Janet Davidson Hues
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Janet Davidson Hues
Biography
Janet Davidson-Hues was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her BA from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC (1966), an MA from Columbia University in New York, NY (1972), and an MFA from the University of Kansas (1992). She is a former assistant professor of art at Indiana State University, where she taught visual and performance art. She has participated in more than 100 international and national exhibitions and has given lectures at various universities and art centers, speaking about her work and issue-oriented art.
Janet Davidson-Hues investigates and combines language and image in order to set up a tension between the verbal and the visual in her paintings and prints. She also works in video, audio, performance, and installation.
Janet Davidson-Hues investigates and combines language and image in order to set up a tension between the verbal and the visual in her paintings and prints. She also works in video, audio, performance, and installation.
Artist Statement
“Oftentimes, I find myself awash in text, punctuation marks, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and verbs as I investigate the interaction, the dependency, the clash and the collaboration between women and their language. I examine facets of language and linguistic codes---the structures, order, symmetry, rules---with a keen awareness of the literal, the vocal, and the articulation of words, the limitations of words, and the necessity of language. My work is as much about the murmur and the whisper as it is about the yell and the shout. I have realized that the merger of word and image through spontaneous improvisational application of paint results in a visual energy that both conceals and reveals the literary agent---the voice---lurking either on or just under the surface, something I’ve worked hard for a very long time to find.” (- Janet Davidson Hughes)