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Jane Filer


Jane Filer  •  Solo Exhibition

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First Thursday, April 1, 2010  •  7 - 9 p.m.

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Artist Statement:

My paintings are evolved from historical and prehistoric observations. They are my response to clues I have gathered from the most ancient to the most modern visual references available.  Blending this with the relationship I have with my own existence I create a fantastical story. The sense of story is used to provoke exciting aspects of being and existing in this amazing world.


I am in love with color and sensual surface textures on my canvases and I am in love with life.

-Jane Filer

 
Bio:

Jane Filer was born in 1957 and grew up in San Jose, California.  At the age of five Jane began to paint with a noticeably abnormal dedication. At age eleven the family migrated  to Western Australia where Jane first became acquainted with the ethereal artwork of the aboriginal people.  The mystical nature of this culture made for a lasting impression.

After high school and in response to the encouragement of her Aunt and God mother, Jane moved to Chicago to begin her art education.  However, the cold climate and windy winters drew Jane south.  She soon ended up at Southern Illinois University where she received a Bachelors of Fine Art degree with honors.  Jane Filer, then Jane Robinson, received the Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award, the highest award in the country given to graduating seniors.

Jane married John Filer and moved to North Carolina where she received her Masters degree in Fine Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Presently Jane Filer lives in a house that she and John built in the middle of the woods. This environment has proven to be very conducive to the creative fire that burns in Jane’s heart and she has made this place her home.  Her love of the landscape, animals and plant life that surround her daily are evident in her work.  Her aboriginal influences are curiously evident in her paintings as well.

In 2006, after teaching painting and drawing 21 years at The Carrboro Arts Center Jane retired.  Now at the age of 50 she has dedicated the rest of her life solely to painting.   In her honor the Arts Center has named the room that she had spent so much time spreading her contagious love for the visual arts “The Jane Filer Painting Studio”.  Jane Filer has enjoyed a hearty following of patrons, and a very successful paintings career with an impressive record of sell out shows. 

To this day, her paintings are inspired by deep contemplations of life, reality and her relationship to nature.  Her work has been included in numerous prestigious collections of corporate, commercial and private sectors across America, Europe and Asia. Included among these are IBM, Duke Hospital, Kevin Klose, President and CEO of National Public Radio, the American Embassy in Estonia and Eileen Naughton, Google New York- Sales Director, and former President of Time Magazine.