Janice La Motta is a visual artist with an over forty-year career as a studio artist and as an arts administrator. She has balanced a career as a practicing artist while serving in the positions of museum curator, artistic director, nonprofit executive director and as owner and director of a contemporary fine arts gallery that she ran successfully for eighteen years. Since 2020, she has been pursuing her studio practice full time. She lives and maintains a studio in Cold Spring, NY.


Statement
I work spontaneously and viscerally with each mark informed by memory, association, and the physical act of constructing the piece. What makes a work of interest to me is arriving at the right balance of intention, uncertainty and surprise.

In November 2020 I decided to create a newsletter as a way of remaining in contact with the community of friends that I'd developed during my initial years in Woodstock and the long time friends and colleagues from my forty years in Connecticut. As I mentioned in the first issue, the idea was simple: to create a newsletter of musing and things that had been sustaining me through the pandemic with the hope that they might offer the same sustenance for others.

The links below will take you to back issues. If you would like to be added to my mailing list please email me through this site. Thanks!

Red Sneakers no. 10
Red Sneakers no. 8
Red Sneakers no. 7
Red Sneakers no. 6
Red Sneakers no. 5
Red Sneakers no. 4
Red Sneakers no. 3
Red Sneakers no. 2
Red Sneakers no. 1