Biography janet fish

Throughout her over fifty-year career, Janet Fish has committed herself to the exploration of color and light in her paintings, pastels, and watercolors. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938, Fish received her BA from Smith College in 1960 and her MFA from Yale University in 1963.

At Yale, her fellow students included Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Richard Serra, a tight-knit group who formed an intense, ambitious, competitive group that motivated one another to develop and defend their work.

There, Fish was taught Abstract Expressionism, the predominant painting style of the time.

Biography janet fish artist

However, she found it difficult to connect with the art form and struggled to find meaning in her large gestural paintings. Encouraged by Alex Katz, her teacher during her summer at The Skowhegan School and Painting & Sculpture, Fish began painting landscapes, proving to be a breakthrough in her artistic practice.

Following her graduation from Yale, Fish moved