994 University of Delaware, “Nat’l 26th Annual Works on Paper”, DE

2004 Noyes Museum, “Art in Boxes”, Oceanville, NJ

2000 Sande Webster Gallery, “Absence of Color”, Philadelphia, PA

2000 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia Sculptors, PA

2004 Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin Marshall College, PA

Selected Collections

University of Main, Farmington, ME

Burroughs Corporations (NUYSIS) Lyle, IL

American Nat’l Bank and Trust Collection, Rockford, IL

American Restaurant Association, ARA Towers, Philadelphia, PA

Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Philadelphia, A

National Museum, Women in The Arts, Washington, DC

State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

ADVANTA Corporations, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Atler

Bryn Mawr College, “Scott Memorial Collection”

Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA

Penache Broadcasting, Bala Cynwyd, PA

First U.S.A. Bank, Wilmington, DE

La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI

Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Awards/Affiliations

1953 1st Prize Scholarship, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts

1956 Michigan State University Representative “All America Exhibit”

1967 First Prize, Michiana Biennial Exposition, South Bend, IN

1971 First Prize, San Diego Art Institute’s 19th Annual

1981 Purchase Award, Permanent Collection, State Museum of PA

1992 3rd Prize, Katonah Museum of Art, Katona, NY

1993 2nd Prize, A.A.R. National, Venable Neslage Gallery, Washington DC

1987/88 President, Philadelphia Chapter, Artist’s Equity

Bibliography

“Who’s Who in American Art”

“Who’s Who in America” – Marquis

NY Times, NJ Group Show, Vivian Raynor, Critic, August 1990

“Art Matters”, Burton Wasserman, Reviews, 1987 through 2005

Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 4, 1995

Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2005

NY Times, NYC Group Exhibition, D. Dominick Lombardi, Art Critic, 2001

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