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JANET CULBERTSON
Long Island Landscapes Revisited
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September 25 - October 11, 2021
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An Environmental and Feminist artist for over 50 years, Janet Culbertson paints Earth’s diverse creatures and landscapes, exploring their beauty and demise through experimental techniques and materials. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania Culbertson spent hours canoeing the beautiful rivers and lakes with her father and brother. One day she witnessed the water turning a sulfuric orange as rocks and dead fish floated by. “That day I became an environmentalist”, she remembers.
After graduating Carnegie Mellon University, Culbertson earned an MA from New York University which enabled her to make a living teaching college art while painting. Her first exhibit, Elegy to Nature, was in New York City in 1967. In the seventies she had 4 one woman shows, received a C.A.P.S. NY state graphics award, a Pollock/ Krasner Grant.. |
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Culbertson traveled extensively painting the dark volcanic islands of the Galapagos, the fierce beauty of the Grand Canyon, the extraordinary animals of Africa and the subtle waters of Long Island. This exhibit contrasts the Long Island of the sixties with her vision of the Long Island of today…some of her favorite scenes are of Jessup Neck, Crab Creek and Shell Beach.
Janet currently lives and paints on Shelter Island, NY.
Janet currently lives and paints on Shelter Island, NY.
