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Jan Brandt

Brandt is an artist working in mixed-media, textiles, printmaking, and painting. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, both from Illinois State University in Normal, IL. She is the owner of Jan Brandt Gallery LLC in Normal, IL.Brandt’s work has been shown across the United States, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Boston as well as extensively throughout the Midwest. She will be recognized October 2023 as an Illinois State University Honored Alumni of The Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts.Selected Exhibitions:Toybox, Group Exhibition, The Illinois State Museum Galleries of Lockport and Springfield and North Central College, Naperville, ILSexism-A Touchy Subject-ARC San Francisco Gallery Juried Group Exhibition for Silicon Valley Women’s Caucus for ArtDegrees of Abstraction, Argonne Laboratories, Lemont, ILEvolving Illusions, Solo Exhibition, Illinois Central College Performing Arts Center, Peoria, ILBoston Biennial IV, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, First Prize Winner in Installation Category Hothouse, Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL Botanica Imaginaria, Water Street Studios, Batavia, ILThe Consilience of Art and Science, The Pence Gallery, UC-DavisMagic Garden, Solo exhibition, Open Space Art Gallery, Ottawa, ILSelected print and online publications:Create! Magazine, Creative Boom, Creative Quarterly, The Dialogist, Studio Visit, Poets & Artists “The New Feminists” and “Freak Out”, The Hindu, World Earth Day, “What Artists Are Creating”, NASA Artemis Partners to the Moon, “Lunar Codex”.

From Jan Brandt’s childhood spent on a farm, punctuated with fantastical visits to arboretums and botanical gardens, to the many hours now spent tending her garden, her hand made fiber components that form site specific installations have grown out of a lifelong fascination with the seasons and growth. Brandt is inspired by the rich, sensory experience of gardening and her memories of the four seasons spent on the farm-the vast collection of plant-life, the heaviness of the sweet floral fragrance mingled with the earthy scent of soil. She aims to transform a gallery space with brightly saturated colors and contrasting textures. Components of various sizes and palettes serve as specimens within this ecosystem, inviting closer observation. Paintings of various sizes serve as specimens within this ecosystem, inviting closer observation. Their surfaces, marked with dimensional fabric paint, matte chalk paint, and glitter, reveal depth and form composed of layered linework. The adjacent colors are made to be mixed in the viewer’s eye, echoing the textural and colorful components of plant life. To develop this layered visual vocabulary, Brandt has drawn on a diverse history of floral motifs, including the carefully observed details in 18th century botanical drawings, the patterning of Jacobean tapestries, and the flat abstraction of Swedish and Japanese floral design.

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