Hell Dispersed

In September of 2023 I put up my large free-standing installation, A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno on my land in Cabot, Vermont. You can see some images on Instagram here.  I had it open briefly for people to come visit and then I offered to give individual pieces and parts of the installation to people who were interested. I cut up the painted Styrofoam bases that the figures were mounted on to make individual units that could be taken away. Many people nearby in central Vermont took pieces, and during the summer of 2024 my friend Karen Thomsen from Denmark and Dusty Haller from Rhode Island came and each claimed a piece. Here are some images they sent me of the pieces in their new homes:

Karen took a Usurer from the 7th Circle and it is now in her apartment in Copenhagen:

 

Dusty took a Glutton from the 3rd Circle. Here it is on the "secretary" at her house:

 

 

 

I try to keep a record of where my work goes out into in the world here in this blog!

Website and Instagram

 I haven't posted here on my blog for awhile, but if anyone's looking, I want to announce that I have been on Instagram since January, 2022 and that's where I'm posting current work and happenings. https://www.instagram.com/janetvanfleet/  

Most recently, I've been working on a series of FACES that are mounted on black bases:

You can see more of these on my new (ish) website, https://www.janetvanfleet.com/home

 

Click on the Faces tab to see more!

Fish Servers Find a New Home

Two pieces were sold during the recent exhibit We the People at Green Tara Space in North Hero, in the Champlain Islands. They look pretty happy in their new home!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A New Home

 

 

Spoons has moved to New York City, and is happily presiding over a dining room table there!

 

SNOW Sold

 The piece in the previous post, SNOW, was sold in the silent auction at the Bennington Museum, bringing in $1,651, of which I will get half. I'm a bit sad to not see it anymore (as I didn't have it in the studio that long before delivering it to the museum), but people often ask me if I'm distressed about having work sold and gone. The answer is "No! My artwork is a bit like my children, and we want our children to grow up, possess their own lives, and make their way in the world, not keep them exclusively tethered to us." I make work for the world, and am delighted when it finds its way to a new home.

Have a look at my new website, and the images of all the pieces in this series of People: https://www.janetvanfleet.com/people There are new ones coming along all the time!

Transient Beauty

 I have a piece called SNOW in the Transient Beauty exhibit at the Bennington Museum from November 26 through December 31. Artists responded to the artwork of Snowflake Bentley in a variety of ways.

My piece is made with wood, cascades of white buttons (representing snow), and a plexi-fronted box as the head. Here are some pix:

SPA Celebrate Show

 The annual Celebrate (Members') Show at SPA is opening today! I have lots of cool little things for sale -- dolls, ornaments, nail people. Time to not be serious for a few weeks...

I hope to see you at the Art Social on Saturday, Nov. 13 from 4-6PM.  Guests are required to wear masks.  (No refreshments will be served.)