WAUKESHA – Janica Yoder, who lives and maintains a studio in Dousman, will exhibit recent photographs in the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Fine Arts Center Gallery November 19-December 21. She will present a free artist’s lecture on Tuesday, November 20, at noon in the Commons, Room 101, and the public is invited.

Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, and admission is always free. To arrange a viewing at times, phone University Relations at (262) 521-5445. The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center on campus at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha.

Born in Wisconsin, the artist earned a BS in art and MA and MFA degrees in photography from UW-Madison. In 2000, she received a Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship Award.

Yoder uses only natural light and photographs in color, placing fabrics around models to lend texture and additional color. None of her photos is re-touched or manipulated. Her subjects are primarily female nudes and nature, the former representing symbolically her corporal self and the latter a complement spoken in the same language.  She works intuitively, experimenting each time she clicks the shutter, she says, as she presents a transformative view, not simply a reflective one, of the exterior world.

 ames Jensen, curator of the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, where she has exhibited, described her style: “In her work, Yoder makes a highly personal, poetic journey which begins with the camera as a recorder of objective reality but shifts toward the subjective as she delves into the elusive realm of her own psyche.”

She has shown her work around Wisconsin, in California, Illinois, Florida, and Hawaii and maintains a relationship with the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee. Her work is represented in a number of permanent collections, including those of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT; and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13 freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges campuses. For information about programs, admission, or financial aid, contact the Student Services office at (888) 2UW-WAUK (289-9285) or visit the Web at waukesha.uwc.edu.

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