Janet Doyle “Untold Stories”

Janet Doyle “Untold Stories”

Atlantic Gallery

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Mixed media works, created with traditional drawing techniques that are later enhanced digitally.

“Untold Stories” marks the debut exhibition of Ms.Doyle’s figure work at Atlantic gallery, after a long career as a creative director, illustrator, and designer. In this series of recently created images, an individual figure is the primary focus, while their surroundings suggest something of their “story.” From a woman in a field playing the violin to a herd of ghostly horses, to a circus acrobat juggling amidst the chaos surrounding her—the figures allude to subtleties of feeling that are at once both personal and universal.

The pieces have undergone a transformation from black and white charcoal drawings to full color, many-layered renderings manipulated on the computer. All are printed archivally, some on fine art paper, while others have been output onto specially treated reflective canvas.
“My business partner of many years, the noted photographer Michael Yamaoka, has always encouraged me to return to my fine art roots,” says Ms. Doyle. “As a member of Atlantic Gallery, he suggested that I develop a body of work and partner with him this year in his show “Rhapsody and Ritual” at the gallery. These pieces are a tribute to his unwavering good advice and involvement, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to present these works—a revival of a direction that lay dormant for many years, while I pursued my design career.”

Ms. Doyle studied Grapic Arts at Pratt Institute. Her primary interest has always been drawing, particularly the figure.
Her long career in New York ranged from both staff and freelance book and magazine illustration to appointments as Art Director and Creative Director of Book-of-the-Month Club, at that time a division of Time-Warner Publishing. She also maintained a freelance design business, with clients and projects that ranged from book design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Henry Moore Exhibition and the Pablo Picasso Drawing Exhibition, to book design and advertising and promotional materials for a wide number of publishing houses. As Mr. Yamaoka’s business partner, she was honored to work with him as his design partner for many of the most prestigious Japanese companies, including Toshiba, Itochu, ITJ, and NTT, creating advertising and promtional materials, and designing mammoth trade show booths. Most recently, she has assisted him in preparing his fine art photography for exhibition, which has changed the way she looks at the possibilities of image-making.

“For many years my creative energies were directed to coming up with visual solutions for others,” says Ms. Doyle. “It was both a challenge and a thrill to be free of those constraints, yet I hope people will find in these works something that resonates with their own world.”

Media

• Drawing
• Prints

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