Ballad of jane fish12/24/2022 ![]() ![]() Her fellow Yale students included Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Brice Marden, Nancy Graves, Sylvia and Robert Mangold, and Rackstraw Downes. She soon developed her own direction noting that "Abstract Expressionism didn't mean anything to me. During that period, art schools tended to favor the teaching of Abstract Expressionism, influencing Fish's burgeoning artistic style. Her instructor for an introductory painting class was Alex Katz, who encouraged students to explore the shows in New York galleries which expanded Fish's knowledge of the art world. There she changed her focus from sculpture to painting. įish enrolled at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, attending from 1960 to 1963. This was followed by a summer residency at The Skowhegan School of Art in Skowhegan, Maine in 1961. Fish received a Bachelor of Arts from Smith in 1960. ![]() She spent one of her summers studying at the Art Students League of New York and attended a painting class led by Stephen Greene. She studied under George Cohn, Leonard Baskin, and Mervin Jules. įish attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, concentrating on sculpture and printmaking. As a teenager, Fish was an assistant in the studio of sculptor Byllee Lang. She said, "I came from a family of artists, and I always made art and knew I wanted to be an artist." Fish was talented in ceramics and she initially intended to be a sculptor. ![]() įish knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue the visual arts. Her uncle, also named Clark Voorhees, was a wood carver and his wife, a painter. Her grandfather, whose studio was in Bermuda, was American Impressionist painter Clark Voorhees. Her father was professor of art history Peter Stuyvesant Fish and her mother was sculptor and potter Florence Whistler Voorhees. From a young age, she was surrounded by many artistic influences. Janet Isobel Fish was born on ( ) (age 84) in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Bermuda, where her family moved when she was ten years old. ![]()
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