Janice McDonnell is a Brooklyn-based artist currently focusing on painting still lifes. She received her training predominantly from the Art Students League in New York. Janice has had the good fortune of being selected as an Artist-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, The Brooklyn Navy Yard, and BreckCreate in Breckenridge, CO.

In her current works, Janice explores themes of memories, histories, and loss by using collections of objects as a starting point. She starts from a place of observation, creating small scenes from which to paint and embedding objects in black sand as if they were part of an archaeological excavation. It's as if we've just uncovered fragments of a story that are open to interpretation. "I often think about what we lose in a lifetime," she says, "and how we make sense of it in our memories."