News & Updates
Spanard Paintings Currently on Exhibit
- 11 September to 31 October 2009 "Four Natural States" - The newest Spanard painting, The Cake is a Lie, first in a new series of paintings Adirondack Erratics, and three of the ten Adirondack Calendars acrylic and mica on canvas paintings by artist Jan-Marie Spanard will be exhibited at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, in the exhibition, "Four Natural States."
Four internationally acclaimed artists - Ignacio Gonzalez, Joan Riccardi, Jan-Marie Spanard and Anne Vaccaro - exhibit their work; four artists, four different perspectives, one integrated exhibit.
- 15 August to 14 September 2009 "NATURE" - Three of the ten Adirondack Calendar Series Paintings by artist Jan-Marie Spanard will be exhibited at the Caladan Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the exhibition, "NATURE."
The paintings are: SoftWind, Solstice, and CedarMoss. NATURE is an on-line internet exhibition that will be posted from August 15 - September 14, 2009. After that, the exhibition will be available for viewing as an archive for a number of months. Caladan Gallery - Home
New Painting Series Begun: Adirondack Erratics
- 21 June 2009 - A new series of abstract trompe l-oeil paintings, Adirondack Erratics, is now in process. Envisioned as a series of 10 acrylic and mica paintings that explore the character and existence of the large foreign boulders of rock called 'erratics' that were carried on glaciers during the last ice age into the Adirondack Mountains and then left behind as the ice retreated. Often solitary, but sometimes clustered, unintentional travelers, erratics have become permanent immigrants to these mountains and lakes, left without transportation back home.
Spanard Paintings Currently on Exhibit
- 6 May to 12 June 2008 "Adirondack Lakes Artists" - The paintings "Forest Alchemy" (2006) and "CedarMoss" (2007) have been included in the 2008 group exhibition at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, May 6 - June 18, 2008.
- 17 June to 28 July 2008 "RIVER" - The first of the ten Adirondack Calendar Series paintings, "WaterSky" (2001), will be included in the exhibition "River" at the Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY from June 17 - July 28, 2008 The opening reception will take place on Friday July 4 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Exhibition information: albanycentergallery.org/news/2008/05/28/river/
New photographs of Adirondack Calendar Series Paintings
- 21 February 2008 - The final five paintings of the Adirondack Calendar Series have now been posted on Jan-Marie Spanard's studio website: SpanardArt.artspan.com.
Adirondack Calendar Series, a sequence of ten abstract trompe l'oeil paintings communicating the experience of a range of moments throughout the calendar year in the Adirondack Mountains, was begun by Jan-Marie Spanard in 2001 and is scheduled for completion in 2008. Nine of the ten paintings are now finished. These include, "WaterSky" (2001), "Summit" (2002), "SoftWind" (2003), "Solstice" (2003), "Finale" (2004), "WindIce" (2004), "SpringSnow" (2005), "Forest Alchemy" (2006), and "CedarMoss" (2007).
The final painting, "SeekingSky," is currently still 'maturing' and not yet ready to be released without modifications and further additions. The work-in-progress is posted in its current state on the website with the other nine completed paintings.
Several of the the Adirondack Calendar Series paintings have been exhibited in galleries in New York and New England. An exhibition of all 10 finished Adirondack Calendar Series paintings is planned for 2009.
The paintings were photographed by Michael Fredericks, of Ghent, New York.
First American Winner at International Trompe L'Oeil Festival in Italy
— May 2005 — For the first time, an American has won an award at the International Trompe L'Oeil Festival and painting competition in Milan, Italy. www.trompeloeilfestival.com Jan-Marie Spanard, principal artist of AlbanyMural, an Albany, New York-based group of artists who produce large scale public artworks, placed second in the May 2005 painting competition.
Sixty-seven trompe l'oeil artists from Europe, America and Mexico participated in this year’s competition. Each artist was given an identical canvas, a common theme (“Water: the deception of transparency”) and three timed sessions on May 20, 12, and 22 to create their painting from start to finish. All work was conducted as part of an annual public festival which includes musical performances, children’s art workshops, and tours of local architectural gems in the Piazza della Vittoria, of Lodi, Italy, a 12th century town just outside of Milan. Spanard’s painting, Water, depicts a photo realistic white porcelain sink, set into a marble countertop, the tap open with water running onto a book lying in the sink. http://www.trompeloeilfestival.com/CONCORSO2005/II%20premio%20Spanard.htm
The paintings were judged by a panel of five jurors including internationally recognized New York City muralist Richard Haas http://www.richardhaas.com/introfra.html who introduced the idea of visually transforming the facades of American buildings with architectural murals and went on to create works in many other countries as well. Another jurist, Angelo Lodi, is chief scenographer for La Scala Theatre
Milan http://www.teatroallascala.org . Past Festival judges have included Graham Rust of England, and Yannick Geugan of France, both of whom are well-known and highly skilled in trompe l'oeil painting techniques.
Cost Analysis & Project Budgeting Workshops for Artists Offered
- 20 May 2005 - Public artist and educator Jan-Marie Spanard , M.F.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., of AlbanyMural - Trompe L'oeil Public Art will be offering two financial management seminars: Workshops For Artists in October 2005 at AlbanyMural studio in Albany, New York.
Cost Analysis for Artists Workshop
- Identify direct and indirect studio and production costs
- Develop increased capacity for drafting realistic project costs and budgets
Project Budgeting for Artists Workshop
- Develop a system of price setting
- Develop tools for managing project expenditures and cash flow
Americans for the Arts Public Art Award
- 21 June 2004 - The Public Art Network of Americans for the Arts has announced that Jan-Marie Spanard's 30-painting work in Albany, New York, Hudson River Way LampPost Paintings, has been awarded a YEAR IN REVIEW award for 2004.
YEAR IN REVIEW recipients are judged to have produced the most successful, innovative, and exciting public art projects nationwide. YEAR IN REVIEW has four components: a conference presentation in Washington, DC, July 2004, an online archive of the selected projects, the Year In Review Slide Set, and the Year In Review CD-ROM.
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