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ALEWIVES RUN
3-part painted wood wall relief
10x50x1.25"

Split Second Camden Hills ©2005 Janto
SPLIT SECOND/CAMDEN HILLS
painted wood wall relief
18x27x2"
Split Second Camden Hills ©2005 Janto
SPLIT SECOND/CAMDEN HILLS (detail)
painted wood wall relief

SPACED OUT (1)
painted wood wall relief
10x22.5x1.25"

SPACED OUT (2)
2-part painted wood wall relief
19x28.5x1.25"


RATNA'S GIFT (1)
painted wood wall relief
24.5x32x2"


RATNA'S GIFT (2)
painted wall relief
22x28.5x2"

A native of Philadelphia, Phyllis lived in New York City for many years, attending Hunter College (BFA) and Pratt Institute (MFA).

A fellow of Pratt and the New York Foundation for the Arts, she mainly exhibited sculpture in Maine, New York City and state, California, New Jersey, Connecticut and Chicago. This sculpture may be seen in her barn gallery, open June through October, by appointment only. Her current focus is on painted wood wall reliefs.. Some of her work may be seen on the following websites:

www.hranajanto.com/phyllis
www.davistownmuseum.org/MAG/MAGbioJanto.htm
www.umvaonline.org/pjantohome.html
www.elizabethmossgalleries.com/phyllisjanto.html


Artist Residency:

2004
Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, ME


Recent Solo Exhibitions:

2000
Davidson & Daughters, Portland, ME
Gibbs Library, Washington, ME

1999
The Waldoboro Window, Waldoboro, ME

1998
The Melanie Moss Gallery of Contemporary Art, Augusta, ME


Recent Group Exhibitions:

2008
"First Traces," CMCA, Rockport, ME

2007
"Body Parts", June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

2006
"Maine Artists Guild", Davistown Museum, Liberty, ME
June LaCombe/SCULPTURE-"Coming to Our Senses", Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, ME
"Out of the Box", Organic Image Gallery, Searsport, ME
"Sculptural Elements", Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME

2005
"Belfast Festivo", Belfast, ME
June LaCombe/SCULPTURE- "Touchstones", College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
"Celebrating the Art of Wood," Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2003
"2D-3D", Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME

1999
"Inland Landscapes" Governor's State House Gallery, Augusta, ME
"Fire" College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
"Parallel Visions" Soho 20, New York, NY

1998
"In My House" Downtown Gallery (Curator), Washington, ME
"30th Anniversary Exhibition" Wingspread Gallery, N.E.Harbor, ME
"20th Annual Juried Exhibition" Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

1997
"Spirit into Substance" Maine Art Gallery (Curator), Wiscasset, ME

All images © Phyllis Janto

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