“My work has always reflected an engagement with the natural world: sensations of personal experiences, filtered through the crucible of memory, make their way into the paintings in obvious and sometimes unconscious ways. Painting is an attempt to describe the ineffable. For me, the act of painting informs the development of the image. The dialogue that occurs each time a mark is made, and then what follows next, is an attempt to resolve al of the rumblings in one’s head toward making some kind of sense through this visual language. What makes a painting of interest to me, is when I arrive at the right balance of intention of uncertainty.”

Janice La Motta is a visual artist with a forty-year career as both a studio artist and an arts administrator. She has balanced a carer as a practicing artist while serving in the positions of curator at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; as owner and director of Paesaggio Gallery, a contemporary fine art gallery later known as La Motta Fine Art, West Hartford, CT; and most recently as the executive director of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY. She considers her successes in her professional life and leadership roles due in part to her experience as a working artist. She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitionsthroughout the country. A native of New Jersey, La Motta is a BFA graduate of the Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT. Since 2015 she has lived and worked in Ulster County, New York.