Janie Askew

Janie Askew received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia on a full scholarship and her BFA in Printmaking from East Carolina University.  Askew has been featured in Creative Quarterly:  The Journal of Art and Design: a publication ran out of New York, NY. Askew’s recent exhibitions include showing at: the Bradley International Print Exhibition, in Peoria, IL, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Kleio Projects, New York, NY, MOCA GA Expansion Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN, Wellington B. Gallery, Greenville, NC, and the Rainbow Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY.  She is included in the special collections at Yale University, New Haven, CT and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

"In Askew’s drawings, human and animal hybrids, Christ-like figures, dogs with gnashing teeth and bare carcasses all come together in surreal worlds where viewers are confronted with a marriage of alluring textures and grotesque imagery. Askew believes that our primal, natural instincts and our desire to become more civilized are at war. Her exquisite and meticulously detailed drawings explore this concept by investigating the war between our sexual desires, bodily functions, nature and each other."

---Jessica Whol, Assistant Professor of Art at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

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