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Jan Serr |
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Photo courtesy the artist.
A Wisconsin based artist, Jan Serr received her BA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Serr studied with well-known Wisconsin artists such as Schomer Lichtner and Lawrence Rathsack. Her early influences include Frans Hals, El Greco, Max Beckmann, Richard Diebenkorn, and Ruth Grotenrath. Serr works in print making, favoring lithographs, monotypes, and screen prints, as well as oil painting, drawing, and photography.
Ever changing, Serr's work examines a breadth of subject matter and themes. She uses bold, expressive brush strokes to reveal often quiet or intimate settings as well as precise lines and color to articulate the variations found in nature. While she often works on one or two series at a time, Serr is known to revisit themes with a different perspective and/or media. Her most visited subjects are figurative, still life, landscape, and self-portrait.
Serr has taught courses at multiple institutions, including most recently at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where she taught a two-week monotype course. She is currently represented by galleries in Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Wisconsin Art, John Michael Kohler Art Center and Racine Art Museum. She is in collections nationally and internationally including the Art in the Embassies (U.S. Department of State), Milwaukee Art Museum, Haggarty Museum of Art, Rockford Art Museum, and Ontario Museum of Art.
Top image: Ground Works #2, 2015; lithographic ink and oil on linen. Photo courtesy the artist.
Ever changing, Serr's work examines a breadth of subject matter and themes. She uses bold, expressive brush strokes to reveal often quiet or intimate settings as well as precise lines and color to articulate the variations found in nature. While she often works on one or two series at a time, Serr is known to revisit themes with a different perspective and/or media. Her most visited subjects are figurative, still life, landscape, and self-portrait.
Serr has taught courses at multiple institutions, including most recently at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina where she taught a two-week monotype course. She is currently represented by galleries in Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Wisconsin Art, John Michael Kohler Art Center and Racine Art Museum. She is in collections nationally and internationally including the Art in the Embassies (U.S. Department of State), Milwaukee Art Museum, Haggarty Museum of Art, Rockford Art Museum, and Ontario Museum of Art.
Top image: Ground Works #2, 2015; lithographic ink and oil on linen. Photo courtesy the artist.