06/11/2026
Janet Werner ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ, 2026
Janet Wernerโs exhibition title, Landscape with Legs, follows a convention from art history that describes a pictureโs contents in terms of the subject paired with an object (e.g., Woman with a Parrot; Boy with a Greyhound). Landscape with Legs subverts this trope, upending various hierarchies, giving figure and ground equal importance. It conjures an absurd idea of a moveable landscape that could get up and walk away if it wished to.
The introduction of landscapes extends these inquiries, representing spaces that remain unknown and ungraspable. Werner stages her figures within landscapesโmultiple times removed from realityโdrawing on reinterpretations of Edvard Munch, Caspar David Friedrich, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. These environments share a sense of the staged, the choreographed, and the romanticised. Wernerโs engagement with artifice uncovers something evasive about human psychology.
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On view through June 13
๐ 372 Broadway, New York
Artwork details:
Chameleon, 2024
Oil on canvas
76 x 60 inches / 193 x 152.4 cm