Work Catherine Jansen

1 work

1.1 soft sculpture

1.1.1 cyanotype
1.1.2 color copier


1.2 other photographic processes
1.3 digital

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soft sculpture
cyanotype

in 1969 jansen created soft tea set, scaled life, photographic, three-dimensional object using formula of potassium ferrocyanide , citric acid, developed cloth material. stitching imaged fabric , stuffing it, first use photographic process in sculptural format.

jansen’s innovations blue print formula culminated in first use of photography create scaled life room environment using cyanotype on cloth. blue room part of permanent collection @ michener museum of art in doylestown, pennsylvania.

color copier

jansen first artist extensively explore potential of electronic color copier process using electronically generated images preceded digital camera , computer technology. first scaled life room environment using process bathroom satin sink , taffeta toilet. installation part of permanent collection @ honolulu museum of art museum in hawaii.

this process using color copier, precursor digital age, evolved soft house project, five-room scaled life house environment, utilizing thousands of photographic images. while developing protocol jansen developed method photographing figure full scale on cloth, rendering three-dimensional objects on cloth. life size portrait on cloth, erika, in permanent collection @ center creative photography in tucson, arizona.

between 1971-1976 jansen awarded national endowment arts grant , 2 pennsylvania council on arts grants complete scaled life 5 room house using color copier technology.

other photographic processes

in 1977 jansen built kirlian photographic gold screen unit , spent several years exploring, generating, , utilizing kirlian photography on cloth fine art expression.

in 1985, photographing same object multiple vantage points , stitching layers of cloth together, created protocol making photographic image appear three-dimensional.

throughout 1990s jansen involved ongoing thirsty river project, in utilized 77 yards of fabric strategically laid out in landscape reflect light of rising sun. in light of sun fabric takes on new form , connects landscape. river has been taken in suitcase dozens of countries on 5 continents.

in 1995 jansen, team of students, created 75 costumes copernicus project. these innovative cloth costumes, considered wearable sculpture, used photographic imagery express content provide decorative elements exhibited @ philadelphia museum of art , part of permanent collection @ michener museum of art.

digital

from late 1990s today, jansen has been working digital camera , adobe photoshop create visual vocabulary builds photographs long format can express psychological , emotional time , space within image. work has coincided 15 trips india, , ongoing project called nada series.

jansen presently lives in wyncote, pennsylvania , spends 3 , half months out of every year in india. while there, spends time volunteering @ little stars school street children , orphans, working on nada series.